Make do and mend. Something I try and live by, there's plenty of appliances and household items here that I've fixed, alerted and maintained.
I was really pleased the other day when our eldest said she was bored and wanted some crafting to do. I suggested she mend my work trousers and she jumped at the chance. Later I walked in and saw her sat stitching it by hand, listening to an audio book.
The trousers were near new, but I caught them on a fence, be such a shame if they were to be wasted over that instead of repaired.
She handed them back to me, she was worried it wouldn't last, but I was so happy she gave it a go, and so far so good.
She's been going to a sewing club at school and looks forward to it all week, coming back really fired up about it.
I often say that crafts and producing something (anything) is one of the keys to being happy, and she embodies that, always making (all three are to be honest).
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