Friendship Bracelets

I think everyone remembers making friendship bracelets as a kid. I know I use to make them, but I don't remember finishing a lot of them. Anyways, one of my friends, got me thinking about them and so when I was at target I found this friendship bracelet craft kit in the kids section and thought, I should try making some of these again. It gives you a variety of bracelet designs you can make and some of them don't look too hard. I would like to give this again, plus I know I have some extra colored floss laying around I know I could use up. This is not the exact kit I got, but it is very similar, I believe this one you can get at walmart,

Punch Needle

So I came across this craft a while back. I bought a kit at Michaels, and thought it was the coolest thing. What you do is you punch the little pattern, with this special tool that you put some colored floss in and when you do that it creates this cool 3D effect. I remember I gave it a shot but didn't quite understand it. So I would like to go and revisit that craft and give it another shot.

Of course I was also thinking I could create my own pattern/character to punch needle once I got the hang of it. The picture above is the pattern I bought, I thought it looked cute, and I have been seeing online that people frame them and hang on the wall.

Marble Magnets

I know everyone has seen these before but I really liked the instructions and images used on these marble magnets. Here is the link http://www.notmartha.org/tomake/marblemagnets/ Also I thought it was a great idea to store them in an altoids container. I really have never tired this craft before, but it has been on my to do list for a while. That is one good thing about this blog, it will help me realize all the crafts I want to try and make me start crafting!

Bendaroos!

Well I saw Bendaroos on the Bonnie Hunt show a few weeks back and thought they looked pretty cool! So of course when I was a Walmart I picked a box up. They are flexible building sticks that are made of wax and a super strong string. You can create tons of little cute sculptures and I thought since I do like working with clay and making characters that this would be something fun to try. I was reading that you can also take your creations apart, plus they can stick to walls and windows hmmm, I wonder what all you can do with these. I can't wait to give this craft a try and see what I can come up with. If anyone has used these before or is going to try them, I would love to see your creations!

Glowtastic U- Draw Night Light Kit

Glowtastic is a cool night light I found at Woodfield Mall. What I got is act

ually a kit called U-Draw Night Light Art Kit. I haven't tried it yet, but I can't wait! It is basically a night light where you can draw and color a picture with markers, place the picture in the square holder, plug it into an outlet and you have a lit up piece of art. It comes with 4 blank sheets and one sample preprinted design to color. I thought this would be

really fun to take some of my rubber stamps,

stamp the sheet, color them in and then let them come alive as the light shines through. This would also be fun for kids to draw and color their names and put it in their bedroom! I think creating holiday scenes would be fun, for they can be switched out for Christmas, Valentines, Easter and so on.

Hmmm.... maybe create one for your pet! I may have to make one that says "Cosmo's Room" with a cute cartoon picture of my little dog........and make one for the bathroom, such as a Valentine's themed design which would be the next holiday. I could probably ramble on with ideas forever lol!

Anyways, above is a picture of what the U- Draw Night Light Art Kit looks like! Let me know what you think of this craft or if you have tried it out.