craftgrrl | oh boy this is a big question post, every question on earth, you'll find it here ^.^

Okay, so tonight I armed myself with 50 crisp dollars... okay not dollars cause that's a lot of ones. Anyway, I went to Joann's to stock up for making christmas presents as I'm sure many others have done in the past week. I was so scared of not having enough money for everything I needed but even after being seduced by things I don't need, leaving, and being chased out into the parking lot cause they had found the last package of shrinky dinks in the store, my total was 37.70 ^.^

my booty (not that one you perv >:/ ):

-one retractable exacto knife
-three bottles of acrylic paint (white, true blue and dutch blue what makes it dutch?)
-30 magnets (I bet you know what those are for)
-flat clear marbles (take a guess, I dare you)
-E6000 glue
-two wooden boxes
-three fat quarters of various cloth
-shrinky dinks
-a midget from Sri Lanka
-pin backs
-tiny round mirrors
-Aleene's Instant Decoupage

and now, for the main event, my millions and millions of questions :D Thrilled, aren't you?

1) I was torn between buying modge podge/sealant and buying Aleen's instant stuff, on the bottle of Aleene's it says it's waterproof, cause I've heard the modge podge without sealant gets nasty sticky, and I don't want gramma with a box stuck to her arm, so was this the right choice? Or should I take it back and get modge podge and sealant?

2) For the Shrinky Dinks. Okay my plan for the shrinky dinks is to give all my friends a Dolly of... myself ^.^ for them to abuse any way they like.. so, you know, they don't abuse me instead. Now I want the dolls to be relatively the same size, and I also don't want to draw 12 different Wrens, what would be the best way to get the image on all of the shrinky dink pages without a laser jet printer :/ ? I'm not exactly sure what Vellum does, but from what I gather it transfers images from the vellum onto whatever you want it to go on, am I right? If I am right, would this be the right way to go about transering lots of drawings of me onto shrinky dink paper? Or do I need to break into some strangers house to use their printer? (I mean it'd be more likely for me to go to kinkos and get them to print the picture onto twelve sheets of vellum than onto the shrinky dink plastic itself, right?... am I even making any sense?)

3) I heard in Jr. High it doesn't hurt when you get an exacto knife stuck in your eye, is this true?

Okay, fine. That's not a million questions and the last one was just me being a spaz (I really did hear that though), but I really would appreciate your help. My left hand would too, cause she's not looking forward to drawing twelve pictures of Wrenny.

(If this is too long someone tell me and I'll throw a cut in somewhere, promise. Just hit me up on AIM)