Catch Crafternoon Fever!
So my wondrous awesome friend Maura Madden has written the most fantastic book.
“Crafternoon: A Guide to Getting Artsy and Crafty With Your Friends All Year Long”
Maura reminds us of the delicious good times you can have just hanging out with your friends and making things. Years ago, when we were both living in Brooklyn, Maura initiated the first “Crafternoon” at her sweet little apartment. A bunch of excellent randoms, heeding a mysterious and adorable email, gathered to make valentines. She and her mom had made cookies and brownies and all kinds of goodness. On the table – and every other surface – was paper, magazines, string, glitter, stars. Glue and paste and tape. And everyone sat around for hours, people in our late twenties and early thirties reliving the glory of making a superfun mess while alternately gabbing and being quiet, serious and yet enjoying the delight of concentration. Not the concentration of a job, not the concentration of figuring out a bad relationship or the concentration of breaking down a 401K. Just the childlike concentration of beauty and love and friendship.
The book would be worth it for the cookie recipes alone. But it’s so much more than that.
Check it out here!: