Kelly Williams Brown Has Bad Times With Mental Health, Physical Health, and Marriage But Better Times With Crafts

You can tell a lot about Kelly Williams Brown’s life by looking
at her multiple bowls of tiny origami. Her “lucky stars” are
folded in a pattern that Kelly learned and then repeated over and
over and over to help her get through the moments of her life
when all seemed lost, when death felt preferable. There are many
bowls filled with these stars and they are all very large bowls.
There must be tens of thousands of these stars and she keeps the
bowls in easy reach in her Salem, Ore. home, reminders of how
horrible her depression got and how she got through the worst of
it. The title of her memoir, which is not a craft book but a
memoir, reflects the sense of humor that was with her all along.


Watch Kelly Williams Brown teach John how to make a yarn ball
friend.


Get your copy of Kelly Williams Brown's Easy Crafts for the
Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making
Things here or wherever books are sold. Visit Kelly's website
here. Follow her on Twitter @KWilliamsBrown and on Instagram
@kellywilliamsbrown.


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