handmade gifts

[monkeyrawk.livejournal.com]

i was feeling crafty one day and decided to make some stuff:

the big star is a keychain i made for my mom. it's basically just a wooden star shape with a hole drilled into it (i don't have a drill so i had to use a fork and a sharp steak knife). i painted the front yellow and the back bright blue. to make it sparkly i used this glitter paint stuff that has moon and star confetti in it. after it dried i applied gold glittery fingernail polish as a varnish and used a piece of an old dog tag necklace i had to string through the hole. and on the left is one of those altoid strip tins. i stuck a powerpuff girls sticker onto it and then used a red glitter pen to cover the rest (i left the bottom portion of the tin alone though). after it dried i just used a black sharpie to outline the sticker and once again used the fingernail polish to set it. as for the inside, i just smashed up a stick of lip balm and put it inside. so it's now a lip balm tin! i gave it to my sister nicole. they are both a lot more sparkly in person than in the picture.