sassacraft #13

necessity is the mother of invention, or ingenuity. or something like that.

if you ask me, those boys are twins.

i was making my flowers, and cut open the bag of tiny beads (that was already spilling beads all over my desk without me knowing it) and found that these little things can escape from grasp very, very fast. i needed something to put them in, and i needed it five minutes ago.

i corralled the beads as best i could back into the baggie, and found myself so very thankful for strange donations. you see, about, i don't know, eight or nine months ago, a mother brought a box of empty baby food jars into the daycare to see if we could use them. they sat in the hallway by the craft cabinets for about six months, then i claimed them for my class in January, saying that i would make snowglobes with my three year olds (i know, i was overzealous...) well, i never got around to actually planning that craft, much less executing it, and March rolled in last week with the jars collecting dust in the corner. so i brought them home, thinking surely i could do something with them.

surely enough, i could. i found that baby food jars are the perfect size for holding tiny beads, small clothespins, scraps of Scripture, and buttons, among many other things: eyebolts, wire, ribbon scraps, screws, nails, bobby pins, barrettes..i could go on!

but with all that usefulness, the lids were kind of ugly. brand names just aren't that attractive. so i found a way to make them so. i cut 3 x 3 squares of fabric and mod podged them to the lids. I tied a thin ribbon around the lid for extra hold and trimmed the extra fabric off, though it looks cute with the pointy parts too. i only made four with some scrap fabric, but i think i might hit up Hobby Lobby on saturday for some fun spring prints to brighten things up. by next monday, i will have two dozen or so cute little jars for holding little things that can easily get lost under all the big things.

i can't wait!