Day 18: Crafty

Creativity is awesome. Once you get your brain in the right direction, anyone can be creative, I think.

Crafty is something else though. Craft stores, for me, are like heaven on earth. Yarn, glues, paper, stamps, stickers, paints....ah, I'm in love with all that stuff. Turning all those supplies into a project however, takes a little more skill and dedication of time than I'm generally willing to donate to many tasks.

But now, I'm in the young women's presidency for church and that means crafting seems to be oozing out my ears. I just completed my phase of the 2010 birthday gift for each of the girls. After many iterations and countless visits to craft stores I ended up with something that I thought was pretty cool.

As a presidency with no budget, we wanted to give the girls some sort of necklace or medallion, to remind them of the church - their strength and beliefs. We decided to use the 2010 mutual theme, "Be strong and of a good courage..." and I volunteered to make the charms.

Like I said, crafting isn't my strong suit but I thought that these little babies turned out pretty neat.

I designed little medallion pictures, covered them with modge podge glue, glued them to beautiful little tiles, applied a resin finish, and glued a claspy thing onto the back. I made 42 of them. In the end, they'll have a ribbon necklace attached and be stuffed into a cute little bag with a cute little tag and given to each young woman on her birthday.

They turned out pretty cool.

I'm a bit proud of myself.