Crafty Cathy

I tend to call them "crap fairs" as opposed to craft fairs.  Could be because I'm the least crafty person you may meet or it could be because I sometimes wonder how someone could screw a couple cup hooks onto a wooden dowel and call it a craft.  Uh, I'm prepared to eat my words.  But only because I now want something from the world of the crafty.  Years ago my grandfather made a beautiful necklace organizer for my grandmother.  Red velvet (my grandmother's number one favorite color) covering a wooden shape (was it a heart?)  I think it may have been slightly padded.  Anyway, he screwed in some strategically placed cup hooks and my grandmother hung some of her never-ending supply of necklaces from the hooks - her favored necklaces made it onto the hooks because the whole thing was hung on the wall near her closet.  I'm pretty sure my mother is now in possession of the necklace organizer.  I WANT ONE!  I've seen standing ones, but they never seem quiet tall enough to handle some of my longer necklaces.  I want it to go on the back of my hall closet door.  I've googled, I've eBayed.  Nothing.  You would think some enlightened crafter would make a killing on the internet.  Nope.  

Does this mean I'm going to have to start watching the newspaper for (gulp!) craft fairs?