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11 Signs You're Obsessed With Crafting

Crafting: that thing your grandma used to do, but now, it's your territory.

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Crafting is a crazy phenomenon, and it's not just for our grandmothers anymore. People everywhere are picking up palettes, old furniture, paint brushes and canvas, all so that they can recreate something they probably found on Pinterest—because buying something from an Etsy store for $150 just isn't the same as picking up your tool belt of acrylic paint and Mod Podge and going at it yourself. If you're one of these DIY-ers that we've heard so much about, you've probably experienced or caused all of these things:

1. You walk into a craft store at least once a month with an idea for one craft project.

You walk out with about $70 of merchandise and six new ideas for crafts you'll probably never get to.

2. Donation boxes and thrift stores are like a bad habit for you, and you can never get enough.

3. Don't even think about Pinterest.

Pinterest is where simple ideas are laid to rest to make way for unnecessarily complex ideas that you're sure will make your life more colorful, and hey, they're useful too.

4. Pinterest is also a deep dark hole where 10 minutes turns into several hours and six new boards and at least 11 projects you're going to attempt in the upcoming week.

5. And when you finally get the courage to attempt your latest Pinterest-fix, you definitely yell at the project loudly when it just isn't cooperating with your grand scheme.

6. There is probably paint somewhere on your body at this very moment.

Usually, it's the inside of your hands, but honestly, it could be anywhere.

7. You probably judge your friends' crafts a little too harshly.

It's okay, because you might offer to fix it for them.

8. Your friends are usually a little timid about showing you their crafts because they don't want you to fix them.

9. In fact, when you're on a new craft project, you probably don't have any friends.

We all know that you start a new Netflix show and then surround yourself with supplies and allow no outside forces to enter.

10. You're pretty sure crafting is how you also got your start on drinking.

A nice wine is a great compliment to your tears after having to start over on a section of chevron that you already spent two hours working on.

11. The start-up costs are usually so much more expensive than if you had just bought the project off of Amazon.

At least you know that what you're making is still somehow going to be better, because you made it and that's all the validation you need.

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