The lovely Christine commented on my last post that she likes seeing the crafty things I make. It just so happens I was going to post all of these things sometime soon, so I decided to go ahead and post them now. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure.

First, we have some adorable little pocket mirrors made by yours truly. Well, Colin actually helped me handpress the mirrors. I didn’t want to ruin them! I bought a 1 1/4 inch and a 2 1/4/ inch button maker back before Christmas. I tried my hand at making a button, but that’s pretty much all I did. Until this past weekend. I decided to try making a pocket mirror, and these two were the result. They are really quite adorable. I don’t think the pictures do them justice. I love making cute things! I am quite proud of the bee on the mirrors. I made it all by myselfs. love:

Next up we have some bee charms. These were an experiment. I had been wanting to try my hand at making the cute little plastic charms that seem to be sold all over Etsy and various other webshops these days. I knew they were made using ShrinkyDink paper, and I happened to buy some at Joann’s back before Christmas. I couldn’t find any of the inkjet ShrinkyDink paper though. I decided to experiment with regular ShrinkyDink paper in my printer instead. It worked, but as you can see, some places smeared. Most of the smears are from my fingers handling the other bees. They turned out fine, but they’d turn out way better (and more vivid) if I had actual inkjet ShrinkyDink paper.

Last, we have a couple of pictures of things I have been working on for several weeks now. These projects have been put on hold since I have been rather busy lately. I bet you can guess what one of them will turn out to be. Hopefully I can finish these two babies before say summer?

So, Bubs recently received this email telling her that her site had won an award. She had to go to this site, create an account, and ta-da – here site was then listed on this site. She promptly got a negative comment about her site. Idiots. Lo and behold, I had the same email in my inbox today. I think the site is pretty wacked, but I did submit my site just to get some general feedback. Rate my site. Or not. Won’t hurt my feelings either way.