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30 Responses to “You Know You’re a Craft Nerd When…”

1. 

   Jaz
   

   01. Feb, 2010

   You make your own wedding favors in the shapes of skulls & crossbones and…toadstools >.< (Yes I did)
2. 

   Alyice Edrich
   

   01. Feb, 2010

   …when your daughter tells her teacher she can create any craft needed for class then comes home and asks for “blah, blah, blah” and I have everything she needs–without ever going to the store.

   ….when product packaging cannot be thrown out without first wondering “what else” it can be used for.
3. 

   sharon garofalow
   

   01. Feb, 2010

   You know you are a craft nerd when you look forward to when your child starts school so you’ll get to make dioramas and other projects…I can’t wait for the California mission project!!!!!!!
4. 

   limor
   

   01. Feb, 2010

   You know your’e a craft nerd WHEN… you find yourself cutting pita bread with scissors…
5. 

   Vickie P.
   

   01. Feb, 2010

   When you haven’t left your house in days because you got new art supplies.

   When you don’t know celebrity names like Lady Gaga but you have crafty crushes on Tim Holtz and Carol Duvall.
6. 

   Margaret Brock
   

   01. Feb, 2010

   When you BUY products that have interesting caps, lids, containers so you can save them for some future as yet unknown project.
7. 

   Paula
   

   01. Feb, 2010

   when your family cannot expect to leave the house without checking their clothes for: threads, bits of paper, felt, roving, metal shards, nearly anything stuck to their shoes.
8. 

   Karla
   

   01. Feb, 2010

   You know you’re a craftnerd when you plan your vacation around all of the craft/quilt stores you can hit on the way to the final destination…..A weekend retreat for crafters. The divorce should be final in about a month….
9. 

   Sue Castle
   

   01. Feb, 2010

   LMAO, just today, as we were leaving the grocery store, I saw a large washer on the ground and wanted to pick it up because it might be useful. I even laughingly asked my husband why I was such a magpie. I have so much craft stuff, but if something new comes out, I nearly go out of my mind with wanting it, LOL. Nearly anything I see, even patterns on peoples’ clothes I wonder if I can use it for. . .
10. 

    Vicki O'Dell
    

    01. Feb, 2010

    When you take off your shoes (and other clothing) at night and find glitter, ribbon or or other strange items in VERY unusual places.
11. 

    Jenny
    

    01. Feb, 2010

    VERY unusual??!!??? LOL!
12. 

    Jenny
    

    01. Feb, 2010

    OH! I’ve done that!!!
13. 

    Jenny
    

    01. Feb, 2010

    LOL! But were they deckle-edge or pinking shears??!!
14. 

    Victoria Sturdevant
    

    01. Feb, 2010

    You get stung by a bee while scrounging for rusty stuff and keep on scrounging!!
15. 

    Jessica
    

    01. Feb, 2010

    when your hands don’t know how to not be doing something, anything, even if it is just to sketch out a new idea.
16. 

    Nancy
    

    01. Feb, 2010

    When you dumpster dive at the end of the school year and rescue thrown out art supplies

    Or when your coworkers think of you when they are about to throw something away.
17. 

    Katherine R. Willson
    

    01. Feb, 2010

    … when you have to search through EVERYTHING in your clothes closet for something that’s not covered in dried glue, glitter, paint or inks just so you can go the grocery store without embarrasing your husband.
18. 

    iHanna
    

    02. Feb, 2010

    when your friends and family stop throwing things away and give it to you instead! Magazines, clothes, stuff =”material” for art and carft nerds!
19. 

    kara-noel
    

    02. Feb, 2010

    You know your a craft nerd when…
    …you save old clothes with stains if they are made of cute fabric because you might need it for a project someday.
    …you get excited for a wedding/baby shower because when your gift is opened everyone will ooo and ahh over your latest creation.
    …you use EVERY 40% off coupon from Jo-ann & Michaels because there is always something you “need.”
    …you have a box in your sewing room that is labeled “useless things I might need for something”
    …you have a sewing room because you make your 3 kiddos share a room!
20. 

    Tiff@ThreePeas
    

    02. Feb, 2010

    when you go to pick up your son from school and the teachers ask If I have been crafting again. (had fabric and thread all over my shirt)
21. 

    Laura
    

    03. Feb, 2010

    …when you get invited to go out on a Saturday night during college but you opt to stay in to finish the latest scarf and hat set you’re knitting. (Goodness I’m a nerd!)

    …when you choose to watch tutorials of new craft ideas instead of popular TV and awards shows.

    …when your significant other knows that if you’re in your craft room, they are cooking dinner, without having to ask.
22. 

    Heather
    

    03. Feb, 2010

    When you score a bag of buttons, thread or other seemingly useless stuff from the thrift store and can’t wait to get home to clean them up and put them to use.
23. 

    Hope
    

    03. Feb, 2010

    . . .your husband give you a kiln for Christmas instead of jewelry (and you’re more excited about the kiln than you would have been over the jewelry anyway)
24. 

    Glenda
    

    03. Feb, 2010

    …When you actually go out and buy something because you have no idea which pile it’s in. I do this frequently. I don’t think there is a place in this whole wide world for all my craft things.
    Another good one…
    You know you’re a craft nerd when you have at least three of everything but you feel like you have nothing.
    (I am having to hide my new supplies b/c he thinks I got rid of them or he doesn’t know I bought them. LOL What he don’t know won’t hurt him!)
25. 

    Jenny
    

    03. Feb, 2010

    Yowch! That’s dedication!!!
26. 

    tencraftyfingers
    

    03. Feb, 2010

    You sketch scrapbook and card layouts while you’re supposed to be paying attention during staff meetings.
27. 

    Carly
    

    05. Feb, 2010

    …when you wait all week for Friday night so you can spend it crafting (in my case, sewing tonight!!!!)
    …when you ask for (and get) a sewing machine for Christmas and are super excited
28. 

    Lisa Keck
    

    05. Feb, 2010

    you don’t throw out those old floppy disks you just copied to CD’s because you want to make something out of the metal parts. Metal top pieces will go into my braille jewelry and plastic ones are looking like a mini-mini scrapbook. Center metal round pieces look like a necklace waiting for beads.
29. 

    Jo Anne
    

    05. Feb, 2010

    you wash and save all the little net bags that come around your potatoes, meat products, lemons and garlic — garlic! — because they make good liners for crocheted stuffed animals.

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