Dear Liza,
As we have often agreed, learning curves are a good thing. The first of anything that we make is rarely the best… it takes experience and time to get the hang of things.
Languages… Rock Climbing… and crafts.
A few weeks ago I started making decorated boxes with Ruth Inman. I struggled a bit with shiny surfaces and flimsy cardboard. I even took a tea box apart to try and strengthen it.
I trimmed the too-deep, too-fragile Yogi tea box down and gave it some reinforcement with tissue paper and a strip of cardboard around the top edge.
Today was another Art Zoom. Zoe, (who isn’t quite awake yet because she lives in Tasmania and it is 6 A.M. there) , made such a wonderful box that I needed to take a picture. She used Velcro as a closure for her box, and put a nifty ribbon and stick contraption on the outside to look pretty.
I got inspired, so while we were chatting, I pulled out some wire and made a hasp. It wobbled around a bit, so I anchored it with glue and thin paper straps.
I need to let the glue dry before I do the next part, which will be to push the hasp through the hole and slide a tiny twig through to lock it.
I love learning new things! Some things, like languages and geography, make the world more accessible. And others, like crafts, just make it more fun!
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 