If you ask me what my dreams are, they are plentiful. One of my blog friends from when I first started to write for The Girl With A Curl is Odette, who asks this question on her blog as part of an anniversary of one of her fondest dreams coming true–flying to Ireland to start a life with her (then new) husband.

I don’t want to go on about my many dreams, especially the silly ones (to become a Jedi) or the non-crafty/non-culinary ones (to revisit Rome or dance en pointe again some day). This blog really is about my handcrafted life, and because of this, I’d like to write about what my handcrafted dream is. It is lofty. It is big. It’s the kind of dream that makes my curls run straight. But I will articulate it, because as Filipino writer Tony Perez once said, “If you want something to happen, write about it.”

And so my secret dream, borne of curls and cupcakes, is to open an Etsy shop!

I’d sell gifts that my hands can make: baby quilts, jewelry, totes, wedding veils (my grandma used to make them to earn extra money for the family), children’s clothes—if only I had the time to make all of these, I could distill all of my creative twitchings into a handcrafted Girl With A Curl Line Of Cute And Awesome Things and open that shop I’ve dreamt of for about two years now.

It seems daunting, but I’m working on it. I craft in hope every single say. And when this dream comes true, I’m going to look back at this post and say, “Oh, ye curly girl of little faith.”

May your own dreams be plenty! What is it they say in Tagalog? “Libre ang mangarap.” Dreams are free, after all.