The Rocker Crafty Chica rules

I am a huge fan of the Crafty Chica. She is an inspiration to all of us brown girls who love art and crafts and all things mexican! She is doing her thing. Imagine my giddy surprise to learn that she put a line out of all her cool crafty stuff at Michael's. So we went today. I had to pace myself. I wanted everything...the charm bracelets, the appliques, the sugar skull tote bag, the charm bracelets, the inspiration cards, the glitter, the paint, the loteria cards, the empowerment guardians. Yeh, pretty much I wanted to put everything in my cart.

But I practiced some self-control.

We bought all three sets of the inspiration cards, with the intention of framing our favorite ones. There are lots of different types of crafty chicas. There is rebel crafty chica, spunky scrapper crafty chica, strictly business crafty chica, the activist crafty chica, the cultural crafty chica...the list goes on. Turns out, I'm a total rocker crafty chica.

The Rocker Crafty Chica
Want to know her secret weapon? Music. She always has to have the speakers bumping as she creates. Rock, jazz, reggae, country, even classical--the tunes help clear her head so she can work her magic.

That is totally me. I have to work with music playing because it totally feeds into my creative process. So I am dying here, listening to Michael's mp3 player. But I can only hear so much rap and Justin Timberlake. Yes, I have revealed that my dear man loves him some JT. I am in dire need of an ipod so I can put all my "painting" music on it. Am I the only person roaming this earth that doesn't own an ipod? Quite possibly. We were checking out a Zune on Friday night. But we ended up buying some new paint brushes, more paint, some canvas and those crafty chica inspiration cards instead. That was about $125 right there. Sigh.

For now, I listen to project playlist. But I have to wait until the chil'rens go to bed before I listen to my gangsta rap and some RATM. Cuz that's how I roll.