I've been thinking about people and the things they craft by hand a lot lately. Just today, for instance, my son's girlfriend brought over a loaf of sourdough bread - shaped like a pumpkin - that she baked herself. One of our daughters brought a mocha cheesecake she made. Another son baked our pumpkin pie. The floor in our family room was designed, installed and finished by my husband, who does hardwood floors for a living. I plan to hand stitch some felt ornaments as Christmas gifts this year (I did it last year also). Just some examples. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone puts so much of themselves into something, that they took the time and effort to create something, whether by necessity or simple a desire to make something beautiful.
Hi Melisa, thank you so much for sharing. These are all such special examples. Next to nothing beats the handmade, and it's the best resistance we have to the emptiness & negativity brought into the world by poor-quality, profit-hungry, machine-made junk!
Yes, nothing beats the human touch - and I do notice a difference between something one of a kind, made with quality materials and craftsmanship - versus mass-produced stuff.
Thank you Melisa for engaging, I love connecting with people who values these topics. I think so many of use feel that difference between the one-of-a-kind and the machine-made, but might not always reflect like you and I on the broader ramifications of habitually buying the machine-made. Sure, sometimes it's necessary if it's the only thing that's accessible and/or affordable, but for whatever we can't make ourselves, many quality items can be found secondhand these days for reasonable prices, and I think the effort is worth put into searching for them. Not to mention that they tend to last much longer, too!
I've been thinking about people and the things they craft by hand a lot lately. Just today, for instance, my son's girlfriend brought over a loaf of sourdough bread - shaped like a pumpkin - that she baked herself. One of our daughters brought a mocha cheesecake she made. Another son baked our pumpkin pie. The floor in our family room was designed, installed and finished by my husband, who does hardwood floors for a living. I plan to hand stitch some felt ornaments as Christmas gifts this year (I did it last year also). Just some examples. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone puts so much of themselves into something, that they took the time and effort to create something, whether by necessity or simple a desire to make something beautiful.
Hi Melisa, thank you so much for sharing. These are all such special examples. Next to nothing beats the handmade, and it's the best resistance we have to the emptiness & negativity brought into the world by poor-quality, profit-hungry, machine-made junk!
Yes, nothing beats the human touch - and I do notice a difference between something one of a kind, made with quality materials and craftsmanship - versus mass-produced stuff.
Thank you Melisa for engaging, I love connecting with people who values these topics. I think so many of use feel that difference between the one-of-a-kind and the machine-made, but might not always reflect like you and I on the broader ramifications of habitually buying the machine-made. Sure, sometimes it's necessary if it's the only thing that's accessible and/or affordable, but for whatever we can't make ourselves, many quality items can be found secondhand these days for reasonable prices, and I think the effort is worth put into searching for them. Not to mention that they tend to last much longer, too!
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