Crafty Drabbles by April Lowe images by Matt Lowe
Drabble: an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length. Drabbles are a bit like twitter - but instead of writing a tweet with one hundred and forty characters you tell a tale with one hundred tightly packed words. When I was a kid I dreamt of either being a girl Indiana Jones or of writing stories. I could almost always be found with my nose in a book, drawing or writing detailed story notes with the endless supply of the notebooks and pens I hoarded. I started writing drabbles to get the rusty creative writing cogs in my brain turning and improve my skills. Writing drabbles is a very different experience from blogging about my everyday life of crafting, baking, and geekery. My drabbles expressed the darker more emotional side I rarely blogged about. Though small, one hundred word stories can have infinite possibilities. Over time the drabbles I wrote evolved and became intricately linked with my crafts. I began to weave together my love of fairy tales, vintage buttons, lace doilies, drabbles, and coffee into strange little dolls. I've got two drabbles to share with you today... Pins
Desk covered in fabric, buttons, and lace. Spools of cotton, towers of paper, notebooks, pretty tapes, rubber stamps, and beads. All forgotten. The laundry towered in the basket, dust bunnies built temples beneath the bed. A spider constructed an intricate web from the dusty mantle to the bulb-less light fixture. Dishes covered the counter and the garbage spilled over onto the floor. Her hair was a matted mess of errant locks as she sat sipping coffee, fingers twitching over her laptop as she waited for the page to refresh. "Just one more pin. Then I'll craft. Just one more pin.' 11
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