Sing a song of forgetting/ A song of the way things were not/ Sing of what's lost to you/ Of times that you never knew

So, I'm conflicted about this. One hand, I desperately want to be crafty. And to have a really well-put-together apartment. So desperately. Plus I do have a router that I'd love to conceal. Other hand, I have issues with defacing books. Serious issues.

Sigh.

At any rate, this reminded me of this series of craft books that I worked through as a child. You could do crafts to simulate things made, used, worn, lived in, played with, or eaten by people at a specific historical time and a specific place (for the most part). They were called More Than Moccasins, Colonial Kids, Westward Ho, and a medieval one that I can't remember or find on Amazon. It's like bringing together my love of books and of crafts!

For whatever reason, though, I didn't tend to read the directions. I just looked at the pictures and tried to emulate. Mixed results.