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Crafting Legacy

Written by: womenslegacy
Published: April 3, 2015 -- Last Modified: April 3, 2015
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Hey Crafters, you were way ahead of the curve where legacy is involved, both technologically and visually.
The legacy we build is the legacy we leave.  The love that is poured into an activity with a child or for a loved one can sometimes be felt in the object long after it is crafted.
 
child finger painting ball of paper
 
This is why mothers often have a box of treasures on a shelf somewhere that is filled with  lumps of toothpick incised clay shapes and pages of construction paper covered with crayon squiggles.
It goes in both directions.
binding a quilt edge with a sewing machine
 
What you craft is a visual and tactile embodiment of caring.  Taking the time to make something beautiful is not only a creative outlet in a life that may or may not have other creative outlets, it is symbolic, and when shared, conveys a personal meaning a purchased gift may not be able to convey.
Crafting often celebrates the processes that have always been infused with love for the people who will enjoy the fruits of those labors.
hands shaping a loaf of bread dough
If you make bread, or sweets with daughters, sons, and grandchildren and talk to them about making pasta, or setting the table for Sunday dinner, or gathering eggs with a grandparent or relative when you were small, you crafts little hooks of meaning and experience upon which the child can latch memories of family, and food, and working with relatives, and family friends, for the rest of their lives.
What once might have been absorbed into life matter-of-factly when we were all creatively engaged in living during more agrarian times, can still be experienced though it does take a bit more planning.  The memories we make and the information we share in doing so are well worth the effort.
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Post 3, the Letter C, Blogging from A to Z  April Challenge
 

Categories: A to Z of Legacy 2015Tags: bread making, crafting, elicitation tools, family history, finger painting, generation, quilting

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