Traditional Craft Aficionado Gifts

A blacksmith shaping a horse shoe on an anvil.

"Everything taste so divinely artisanal."

"Happy Anniversary, dear! It's a gold spray-painted macaroni necklace."

"Lovely dovetail."

'It's good of you to go out of your way to show me what not to do, Mum.'

"She's a natural!"

Beyond Dante

"I hear you've got friends in high places...?"

101 uses of a dead cat: pincushion

"I can now fetch anything you want - on Etsy."

Bakery. The smell of freshly baked bread is the only truly perfect man-made thing on earth.

'I'm knitting a scarf for my son.'

Paper being carefully folded until it resembles a scrunched up paper ball.

"I see you've got a new cheese counter."

Artisanal Pottery

'Honey, I think you overdid the plastic canvas decorations in the bathroom.'

Cavewoman knitting with wool from mammoth

'No I don't have scissors you can borrow.'

Binge Scrapbooking: the morning after.

A man working on a model airplane

"I spent twelve years making this. Where's MY award?"

Cheesemaker

'Mail order? You said all the toys were hand-made!'

"The innocence seems forced."

Indian hollowing out log for a canoe sees woodpecker pecking his log

"Uh uh uh...that's not a touchscreen."

'Do you have any Cheese and Pickle?

"Are. You. Ready. To. Weeeeave?"

Toolmaking was always a challenge during the Plasticine Era.

"I can remember when all we needed was someone who could carve and someone who could sew."

"This one is a storybook Arts and Crafts home. The glitter stencils and macaroni art is all original."

"I only drink Arts and Crafts beer."

'I think of it as mending pants, not splicing jeans.'

'You just continue to grow.'

"So you think you can cobble!"