a website with everything!

One website that I love to look at and find things I'd like to buy (but never actually do!) is Etsy.com. It's a site where people can sell their own handmade things and it's amazing to see what some people can make!

In particular, I like to search for crafty things. I love crafts and I wish I were as creative as some people are, but I kinda try.

Here are some things I just found on Etsy that are similar to what has inspired me before.

These are fabric yo-yo's...used for quilting and probably some other stuff that I don't know about! My great grandma used to make these a whole lot and made a quilt out of them. She would use a whole lot of different types of fabrics when making them and I would always pick out my paper. One time when we went to visit her at the river, she taught me how to make them and sent me home with circles of different fabrics that she had already cut out, some thread, and a needle. In my attempt to make these yo-yos, I think I stopped after making no more than ten, because I was frustrated that they weren't coming out as good as Grandma's!

I love making bracelets out of string. I normally use embroidery thread. I love how many different colors you can find and how many stores have huge packs that you can get for so little. I just love them :) But this bracelt looks really cool, and I'd love to sit down one day and figure out how to make one for myself!

And last but not least, ornaments :) I actually have painted and made some Christmas ornaments over the past few holiday seasons. Of course, I can't make the perfect Nemo on the outside of a ball ornament, but I have painted glass ornaments that you can usually buy at Walmart, Ben Franklin, etc.
My favorite one I painted would have had to been where I used this glitter glue that had silver glitter and then snowflake confetti pieces in it. I painted the inside of the ornament and it turned out really cool!
I've also taken a few bottles of Christmasy color paints (red, green, gold, white, silver) and squeezed a little bit on the inside and tilted the ornament until the paint left a cool design. Then, I repeated with all of the other colors; it kind of turned out looking a bit like stained glass. Very fun too :)