Crafty Creations, a new Blog Category

Something I've been up to lately is doing a LOT more crafting. This is probably a convergence of several aspects of my life: craziness at work, cutting back on spending, trying to use what I have here at home rather than buying new things, and the fact that I have a really great space for crafting now. More details on the great craft room in an upcoming post. With pics, if I ever get it at least orderly enough for a quick photo shoot.

In the meanwhile, here's the end result of the 4-week-long pencil roll project. Now, I should say that it only takes a few hours to make a pencil roll if you have all the fabric ready to go, but this was a learning process for me, and in addition, I had the added time required to embroider the name on this one. So this is the first of what may turn out to be quite a few pencil rolls, depending on how well-received this one is.

I think this is just about right for a little guy who'll be in the FIRST GRADE in the fall:







If you want to try to make a pencil roll for yourself or a kid you know, there is a great tutorial here.