When I was growing up I learned to sew my own clothes for 3 reasons.
1) In those days it was the norm for girls to learn to sew.
2) Material was .25 to 50 cents a yard, which meant I could make nice clothes really cheep.
3)And I like to have things that are different than what other people have, to be unique.
These days instead of sewing I make decorative and functional pottery.
We had a pile of plain white ceramic tiles for our kitchen back splash. Since I still gravitate to different things that others don't have I put my artistic gift to some use. Using China paint I decided on a theme of birds, butterflies, insects and berries and started to paint.
After many hours and two firings in the kiln I had 10 unique tiles. That was last summer. Once winter came Dave had some time to put my tiles on the wall.
Now I have a unique kitchen back splash that I doubt any one else has. And all it took was imagination, several hours, paint and tiles. If I had to pay some one to do this it would cost me several hundreds of dollars of labor time.
So what do you think of my back splash? I can't take it with me if we move, but I can make another one.