Crafty People!

[Prairie Purrs]

A friend of mine makes wonderful suncatchers. She finds interesting-shaped twigs or small pieces of driftwood and drills several holes through the wood (all going in the same direction). Then she strings strands of beads, runs the top of each strand through one of the holes in the wood, and anchors each strand by crimping the end around a bead that's large enough not to slip through the hole.

One year I made treasure candles by hiding charms and polished stones inside--you pour a layer of wax, let it set, place your "treasure" on top of that layer, pour the next layer, and repeat until your candle mold is full. As the candle burns down, the treasures appear.

If you have friends who like tea, you can combine different kinds of loose tea to come up with your own special blend, then find pretty canisters to put it in.

[Blue_Frog]

lvpets2002 & Laura's Babies:
Thanks! If you guys are really interested, I could make up a couple for sale -- PM me if you like Also, theres a walkthrough at http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=102581.0 ... they're not too complicated to make, but tend to take time since each is made up of 32 separate fabric pieces sewn into 12 segments and all attached together.

CatsinDenver:
I love your ideas! I still have about 5 lbs of paraffin wax, and treasure candles using some fancy cool rocks i tumbled (went on mineral hunting expiditions this summer) would be really cool! And the tea thing is a cool idea too -- theres a place in the mall near here that sells about 100 different kinds of loose teas, and you can buy metal cannisters to put them in -- i could cover them with millefiori (spelling?) patterned fimo and make really cool containers!

[Laura's Babies]

Those seem easy enough to make... I will try that myself just for something to do! Thanks!