My name is Manuela, I am from Florence (Italy), but a few years ago my husband and I decided to move out to the Chianti hills, in an old country house that we restored with enthusiasm and love...
It is here, possibly inspired by the beauty of the landscape,
that I discovered my love for creative hobbies....

I started Creare Country, my very first experience on the web, almost one year ago. At first it was just a photo gallery of my crafts, a way to share with others my passion for decoupage, stenciling, dough crafts....

I did not expect that Creare Country would have given me the possibility to establish so many virtual though real and alive contacts, to get to know so many people with whom to talk of techniques and crafts but also of deeper and more personal matters...

Those individual relationships will continue and will hopefully expand to other new friends, but I would like that Creare Country could also give the possibility to interact, to meet and to talk all together as a group....

I do believe that each one of us can contribute to expand the knowledge of all and to spread more and more the passion for this magic world which has taken me by hand and has introduced me to the pleasure, so gratifying and so relaxing, of creating crafts which are totally personal and absolutely unique. 

With that spirit in mind, I opened the Creare Country Forum,
a virtual meeting point for people who love creative hobbies where everyone can share ideas and information, ask questions or give useful tips, chat and make new friends...
I trust that you will be part of the group,
and that you will help make "our" Forum interesting and alive!

Manuela