Fun New Toys

I've been keeping myself busy with all sorts of crafting projects, which has called for a bunch of new crafting toys. I bought this Martha Stewart circle cutter from Michael's the other day and have been using it to make my 3-D baby mobile. It's coming along super well, if I say so myself. I'm so glad I decided to invest in it instead of free-handing a bunch of circles with an X-acto. However, I couldn't completely avoid that because the mobile is sports themed and the circle cutter won't cut smaller than 4 inch circles - not good for golf balls. Anyway, check out my work so far here. And by the way, you should all invest in the Michael's iphone app. Actually, no investing necessary- it's free! And you'll always have a 40% off coupon and they scan it right off your phone. Genius. Anyway, see how cruddy the free-hand gold balls look compared to the rest?

I used the paper from which I cut the basketball to guide the lines.

I didn't want to obsess over making the perfect soccer ball, so I purposefully made them cool and abstract-looking. I think they came out rather well.

More details about the mobile to come when it's done!