Love making useful crafts: Pins are my passion

Love making useful crafts: Pins are my passion!!!!!!!

( but did make some leather travel tags as gift for family which are pictured):  

I have wear them almost everyday!

Finding fun decorations, the right adhesive has been a challenge as I see my self not as a crafter as it requires skilled work! I do my best...

I have viewed "craft" as a technique, static, possibly a repeated pattern of steps to achieve an outcome. Crafts – traditionally – were about using a handmade process to achieve an end result, usually something practical, like a rug or chair or clothing.  Not to say that these items couldn’t also be decorative, but the main aim was function.  

but I think of myself as working in the "fine arts"...

Fine art or the fine arts that I attempt encompass art forms such as painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, decollage, assemblage, installation, calligraphy, architecture,  conceptual art, graphic arts and printmaking. 
These forms I develop primarily for aesthetics and/or concept
rather than practical application,

Art, in both traditional and contemporary terms, is generally about 

aesthetics rather than function. 

It is said: "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

!!!!!YOU DECIDE!!!!!

That burning question – “…but is it art?” – usually relies on some deeper layer of meaning being embedded in the piece.  Whether the artist consciously or subconsciously has ‘something to say’, it is there within the finished piece. 

My attempt at crafting..

  I have gone from using buttons, found objects, then on to leather, 

then wool, ribbons, and felt with beads,buttons and other detailing .

Love when I sell them and see others wear them!