I love to scrapbook and sometimes I can be lazy. My least favorate part about scrapbooking is applying the glue, so I thought I would be cute and go to my local craft store and buy Spray Adhesive.To my suprise I discovered that there were about 10 diffrent brands so I thought to my self I remember using elmers glue in school. I picked out the ELMER'S  Acid-Free Multi Purpose Spray Adhe...

This is a great book, if you're looking to do crafts, particularly with kids.  The items needed in order to do any of the crafts are easy to find, and most of them you probably already have around your home (i.e. egg cartons, glue...).  The crafts are divided into sections.  Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, Easter, and "Everyday" are the vari...

 We were given a craft set, and in the set was this great acrylic paint. This is a really good , no drip craft paint. It dries pretty quick and leaves a beautiful finish. I was using white and the bottle number was 23700. It is a good value. The bottle size was four fluid ounces. This paint is available at Michaels. I really like the amount that you have in this plastic container. It gave ...

      Let me start by saying I am a teddy bear fanatic.     When I was pregnant for my 1st daughter 3 yrs ago, I wanted to do her nursery up in the teddy bear theme.  We had gotten the crib set, wall border, stuffed teddies, teddy figures, and teddy bear wall pictures.  The only thing we were missing was some lamps.   I wanted som...

Family Fun's Crafts BookEdited by Deanna F. Cook and the experts at Family Fun MagazinePublished by Hyperion 1997My kids and I had such a lot of fun together with this book. I believe I have owned it for about ten years. Now my youngest is starting Community College so I'm saving the book to use with my grandchildren. Family Fun Magazine was a good resource to have as a mother to young ...

My son received the ditial arts and crafts studio for christmas.  This is a great item for any kids who love art.  My son is 7 and he loves it.  It comes with a CD that you load onto your computer.  The child colors or draws on the screen on the craft studio and it shows up on the computer screen.  There are many different options for the type of coloring.  It give...

I got the book "Witch Crafting:  A Guide to Making Magic"  by Phyllis Curott  for a gift by my boyfriend.  I must say I really enjoyed reading the book.  Phyllis is a Wiccan High Priestess.  In this book you will learn houw to create a sacred space and how to do personal rituals, as well as tap into the power of the altered states like dreaming, meditatio...

The 12 Craft Scissor pack is great for adults or children. There are 12 different cutting patterns. with color coded handles. Each scissor measures about 6 inches,and opens and closes for easy use. Whether you are into scrapbooking or just cutting papers, these work fine.  These can be used by kids that like to cut paper or make projects at home or school. They fit nicely into the pal...

While at work I was trying to find something that would keep my coffee cup warm that was inexpensive and really that wasn't a mug or something.  We have to use our own cups in the machine and the heated travel mugs just would not cut it.  Well I went to a local craft store (Michaels) and they had this candle warmer on sale for a really good price. The heating surface as a perfect ...

  Dura- Craft is making excellent wood minature furniture kits.  It is durable and easy to assemble. These sets are for every room in your doll house. Dura- Craft builds minature furniture that is made to last and makes the memories. I would recommend all of their doll house minature furniture. We have been assembling furniture for a family member. This is so easy to  work with. ...

Chris-Craft have been in the boat building business since 1874. They have a feeling of total ease upon the waters. Rarely if ever do you experience that hard bounce, boats made with less expert hands do when running the waves. My father bought his first boat when I was 8 years old, and we all fell in love with racing across San Francisco Bay and out beyond the Golden Gate.The boat has two main ...

This magazine is truly the inspiration book for people who love to craft!Each issue is a whopping 162 full-colour pages of beautiful handmade crafts.  The sky is the limit with this magazine.  Each issue features several different crafts including, cross-stitching, card-making, rubber-stamping, wood-working, sewing, crocheting, candle-making, flower-arranging, jewelry-making, crafts f...

I have a small collection of glass floats. Do you know what a glass float is? Asian fishermen of old used to make balls of recycled glass melted onboard their fishing boats to float their fishing nets. In my Dad’s day it was not uncommon to find these floats that had broken loose from the nets washed up on ocean shores in the Pacific Northwest. Dad had several that he found while beachc...

My daughter loves arts and crafts so much so whenever we pass by stationery shops or toys stores selling crafty materials, we do not come home empty-handed.I got her this Christmas puncher for her card-making kits so she does not have a hard time cutting out shapes and I for printing them. This is a small puncher with a christmas-tree shape die. There are also other shapes to choose from like h...

I really enjoy scrapbooking. I started doing it about two years ago. I just happened to be browsing at Big Lots about a year ago and I came across a scrapbook starter kit for $10. The kit came with some paper, glue, stickers and these Kodak Craft Scissors. For two years now these have been my go to scissors. They are durable and very easy to use. They cut in a "Deckle" line or as I li...

Stephen King is the undisputed master of horror. As an aspiring writer, I would love nothing more than to get in his head and find out - as scary as it may be - just what makes him tick. On Writing is probably the closest I'll ever get to realizing that dream, but it's a damn good look at what's there. Half memior, half writing advice, this is definitely one of the most motivational...

Say what you will about Martha Stewart but the woman has style. Even so, I can rarely afford to buy any of her products, even if she does sell them at K-Mart. But when I saw these Martha Stewart Collector Boxes on sale at Michael's Crafts I snatched them up. They regularly sell for $17.99, which is a ridiculous price, but I happened across a clearance sell and got them for $3.99 each. Makes...

My five year old daughter loves to "click and color" on the computer. Unfortunately I am constantly worrying that a push of the wrong button could send her to sights that would cause a litany of questions I am not prepared to answer. My younger sister researching pussy cats comes to mind. I found the Fisher Price Digital Arts and Crafts Studio online along with several reviews that we...

I just love decorative signs. I have quite a few of them around my home. This one has the name of my collectibles business on it: "Ribbons and Roses."  I thought it would be a perfect match, because it has hand-painted roses and rose buds on an elegantly shaped thin white wood sign. The edges of the sign are washed in pink, with the hand-painted roses and leaves, and the middle i...

I have a budding artist at home - my daughter. I bought this book from Magrudy's to enhance her skills and make her more crafty as she is into arts and crafts. One look at the book, I knew this was the one that she will be referring to whenever she needs ideas for her tinkering hands to work on. The book is hard bound and very colorful. It's so colorful that it catches the eyes of the r...