Sarah MacKenzie
Stories (3/0)
Create Your Happiness
Rock! Paper! Scissors! As an art student, single mother and lifelong craft enthusiast, the true empowerment that high quality tools brings is unequivocal. All my life I have been a crafter. I learned how to crochet and cross stitch around the age of 4 or 5 and have never stopped since. I have dabbled in all areas of arts and crafts, from fibre arts like quilting, latch hook, knitting and crochet, cross stitch, and embroidery, sewing and macrame, paper crafts like collage, origami, scrapbooking and quilling, as well as classics like painting, drawing, sculpture – metal and clay and jewellery making. While I did not start with the best supplies, and honestly am not at “best” level even still, the more in invest into quality tools for my copious crafting endeavors, the more amazed I am at how long I spent struggling with the more “sub-par” tools. The quality of my work goes up while the time necessary to do the work goes down. The ease that quality tools bring to a crafters’ life, even just proper, sharp scissors, is astonishing.
By Sarah MacKenzie3 years ago in Journal
The Suffering
Are they serious? They can’t honestly be serious. After everything the old bag put Ayla and I through, she still had literally no one else to even come clean up her stupid house. Why did she collect so many different things? Cows. Elephants. Hummingbirds. Spoons. Wolves. Figurines, wall art and of course some more figurines – most of which are made from something extremely breakable. The spoons might have some value; the collection is huge and some of the spoons are quite old. Do people still collect things? I can’t remember the last time I can think of anyone with collections of things. I guess all things are part of a collection of sorts – all your stuff is stuff you’ve collected and accumulated along your life. So, what causes someone to then micro-collect so many different things?? Who is going to want to buy 300 porcelain, glass and ceramic animals that literally have nothing in common with each-other?
By Sarah MacKenzie3 years ago in Fiction
The Heirloom
Blah, blah, blah. I am in physical pain from trying not to roll my eyes in boredom. Just order your drink and go already. Can you not tell by the complete lack of interest on my face? I have bigger and more pressing matters at hand than discussing your dreadfully boring… whatever it was that you were talking about. Your moustache is too long, and your ridiculous top hat might make others assume you are wealthy, but to me its just part of a façade. Maybe I should give him a drink on the house so he will go back to his table. I need to move this bracelet into the top of my corset so I can sneak it out of here before anyone notices that its gone. It almost feels like its burning my skin being visible to everyone!
By Sarah MacKenzie3 years ago in Fiction