(PCM+) Crafting With Creative Friends

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“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” ~Albert Einstein

The skill and artistry of crafting take many forms, and you will find several of those at the sessions of Ponca City’s Creative Friends group. In June 2024 Krista Robertson and Donna Hingtgen formalized the group to bring people who love craft projects in a monthly setting that gives them space, inspirational ideas from one another and time away from other stresses of life.

Robertson is the primary contact and organizer for the group, and she explains that unlike many past groups that focused on just scrapbooking, any kind of crafting work can be done when they meet. She mentions they have people who scrapbook, make cards and journals, do diamond art, embroidery and quilting. Anything goes that is creative work an individual may want to focus on.