Pink of Perfection

Jenny Hart is, of course, the empress of embroidery. Julia is the master of fine cooking, M. F. K. is the goddess of well-crafted words. The ladies of Craft, Craftster, Supernaturale, and Get Crafty inspire and motivate creativity in countless astounding ways. In each of our efforts to live creatively, thoughtfully, and beautifully, there are teachers and experts all around us.

But I am not an expert. In all my writing and in each of our videos, I hope you’ll remember that’s exactly the point of this blog. If you, too, are not an expert, you’re in good company. None of us needs a degree from Le Cordon Bleu to cook delicious food or enjoy stepping into our kitchens to prepare dinner (although, man, wouldn’t cooking school be a blast?). Fine cooking, in my estimation, isn’t about trickery, slight of hand, or even accomplishment, so much as providing for yourself and the people at your table and warding off more than one kind of hunger. Likewise, you needn’t have your own Etsy shop to get your hands dirty making things. All of us can apply our personal brand of whimsy, imagination, and curiosity to the day to day in order to make the business of living more fun and more beautiful. What you’ll find on this blog is what I believe to be the stuff of small, everyday magic. And any of us can do it.

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