There are certain things I’m just not good at and I don’t care.  I used to care.  I don’t care anymore.  It is just the way it is.  I am a single mom with a life outside my Single Momdom.  This is not to say that I abandon my kids in my own quest for personal hedonistic gratification.  It just means that I do have parts of my life have nothing to do with my children.  So, between doing the Single Mom Thing, doing the Career Professional Person Thing in order to do the Pay The Bills On Time Thing and then doing the Adult Time Thing, there’s not a whole lot of time to do the put myself through misery to fail at the Trying To Learn Something I’m Not Sure I Care About Being Any Good At Anyway Thing.

 Okay, I’m pretty artsy.  I’m also creative.  I just hate prep work.  This makes me terrible at anything that requires a great deal of prep before the final product can be realized.  I’m not a good housepainter because of this. My cooking lacks the necessary planning and prep all of the time.  I’d suck at landscaping, and sewing was, and will never be, my claim to faim. I have a mother who was an amazing seamstress and she taught herself…oh…probably about the time she was the age I am now or maybe just slightly younger.  My older sister has a certain knack in this area as well.  I sadly lack all the patience required to really pull of a good hand sewn garment. 

Recently, however, I’ve stumbled across several YouTube videos that are just the kind of thing I could pull off.  No prep.  No patterns.  No rocket science.  I could actually do this and be successful!

Here’s one I wish I’d seen when my kids were younger.  It’s easy, economical and earth friendly…and I could do it! Not that I would, but I could!