Goodies!

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I just came back from craft shopping. First I went to a craft shop. It's the only decent craft shop in a decent-sized city (Christchurch, NZ) so prices are pretty high. I got a 1L tin of resin for $32.50* (time to make more bracelets!) and then I stared longingly at the eyelets and associated tools. A small pack of eyelets, a hole punch and eyelet setter would have come to over $50, so I left it. Next stop: hardware shop for sandpaper and drill bits. What should I stumble across but an eyelet set! Eyelet tool (looks like a pair of pliers, punches holes and sets eyelets) and 100 eyelets (mixed pack of silver, gold and copper colours, all round) for $6.75. I am one happy crafter. Now my head is buzzing with all kinds of uses for these eyelets - uses I wouldn't even let myself consider before because the darn things were so expensive! Books, clothing... if anyone has any especially nifty uses for them let me know!

I also have a question. My boyfriend just doesn't "get" it. When I get him to cook, he's the kind who buys a jar of pasta sauce rather than spend 5 minutes making it from scratch. When I talk about crafts, he says "sounds like an awful lot of trouble to me". What's a nice, easy craft that would be appealing to boys and that we could do together? I know that there are some boys out there, maybe you can help me out. Hmm, there should really be a craftboy community!

* Prices are in $NZ. Roughly halve it for $USD, bearing in mind that most things (not craft things) are cheaper here but we earn less.