Comments on: Crafty

By: Paige Jennifer

Paige Jennifer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:16:18 +0000

I think as long as you don’t make a scrapbook for your seven-legs-of-love cats, all’s good. If you do? I’m disowning you.

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:58:13 +0000

One the best post I have read keep up the work.
I want to get a Tattoo some day.

By: salem

salem — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:14:36 +0000

Once you give in to the craft store monster, it’s nothing but relaxing, giddy numbness.

By: salem

salem — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:05:47 +0000

I kind of love that you guys put the scrapbook together at Outback.

By: t2ed

t2ed — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:23:04 +0000

If you are scrap booking, I’m going to get right with the Lord.

By: kitkat

kitkat — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:53:24 +0000

See, I don’t think of scrapbooking as a spinster thing; I think of it as a hobby for stay-at-home moms–especially those of the Navy variety (those are mostly all I know). At any rate, it’s a hobby like anything else. The thing about scrapbooking is that it doesn’t actually take a lot of artistic flair (sorry, ladies), so it’s easy to get sucked into because you can make pretty stuff relatively inexpensively and easily. This is how knitting sucked me in as well.

At any rate, I’m glad it was a positive experience for you. I think there is a lesson to be learned here. Scrapbooking is less about the product and more about the time spent looking at and talking about the photos with family.

By: gorillabuns

gorillabuns — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:34:38 +0000

i started a scrapbook with my oldest, I only got around to month three and stopped. Baby books? I haven’t a clue if they have one or not.

i suck at parenting.

By: foundinidaho

foundinidaho — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:08:19 +0000

I don’t get it at ALL, still – but I’m glad you had fun with your Mom!

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:51:23 +0000

I’d like to commend your father for getting out of slides in the 1970s. I am well-documented on slides through the mid-eighties.

If you still have the slides of you with your dad and would just love to see the photos in a scrapbook, get one of those scanners made to do slides. My dad set my mom doing that with all of ours one summer and guess what? The scans turned out so well that she decided to make a scrapbook.

By: circe

circe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:08:36 +0000

Oh Kris, I so agree with you on the scrapbooking!!! My dear friend is so into this creative crapola that she turned her son’s old bedroom into Scrapbook City. *throwing up in mouth*

And this is a smart, talented woman who is a writer! Why why why this crappy nonsense I’ll never know. She’s married so we can rule out spinster but still.

By: Ulysses

Ulysses — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:40:02 +0000

Helpful Bit: You know, you can take those slides to just about any real photography store and get them scanned and returned to you in digital form. Or if you know somebody with such a scanner (know any professional visual artists?), you could bribe them to do it.
Unhelpful Bits: 1) Don’t offer too much for the bribe, because they’re probably going to turn around and blackmail you with the very same photos (how much do you think those early nudes would fetch on Antiques Roadshow? — no, wait, that’s not what I meant).
2) Head over to the other side of Michael’s and you might be able to create some jewelry for you and your sibs to wear to the memorial.
Helpful Redux: No one who feels like you do about your Dad could be good at the brief memorial remark and be true to their own truth. Meander, digress, tear up, blubber, break down — and appreciate that your very nature and presence speaks more about him than words ever could.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:21:51 +0000

You are incredible. I, too, loathe the scrap booking hordes, but I can sympathize with what you faced. Somehow, the memories with your mom and the presence of Outback make it even more charming to read about, Kris.

Well done, as always. My condolences go out to you, still.

By: Madame Meow

Madame Meow — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:16:11 +0000

Once you give in to the craft store monster, it’s nothing but relaxing, giddy numbness. This made me giggle.

By: kelsi

kelsi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:17:16 +0000

i love when you post. because not only do you make me laugh, you always slip in something that makes me think or (even more shocking) feel. to reiterate what everyone’s already said, you’re awesome.
and congratulations on your first scrapbooking steps down a long, slippery road to crazy-old-cat-lady-lane.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:53:58 +0000

Oh, Kris, as always you have such a way with words!

I’m glad you’ve come over to the scrapbooking side. Now if only I can convince you that I’m not a freak for still having my stuffed animals from when I was three…

By: KB

KB — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:54:36 +0000

“impromptu maxi pads fashioned from office toilet paper” hahahahahahaa OMG u crack me up.

I miss you. I am also happy to come to your father’s memorial service with you, if you would like more company!

By: Trapped

Trapped — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:26:46 +0000

God, you’re good. Very very good….

Write a book. I will be at your book signing. And I won’t accept the ubiquitous “Sincerely, Kris Wino” for my salutation on a first edition Kris that I will be shocked to learn is worth 6 figures at an Antique Roadshow in the not too distant future.

By: Ryane

Ryane — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:08:30 +0000

Oh Kris, I am laughing so hard tears are running down my cheeks. I have a family member who is the Epitome of what you just described: a Creative Memories acolyte with hordes of doilyed paper and a coffee can full of fantastical scissors that frighten me. Many conversations have been had about why I don’t get into Creative Memories…whY I don’t (read: WON’T) host parties or try to sell frames in my spare time…I’m simply going to let her read your post the next time she asks.

And, under the circumstances, I have to admit that it seems as if perhaps an extra bow or two might be warranted with this scrapbook. But rest easy: what happens at Michael’s, stays at Michaels. ;-)

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:56:11 +0000

you are forgiven for your scrapbook bashing and your dear dad is missed. every time i pass the place where your call was received, my eyes tear up just as they are now.

By: King Monkeypants

King Monkeypants — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:29:00 +0000

I wish nothing for you so much as that in a year or a few you find yourself preserving cherries or strawbs or rhubarb and look over at your co-preserverist and say “Shit, another damn thing I have to retract.”

Cheers to all things overlooked or quickly judged bringing you to joy again and again, K.

By: sizzle

sizzle — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:31:33 +0000

I kind of love that you guys put the scrapbook together at Outback.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:18:35 +0000

I was once dragged to a Creative Memories party against my will, a scrapbookers version of what I can only relate to from an evening spent embarrasingly checking out adult toys and a friend’s “Passion Party”. Whatever happened to just selling Tupperware?
I sat for hours in stunned silence as I watched a horde of women ooh and ahh over puppy stickers and scissors with wavy edges. I was most definately in the wrong place. Why I left with a leather photo album with acid free paper, a complimentary set of decorative hole punches and a bill over $150 I still don’t know. They slipped something into my Pinot Grigio, I swear!