She's crafty!

Earlier in the month I saw a posting on Facebook from my dear friend, Megan Turnas about a craft exchange she was organizing for the month of March. Being the overachiever that I am I jumped right in, feet first. Not thinking, do you have time for this? Or most importantly, are you crafty? Nah, I just signed up. She used this super cute site called Elfster, which describes inself as a virtual Secret Santa. Names were drawn and anonymous questions were asked and a woman names Sarah was chosen for me. She lives in London and has two children and loves to sew, cook, travel, hike, and do oil paintings. My mind was racing and with great help from the real 'Martha's' in my life, I had come up with a few ideas. We thought about luggage tags, a journal, note cards, and magnets. Immediately I was hot on on luggage tags and even paid and downloaded a pattern off Etsy which are these super cute, advertised as EASY ones that of course required a sewing machine. Ugh. I don't have one and I don't even know how to use one. Also, the pattern is a three page PDF. Talk about overwhelming. Then I thought about easier luggage tags. I was hot on this remember. Still most involved sewing or were super cheesy.

Back to plan B, but what was plan B?

I emailed a few of my Martha's and one of them came up with an idea for glass marble magnets. I read the description online. (This website, not martha — to make: marble magnets, does an awesome way of explaining how to make them, so, just got there to get the directions.)

And I fell in love.

That night my daughter and I ran out to Michaels to find our supplies.

I rolled up my sleeves the next day and created these little wonders.

I'm so impressed with myself. How cute are they? I have so much fun creating these for Sarah.

I even designed a little robin egg blue box to accompany it.

I plan to ship them off today. I'm really thankful for all my friends and their awesome ideas. I wouldn't have been able to do it without them. So, maybe I'm not a crafting guru, but I was able to channel some thing creative in me to make these little gems. I hope she loves them as much as I do.