She’s crafty: The dining room becomes art central in this house

Creating art at the dining room table

I grew up in a house that valued crafting. I remember that our dining room table transformed into an arts center more often than a place we came together to eat. As a kid, our home was also one that found household items to reuse in creating our masterpieces – not because it was cool to be green at the time but because my parents just didn’t have the money to buy art supplies. Cardboard became canvases, toilet paper rolls became the bodies of dolls, paper bags became the skin of our paper mâché creatures. Crafting didn’t just take place at our home. On the weekends it transformed into an even larger social occasion – crafts and snacks at grandma’s house.

My mother is one of 10 children – five girls, five boys, born in that order. So I grew up on Saturdays with my two dozen cousins and four aunts at grandma’s dining room table making the most magnificent recycled art. These memories came back to me this weekend because of this great story I read in the Bitter Southerner by Dana Hazels Seith called “The Ties that Bind” and as I continue the tradition of creating art at my dining room table.

Although I don’t have the company of my family on Saturday mornings at my dinner table, I still crank up the music, go through my recycled garbage can and see what I can bring back to life. Even though I have the loot to buy the art supplies now, I think my mom had it right all along – use what you got and see what you get.

I’d love to see what others are crafting at their dining room tables, so show and tell please! In the meantime, check out some of these amazing dining rooms on coldwellbanker.com.

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Main photo credit via Flicker user Vintage Cabin

Athena Snow
Athena Snow

Senior Manager, Public Relations & Giving for Coldwell Banker. Grew up in Sarasota and attended college at Western Carolina University. Athena wanted to wake up in that city that doesn’t sleep so headed to Madison Avenue to start her marketing career. She has been with this awesome brand for more than 15 years and can be found generating buzz about CB in every way possible. Athena helps to grow the brand’s position as the most storied real estate company within the industry and has led many high-profile endeavors; she was at the forefront of the brand’s pioneering smart home campaign, raised $6 million in two years to build 130 Habitat for Humanity homes, and led the Homes for Dogs program in partnership with Adopt-a-Pet.com that resulted in tens-of-thousands of dogs finding their furever home. She currently leads the CB Supports St. Jude program, which encourages the Coldwell Banker network’s 96,000+ real estate agents to make donations to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital for every real estate transaction they represent. In her spare time, you can find her either digging up a new area in her yard for another flower bed or planning her next travel adventure. She's the proud mom of three cats Jolene, Ziggy and Lucy.

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