Hello and welcome to Craft E. Bug. I'm Tammie, the owner of Craft E. Bug and craftebug.com. I wanted to create the site to share my ideas and patterns that I've started designing recently. I never considered myself a designer and certainly not a publisher. I have created a few plastic canvas patterns that I have sold on my own website and was published on Annie's website (I am no longer listed on their site) for approximately six months. I suppose I can now say I am both a designer and publisher.
I've been crafting since I was 3 years old. My mom would take my brother and I to Hobby Lobby back in 1977 right after it opened in our area in Moore, Oklahoma. It may have actually been located in the Oklahoma City city limits, but we were living in Moore at the time so it was Moore to me as I was just a little kid. Now this was back when Hobby Lobby first opened. They had a metal building that looked like a shop or warehouse and a gravel parking lot. It was a fraction of the size of the stores today. There was no fabrics, needlepoint, scrapbooking, paper crafts, yarn departments or any of the home decor that you see today. They had oil and acrylic paints, canvases, easels, brushes, some ceramics, stains, and sealers, and some RC (remote controlled) stuff, and a framing department. My mom always sewed and made a lot of our clothes when we were little kids. She crocheted afghans too and other things. My brother painted with oils and mom would get me some small little ceramics to paint and then she would spray them with the sealer. That started me out in the world of crafts. I went on to do latch hook, the intro to plastic canvas, cross stitch, Perler beads, paint stitching on fabrics, back to plastic canvas, candle making, painting on rocks, Styrofoam crafts, dabble in jewelry making, sewing (after I'd said I'd never sew again after freshman year Home Ec. class), crochet, and knitting. I still want to make soap too but I don't have the space for that yet. I need to get better at my polymer clay skills also.
I will be using this blog to give more tips and just general knowledge I've acquired over the years of crafting that I have learned. I'm new to all of this so please be patient with me. I'm working as fast as I can, excitedly of course. I have so many ideas and, unfortunately, there just isn't enough time in the day to get it all done. Keep coming back to see more patterns, get tips and tricks, and eventually some how-to videos.
Until then, make time every single day to keep crafting when the Craft E. Bug bites!
Just FYI, as you probably guessed already, that's not me in the picture below. I will probably add my picture at a later time though.
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