Awesome Day One: A Crafting Comeback

Anyone who has known me for a while knows that I was once crafty.  I say once because, as I've already explained, the rush of life lately has left me feeling as if I had little time to create.  Not only that, but the almost yearly moves in the last eight years have left with me a very sad stash of arts and crafts supplies.

But when I stumbled upon an idea online that not only promoted DIY crafting, but also a use for all those Instagram photos I've accumulated over the last few years (and six travel adventures)...well...I just had to.

So I dusted off the old crafting cap, and geared myself up for a day of...driving.

Having no supplies to actually do the proposed project, a trip to Michael's was in order.  Which turned into a trip to Home Depot.  Which turned into a trip to a salvage store (an expensive, antique salvage store, thanks to my hipster LA neighborhood).  Which turned into a trip to Starbucks (crafting fuel, of course).

If you've ever lived to LA--or, realistically, been to LA--you know that running errands is NOT as easy as anywhere else.  It requires gumption.  It requires focus.  It requires map-reading (and freeway-navigating and parallel-parking).  But most of all, it requires time.

This is all just a precursor to what may appear to be an "easy crafting project" (which, to be honest, in any other lifestyle would be true).  In the end, after all errand-running and Mod Podge-drying time, the project took two days--but culminated in one Awesome result of handmade crafting success.

So with that, here are coasters fit for a the country's most hipster hood:

(And yes, that is an Instagram'ed picture of my Instagram coasters.  You know you love it.)