Art and Craft Confessional by Denise Sharp

Now that you have seen all of that paper folding, you would correctly surmise that I am detail oriented. My work has to be ‘’just so’. Much to my husband’s chagrin,however, I seem unable to apply to same amount of attention to normal tasks like screwing the lid tightly back on bottles or opening a box of cereal without it looking like a squirrel attacked it.

Also - kind of a klutz sometimes. In art school I managed to catch my arm on fire in the metal shop,I was the safety monitor, and I lit my apron {no flames} in ceramics, which is actually much more difficult than you might think. But that was years ago.

If I were to have one of those signs in the studio that ticked off how many days since the last accident, it would say many, many days - a few years, even. It has been at least that long. You know those tall insulated coffee cups that fit in the cup holder of cars? Well, I had a black one and it was the same shape and color as my spray adhesive. So one afternoon instead of grabbing the spray adhesive and shaking it vigorously as the directions indicate, I took my cup of hot coffee and shook it vigorously. It ruined a lot. Oh, and then I did it again about 6 months later because I didn’t throw the cup out. Good times.

So, now that I have divulged, what are your art or craft disasters?

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