Hi! I'm Ocean!
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👋 Welcome to Shore Thing Crafts with Ocean!
🌊 A Gen X crafting community — real, funny, warm, zero toxic positivity
✂ Weekly blog posts with actual tutorials and actual mistakes
😂 Gen X humor, hot glue opinions, yarn confessions
🎤 Featured guests coming very soon
🗳 YOU help decide what gets written next
I learned to craft from three remarkable women — my grandma who didn't mess around, my birth mother who thought hot glue could fix literally anything (it cannot), and my mentor Diane who's been opening craft doors for me since I was 17.
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📖 Post 1: Shore Thing: Ocean's Here — And She Has a Grandma to Thank for All of It
📖 Post 2: Riding the Hot Glue Wave: What Nobody Told Us (But Should Have)
📖 Post 3: Washed Ashore: The Woman Who Opened Every Door
📖 Post 4: The Fur Coat Bears: What Diane Did the Year the Railroad Left
📖 Post 5: Still Making: Diane’s 2024 and Why She Keeps Going
📖 Post 6: The Button Machine That Started Everything (And the FedEx Driver Who Will Never Be Forgiven)
📖 Post 7: Once Upon a Time, I Had My Dream Job
📖 Post 8: Coming Saturday!
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Now, pull up a chair. Watch where you sit — there might be a glue gun on it. 🔥
— Ocean 🌊
OceanNova Enterprises · Made with love. Seasoned with attitude. Your vibe… personalized.
"Hey, where are we going? And what am I doing in this handbasket?" — Ocean 🌊
Hi. I'm Ocean. 🌊
I've been making things my whole life — not because I chose to, but because the women who raised me didn't give me much of a choice.
My grandma put a crochet hook in my hand when I was little, taught me to chain stitch, and when I proudly chained an entire ball of yarn she pulled every last stitch out and handed it back. "Now learn a new stitch." No trophy. Just the next lesson.
My birth mother introduced me to hot glue and genuinely believed it could fix anything. She was wrong every single time and never once changed her approach. I loved her for it anyway.
And then there's Diane — my craft mentor since I was 17 — who opened up the entire world of making things to me. She's been making handmade gifts for my family for decades and every single one is a treasure.
Three women. A whole lot of yarn, hot glue, and life lessons. That's where Shore Thing Crafts comes from.
This page is for Gen X crafters — the ones who were told to sit down and make something. The ones with bins of supplies, strong opinions, and a project they started in 2019 they're not ready to talk about.
✂ Real tutorials — mistakes included
😂 Gen X humor — dry, warm, earned, clean
🎤 Featured guests — real crafters, real stories
🗳 Your input — you pick the topics
🎁 OceanNova Enterprises — personalized handmade gifts that mean something
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Made with love. Seasoned with attitude. Your vibe… personalized.
"Hey, where are we going? And what am I doing in this handbasket?" — Ocean 🌊
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