Yes, I Said Craft Night

I would like to start out by saying that it's nice to have friends that get it.  Who don't give you the "Have you lost your mind?" look when you say you want to have a craft night but get excited with you.  We are Hobby Lobby-loving, Pinterest-obsessed Craft Nerds.  And we are proud of it.  

With all of the crafting done around the holidays and all of the craft supplies we received as gifts, it seem only natural that we would get together for a craft night. The stars (and schedules) aligned for the night of January 14 and every one was so excited.  We had never really done anything like this before.  What do you do at a craft night?  That question was posed by all four of us involved in the craft night and by every person who found out we were having a craft night.  I don't know about the other girls, but my answer was always "I have no clue but I can't wait to find out!"  My level of excitement usually got me strange glances because, really, what could be so exciting about a craft night?

After countless trips to Hobby Lobby, countless hours on Pinterest, and two books purchased from Amazon, craft night finally arrived.  Everyone got to my house, the pizza ordered, went downstairs, and looked at each other.  Now what?  I do feel like the next time we do a craft night, we should have some sort of theme music to kick things off.  It would make it much more festive.  

It was kind of a catchall kind of night.  We started with heat embossing (lots of ooohs and aaahs), moved on to a very frustrating try at using the Cricut machine to make embossing folders for the Cuttlebug (it eventually worked but I'm not sure it's worth the effort), and tried to cut glass with fire (one shattered, but other than that, there was little success).  After that, we went back to my crafting area (it's a cart inside of what is actually my husband's theater room) and tried the markers on the Cricut machine.   We were all impressed with how that worked and finally got a project completed.  The 1st graders in Meghan's class will all get super cool craft night Valentines.  

After working on projects, we looked at all of our papers, punches, and brainstormed some ideas for future craft nights.  We decided it would go much smoother if we had a specific thing we wanted to focus on.   At the beginning of the night, we thought it would be an every other month endeavor but we had so much fun, we decided to make it monthly.   The February date was set up and we will be doing glass etching and making personalized stamps using the Cricut.   More pictures and projects to come!!

-Ashley