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Random Crafts!!

First Grade Project Gingerbread House with assistance from the Summercrafter, me! Children should not use hot glue!!   After we covered it with felt, we let the student use fabric glue to finish it off with pompoms and such. Home Made Tags: Card stock, stamps, ribbon, stickers, jewels: easy peasy! Santa Claus Broom Miniature Wreath (6-8 inches)

So Many Crafts, So Little Time

I really didn't think I had done so much craft supply shopping this season.  I have so many "backed up" crafts to make from Christmases past and my crafting "Hope Closet." Originally, one of the reasons I started the blog was to "make" myself craft more often because the blog would kind of "keep me accountable."  After all, potentially, I would have all these readers depending on my crafty posts, right? : ) Anyway, in my zeal, I think that I over-estimated, even with the craft blogging, how much I could actually get done! Well, December is not over yet!! And I am really itching to make some quilts--no, not bedsized quilts, the anxiety that churns over the time it takes to make somthing of that magnitude is too much.  But I have resorted to a do-able compromise. I have seen them in loads of mags. Mini quilts.   They are perfect in the form of banners, place mats, rectangles & squares for small spaces and gifts. ...