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i am so excited!

i get paid today, and since my rent is paid and my phone bill is paid i'm blowing my entire paycheck on craft stuff. [dont get too excited, i work twenty hours a week at a health store, so its like, a hundred dollars. ha.] its a good thing i got my joanns coupon yesterday.
anyway. i'm going totally all out and making my mom the following for mothers day:

-a notebook out of handmade paper, and then dying it with tea. the cover is going to have a small frame glued to it with a fake flower glued to the center. my question is though, i've never made paper before, is it too brittle to bend if i want to do coptic binding?

-candles inside of flower pots, that will be painted green and have flower petals glued to the rim.

-mini soaps in the shape of flowers, or watering cans if i can find them


mothers day is also the two year anniversary of my mom being in remission from lymphoma [cancer of the lymphnodes] so she went to las vegas for two weeks, and i started making her a flower garden, so thats why the theme. i hope i have enough time to get everything done! she comes home saturday morning!