I don't do much with communities. I'm not on hyves, livejournal or facebook. Sometimes I feel like I'm missing something when all my friends talk about what someone-or-other has posted on their facebook, which I don't get to read. On the other hand I really don't feel the need to be found (by all your grade school friends! Yay...) on such a site or comply to their rules of 'web design'. I'm happy with my own blog which is one of the first hits on Google if you Google me.

However, some weeks ago (or was it days?) I found a community that I do like. Cut Out + Keep, a community of crafters. A place to post your crafting projects and howto's and when you followed a howto of someone else you can link your version to theirs. It has all kinds of projects from beauty (make-up, hairdo, nail art) to baking, crocheting and sewing. You can send messages to others, 'befriend' people, leave comments on projects, add projects to your favorites list, make lists of projects you'd like to do etc.

The whole interface seems a bit wonky from time to time, not showing profile-edits immediately or my avatar. However, I still like the idea enough to put up with that (and it probably is a hobby project since you don't have to pay for it).

I already posted two versions of my own: Plattie the Platypus and wool dread falls. When I think about it I can find lots of other projects in my house that deserve to be photographed and put up there. Like the cat tree we made, our toilet door, the cd rack in the kitchen, the pimped sahara tent etc.

It's not about your life, your cat, whatever but about sharing creativity with each other. I like that.