Real Men Can Craft

Posted April 23rd, 2010 at 10:16 pm in Crafty Man

Guys Can Craft Too!

A Guest Post By Dudley Kraft

Dudley loves color and made this mosaic pot for his garden.

Hi all! this is Dudley Kraft, it's my distinct pleasure to be here guest posting about two of my favorite subjects on my dear friends craft blog, the Lowcarb Crafter, those two subjects being crafts and healthy eating. I think the two go together because it's so easy to nosh while you craft and sitting on a stool for hours on end sewing is not exactly conducive to burning calories. Needless to say my weight gain soon began to concern me and I thought, what if a person could be involved with crafts and lose weight too?!

I have discovered that you can be into crafts and still be enjoying those snacks but only if you choose the right foods to snack on. No matter what kind of craft you are passionate about, you could be a scrapbook aficionado, into paper crafts, fabric crafts, glass crafts, mosaic, scrapbooking, etc. you don't have to gain weight while crafting unless you make the wrong choices.

I enjoy my secret life as the Crafty-Man, the name I go by in the craft underground (Dudley is not my real name of course, as I would never admit to writing openly about my craft addictions under my real name.) But until I get the nerve to come out of the craft closet and face my creatively- challenged friends, that particular bunch of louts, admitting that crafts, not football!, were my passion, well, let's just say that if there was a TV reality show series, Is He or Isn’t He? I would be first person voted off. Projects that require sewing, scrapbooking or involve arts crafts of any kind are Verboten! to real men.

In other words, if a certain group of chest beating, testosterone laden, sports fanatic acquaintances of mine EVER found out about my secret life as a crafter , much less that I had “come out” and written an article for a craft publication, I would be banned from the local sports bar and ultimately be forced into moving to another city. An exaggeration you say? Well, you don’t know how serious these guys take their sports!

This is the first guest post in what we hope will become a regular series; Guys Can Craft Too! by the Crafty-Man of crafts himself, Dudley Kraft. For more information about Dudley check out his bio.