Thatās so good to hear! @Zoe_Lau
Yes! Our mothers have such a way in influencing our future habits and nurturing artistic talents early on is a wonderful thing. @Che_Ming
This is such a wonderful story. Now I know why your artistic talents are so many. I am happy you have these great memories. @ThaoNguyen
Thank you so much 
At least she is doing something! My mother-in-law was telling me tonight how much she has enjoyed building her sunflower kit. She said it keeps her thinking and is even planning on getting another very soon.
That is SO awesome! I love that my mother stays busy with her jigsawsā¦and also crosswords, logic puzzles, etc. She does Wordle every single day. 
Thatās great! Itās good that she is still trying to keep her mind active! Much better than sitting in a chair watching tv all day
This makes me happyā¦and she is still staying active with gardening. In this Texas heat, I Can NOT. hot donald duck GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY
This model is the one that makes me happiest about shared crafts. Elsaās Tailoring. My mother has done many jobs over the course of her 84 years. She sewed all of our clothes (for FOUR girls) when she was a housewife and I learned SO much from her. I joined 4H and at age 10 won a blue ribbon for the dress I had made. Nine years later, I made my own wedding dress and veil for hat.
I hope that you are able to have that same experience again. The typewriter is an amazing model. @300
These really are a true representaion of all of those wonderful characteristics in your mother @Wenbare
This is such a lovely story of bonding time. Thanks for sharing @Pola
The pinball machine is the perfect one to have several people work onā¦and later to be enjoyed by so many. Thanks for sharing your story @Dogdoc
My mother did the sameā¦and so I chose the same kit as you did. @Suzanne_Jones
This is a wonderful idea. Thanks for sharing @fangphattha
Ceramics sounds like a fun thing to do together. My former mother in law did ceramicsā¦but we didnāt live close enough to spend ant time doing it together @Ladyoflarkspur
This little setting is so cozy and pairs perfectly with the leisure time tea room. @samca
I have always been the artistic child in my family, and art was one of the ways I showed love. Whether it was handmade greeting cards for my parents, poems I wrote, or drawings I made for them, I was always creating something. But if I had to choose one crafting memory that stayed with me, it would be building miniature houses.
My dad is an engineer and has always been deeply passionate about his work. Because of his busy schedule, there were times when I rarely got to see him. But one thing that always made me feel close to him was our shared love for architecture and the joy of planning how houses are built.
It started with the simple phase many children go through: building small houses and townships with blocks. Whenever my buildings fell down or wobbled, my dad would gently explain what was happening and suggest how I could fix the structure. Somehow, he would always connect my little buildings to dams, bridges, and famous monuments around us. It made me feel like the tiny structures I was building were important.
He also encouraged me to draw outlines of the houses I wanted to build before I started. Sometimes, he would even show me his own plans and talk to me about the progress of his work. Looking back, I think this was the first time I connected art and science. I began to understand that even the most practical things around us can involve creativity, beauty, and imagination.
From building houses with blocks, I slowly moved on to making my own dollhouses. āDollhouseā might be a generous word for them: they were mostly made from packaging cardboard boxes! I would paste boxes together to create separate rooms, paint the walls, and use cardboard sheets to divide bigger boxes into floors. The floors were rarely sturdy, so that always required some problem-solving. Then I would add toy appliances and tiny pieces of furniture. I even made a small shelf with tiny books for my Barbies.
It was nothing fancy, but it gave me so much joy. I loved planning the layout with my dad and pretending to be a little interior designer. I used rectangular erasers, toothpicks, empty matchboxes, and anything else I could find to make miniature objects. I was my dadās little engineer, and when it came to my dollhouse, we were ācolleagues.ā
Looking back, I think my love for miniatures truly began with the desire to give my Barbie everything I had at home. I wish I had a picture of that house now. It is probably still somewhere in the garage.
Twenty years or so later, I do not have a child of my own, but I have a six-year-old nephew whom I love dearly. About a year ago, we found him building houses with his blocks, and I saw the exact child I used to be. Now my dad and I build things with him and help him make house plans. Coincidentally, he builds houses and schools for his superhero toys, just like I did. I can see the happiness on my dadās face knowing that he has passed on his love for architecture to two generations of children. I am sharing a picture of a house my nephew built recently. Our rooms are adjacent in this house!
If I had to choose a Robotime kit that represents this memory, I would choose one of the Rolife miniature house kits, especially a cozy house, bookshop, cafƩ, or Christmas house miniature. These kits capture exactly what made my childhood crafting so special: planning tiny rooms, arranging small details, imagining stories inside the space, and turning simple pieces into a little world.
I have already started buying simpler architecture kits for my nephew, and I would love to introduce him to Rolife kits as he gets older, with supervision of course. I think he would enjoy the small details, the lights, and the feeling of building something beautiful with his own hands. I also hope these kits help him learn about scale, proportion, design, and eventually even engineering through crafts.
Thank you, Robotime, for helping me carry this family tradition into the next generation. And excuse me for my long post 
What a great memories and what a great way to honor those memories!
Wow! What a great tradition to carry! We sometimes forget how impressionable our children are, and how closely they watch us when we arenāt looking. The best gauge to see how well we are raising them, is to see how much they mimic us, good or bad (so take care in what they see, LOL!) Thanks for sharing, and enjoy that family time!