craftgrrl | The Crafting bug is alive and well in this house this week! (Reply)

After school I went to the dollar store and found me a bunch of great things. I went in to find out if they had dish towels, so I could buy a few to play tug o war with Ginger with, then found some neat stickers, and some of those little wood boxes you can buy at Michaels, and they're already to go , you just paint them.

I have painted up one of the little boxes and put a cute sticker on it and hopefully seal it with out the sticker ruining and give it to my mom for mothers day!

and some of the stickers are really cool, so I am having a ball using them in my crafts. Now I just wish i knew how to seal the projects with out the stickers and rub on decals ruining, since the Kyrlon special purpose Clear Poly Urethane stuff ruins the stickers and decals. I am going to try modge podge.

There was some really cute miniature erasers at the dollar store, and they came in their own tiny zip up back pack, and I am thinking it'd be fun to put them in the little boxes I decorated, and give as gifts. Other idea's to go into the boxes, could be stickers, or tiny earrings, or little candies, or little gem stone thingies I make by gluing pictures and stuff to the back of those glass gems that you put in the bottom of fake flower arrangements for added decorative appeal.

I got the greatest idea for home made magnets now I am jonesing to go back to the dollar store, where I saw the cute little miniature erasers, and then get some of those magnet tabs at the craft store, and hot glue the little erasers to the magnet tabs.

Also fun to do, would be to take baseball card protectors, put pictures in them and then hole punch it to make a photo ring album.

Yet ANOTHER idea, would be to make a framed magnets board from galvanized steel and snap together picture frames.

And, here's some of the stuff I have been up to this crafting spree!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/dANCINGnddreMING.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/flowersinarow.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/4tosewinto1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/4madeintoone.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/outbreAK.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/magnetsarrangednicely.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/Just4youmagnet.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/snowangelsticker.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/lIONMAGNET.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/Just4youmagnet.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/HappyThoughtsmagnet.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/hippityhoppity.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/birdieanddaisymagnet.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/sweettreatsmagnet.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/100_1114.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/friendsareapreciousgift.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/frontofbluebox.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/Loveyoumagnet.jpg

and this one was a magnet from the dentists office, and I just cut off his name and contact info, and now I gots me a cute little magnet for my frig for free:)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/IamSiamese/Smilebutterfly.jpg