Such as all the good things in life, infatuations come and go. There’s been a couple of time consuming crafts I have been very much into in the past. Candlemaking, for example. My whole family has been provided a life supply of homemade scented candles. I would probably still be crafting them if it weren’t for my ex-bf who got evicted when I was out of town for studies and got all my material confiscated. Still fuzzed about it, not gonna lie. Scrapbooking! Always been fascinated by it, but no longer actively doing it due to time constraints and patience running thin. However, I am drawn to paper like a honeybee to a flower. Origami was the first form of paper art I taught myself. As a teenager, I weaved a lot of bracelets in duodji technique and then got into quilling. No, not the kind you make grandmother’s old blankets with. Quilling, making flowers and patterns come to life by rolling small strips of papers into molds. After visting Ravenna, I also got obsessed with ceramic mosaic, but that fainted out fast. I discovered the technique of shadow painting and combined it with calligraphy, which kept my creative ADD satisfied for a very long time. As for cupcake and pie decorating… I had to cut down on it because there is as much cake as one can eat. My friends, neighbours and colleagues started to complain about weight gain, so I quit the intense baking sessions!