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(Warning: this post discusses mental health problems, especially Depression and Anxiety, and the Covid 19/Coronavirus pandemic)
I’ve always been an artsy, craftsy, sort of person.
I’m one of these people who can never name their hobbies when asked, but actually has somehow accumulated so many hobbies that she can’t physically fit them all in to her timetable.
(Part of the solution to that is to make some of your hobbies into your employment, but that brings its own challenges.)
And most of those hobbies are creative in some way.
So yeah, I’m a big fan of the arts and crafts!
The pandemic and its various Lockdowns has seen an arts and crafts boom here in the UK.
Hobbycraft, one of the UK’s biggest craft firms, has been taking it all the way to the bank since Lockdown 1.
And I have no idea what people’s sudden obssession with sourdough and banana bread is/was. (But maybe that’s because me + cooking = disaster.)
What I wanna know is: why?
Why is there this sudden boom in people getting all hands-on and artisanal?