Welcome to my arts and crafts collection. For most of my life, I thought of myself as an engineer. A guy who builds and fixes computers and other technology items, rather than someone creative. While I was married to a very artistic person for many years, I always thought of her as the creative one, and not myself. Even when I became a writer in 1998, after starting my website PCPhobia, I still didn’t think of myself as creative, even though I created a significant amount of content, which (when I became a national-level journalist around 2000) was consumed by hundreds of thousands of people. My first creative streak came about age 17, when I started getting deeper into photography. My high school had an art department, and even though I wasn’t in it (I was a Chemistry major), I was well known and liked by school staff, and so I was allowed free access to their studio, where I practiced developing film. I practiced various techniques for photo effects, some with just my camera, othe