Posts Tagged With: crafting tools

No card today, folks.  I spent yesterday working my real job and sleeping in my chair.  My husband has been sick with a head cold and, in a gesture of pure spousal selflessness, shared it with me!  As a result, I can’t breathe and my nose is dripping.  Except when it’s completely plogged up.  Which it is.  Except when it isn’t.  It a wondrous cycle of drip-plog-drip-plog….on and on.  It’s a plumber’s nightmare.  Or dream, depending on your perspective.  Making a card requires breathing – and dripping on a card requires more Pearls and Rhinestones.

So I decided to just skip it.

Instead, I decided to share some of the items that I consider my “must-have-go-to” tools.  If my craft table was a kitchen, these would be the utensils that I reach for every day.  In the drawer closest to the stove!  We’re talking the perfect wooden spoons.  No the ravioli roller thingy that’s buried in a drawer somewhere.  The rice paddle (yes, I keep that where I can find it – we do rice a lot!).   Not the foley-steamer basket that I use approximately once every 5 years!

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