I’ve never met a crafter without a stash of some kind. This year my goal is to use up all the craft supplies I have spent money on that are taking up mental and physical space in my life. 
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Stash Bash : Make your own wooden buttons tutorial
As promised yesterday, if you have been wanting to put some cute wooden buttons on your projects but the cost is prohibiting you, here is a fast tutorial on my wooden buttons. These can be easily distressed, sanded to make them not look so perfect, stained polished and painted depending on the look you are going for. The best part is they cost pennies for each one. This is where I get them but I am sure there are lots of places to get them.
You will need:
wood circles whatever size you like
wood drill and drill bit the size you want the holes in the button to be
wood clamp
piece of scrap wood
pencil to mark holes
with a pencil, mark where the holes will be drilled
clamp the wood circle to your scrap piece of wood and drill through your holes
you can lightly sand the holes if you want to, I didn’t need to. Just brush off the buttons. At this point you could distress the buttons, stain or polish with a beeswax polish or just use them as is.
Enjoy your new buttons!!
So what have you been up to? I love to see what you come up with. I have added the Mr Linky to the bottom of this post for you to link up your Stash Bash projects.
Here’s what to do. There are no rules.
Just use what you have and try to not buy new supplies, unless you need it to
Take a
Stash Bash – Make your own knitting needles tutorial
I’ve never met a crafter without a stash of some kind. This year my goal is to use up all the craft supplies I have spent money on that are taking up mental and physical space in my life. 
As promised, here is the tutorial on the handmade knitting needles. My girls loved these so much that I will have to make some up for the boys since they have been “eyeing” their sisters Saint Nick presents.
These needles are so so easy to make really and so cheap.
You need some dowels (I get mine at the craft store)
Pencil sharpener
Wooden beads for the tops
Fine sandpaper
oil to polish (coconut, olive oil etc)
Cut your dowels to the size of needle you want. I was able to get two sets of needles from one dowel.
Sharpen one end with the pencil sharpener
sand the tip slightly so its not sharp enough to hurt someone and then start lightly sanding the dowel so that it becomes very smooth. Make sure to sand down the sides of the tip which you sharpened so that the yarn will glide on and off the needles easily.
Glue on the wooden beads to the other non-sharpened side.
Polish the needles with the oil.
So what have you been up to? I love to see what you come up with. I have added the Mr Linky to the bottom of this post for you to link up your Stash Bash projects.
Here’s what to do. There are no rules.
Just use what you have and try to not buy new supplies, unless you need it to
Take a
