Crafty- with art and other things

( Yep, I am absolutely pretending to be a vampire here at a film festival...)

One of the saddest stories I ever heard was when Callum told me he stopped having stockings last year for Christmas... seriously, my heart feels for this situation. I can not imagine a stockingless Christmas- not because I am all about the gifts... but because Christmas morning to come down the stairs and see my stocking gracefully laying with my named perfectly stitched in gold letters is a feeling that trumps most of the other feelings I have.... it's that intense.

So this year, I promised Callum he would not have a stockingless Christmas- so I am currently making a stocking for a 20 year old boy, really my life is hilarious sometimes! Anyways, I have been trying to be very crafty about this stocking- making it better than your average ho-hum or the over done glitzy stockings that looks like christmas threw up all over it in glitter. I am really trying to avoid both of those situations. Just call me Crafty Katie- I think it's fitting!

Ironically enough when I told Callum I was being crafty he replied with... "arts and crafty or crafty like a fox?" After I muttered to him something about me being arts and crafty and he told me how cunning he was like a fox ( just call him cocky callum...kidding =] )I really began to think about what it means to be crafty.

I'm not talking crafty as in a bunch of 30 year old pregnant women sitting around scrap booking about their marriages... woah stereotyping.... but seriously. I am talking prime time crafty. I am talking CIA , long black trench coats, Sun Tzu Art of War crafty. That is crafty.

Now, I have had my fair share of crafty times before, but these happen to not be my shining moment I'd imagine. And although some days being devious and wearing leather and black eye liner and being mysterious and crafty sound rather appealing and alluring... I am far from crafty. Which is A okay with me!

Why is it that we all have this seductive draw to dark, mysterious, cunningly artful crafters. I mean, that idea sounds so...hot. But in reality, being crafty is being cunningly artful at lying and giving out false ideas... not so hot. We are drawn to this idea that is actually not a very becoming trait if you want to actually have a connection with that person.

I think what may be the true allure though, is the idea that we could be the one to finally tame the cunning... that just one lock of the eyes and the crafty, mysterious, tall, dark, and handsome with eyes as deep and tortured as his past turns honest just for us! How romantic! I think it's not that we actually want to be with a crafty and skilled deceiver...but we want to be able to turn that person into mush and daisies( which I also love by the way) with one glance in his direction.

I think this is why books such as Twilight are so popular... not because the author is a brilliant writer or sheds truth on something... no it's the idea that this girl turned a vampire ( tortured soul) into her lover. Plain and simple... we feel powerful when we tame someone. It's the epic good girl turns bad boy good scenario... and it is so romantic and dreamy... in thought.

In real life, the tortured soul is not going to feel peachy keen on anyone who just gives him a glance of longing...in fact he will have the upper hand in this situation! He can be crafty and use this person- playing to their weakness. Because that is what the crafty one does... he uses his lies for control and the upper hand.

So in conclusion... I no longer want to be crafty like a fox! I will be very satisfied being little cute Katie who gets overly excited about everything and spends her days singing everywhere she goes. I prefer to be arts and crafty! Ah, a toast.

To not being crafty! Here, Here!