{"id":3750,"date":"2009-04-20T03:47:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T10:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2009-04-18T16:10:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T23:10:02","slug":"bad-jewelry-funny-crafts-story-mouse-droppings-necklace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/bad-jewelry-funny-crafts-story-mouse-droppings-necklace\/3750\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Jewelry – Funny Crafts Story About a Mouse Droppings Necklace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crafty<\/p>\n

Mistakes are Part of the Learning Process. Learn to Laugh Right Through Them!
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today’s special guest is Sharon L. Shannon, The Crafty Bag Lady (a *very* funny story teller). She describes herself as, “Wife, mother, grandmother,<\/span> world-class procrastinator, hoarder of art materials, sometimes poet, mostly late and always blessed!” Love it!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you removed “grandmother” from the list and changed photos, Sharon’s bio would basically work for me too! That’s probably why I get her humor so much.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I came across her blog the other day in a Google Alert for jewelry. Since I get a lot of these news alerts, it was the title of the post that caught my eye and caused me to go check her out:<\/span><\/p>\n

Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to make bad jewelry<\/a>
\n(how could you not click on something like this!?)<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, I don’t know if it was because of lack of sleep or whether I could just totally relate to her crafting experiences, but something inside me ‘snapped’ as I was reading it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Started laughing so hard that halfway through the post I had to get up to go the bathroom for fear I’d pee my pants! By the time I got to her Fimo Jewelry Project rightly named, ‘Cheerios, pepperoni and mouse droppings necklace’, I was laughing so hard, the tears were squeezing out the corners of my eyes!<\/span><\/p>\n

Now who knows, you may go read the post and think I’m a little nuts in describing it as being that funny. My family certainly looked at me strange when I tried to explain the jewelry disasters and Sharon’s way of describing them, in between loud guffaws and gut wrenching laughter! In fact I think I saw my daughter roll her eyes and my son say, “It really doesn’t sound that funny mom.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess you’d understand, if you knew how much I’ve been through as a crafter. How many projects have gone terribly wrong and just how many creative ideas got worse and worse as I tried to fix them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sharon understands! I bet a few of you others out there understand too! Even if you don’t, I thought you guys would all enjoy reading this post. Especially if you are a beginner and have made some hideous creations of your own.<\/span><\/p>\n

It can be a huge sense of relief to laugh a little at yourself and enjoy that fact that the crafting process has it’s beauty and it’s tragedies. But man… isn’t it fun along the way!<\/span><\/p>\n

BTW… If you really would prefer to have a lot less hideous polymer clay beads and a lot more beautiful ones, you really should consider buying my Polymer Clay Bead Making Course<\/a>. However, it would mean a lot less laughing at yourself, and a lot more patting yourself on the back. So you’ll have to take that into consideration :-)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cindy\"Polymer<\/p>\n

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