I love my niece for many reasons but one of them is the excuse to indulge my love of the craft store. There is nothing else like it. Aisles and aisles of objects waiting to be turned into works of art. I could spend hours there if my husband wasn't usually shadowing me and bored after 5 minutes.
I decided for my niece's 1st Christmas I was going to buy a cute stocking and fill it with various gifts I found over the rest of the year. I have made 2 of the gifts myself. First was a ceramic fairy that I painted and had glazed at one of those shopping mall pottery stores.
Today I found a paint your own night light kit. Yes it was in the kiddy craft section but it had GLITTERY PUFF paint. How could I resist. Glittery purple, blue, pink and yellow to decorate a butterfly.
I LOVE giving gifts and I often combine that with crafts by painting/decorating wooden boxes to put small gifts like jewelry in. Its my way of showing people I care for my love by taking time to make their gift special. I want my niece to look back one day in her childhood chest of treasures and see items I made for her. I want her to know how special she is to our family and for some reason love to me = puff paint.
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I love crafts too, but it's way easier to do for a niece. With a toddler running around and into EVERYTHING, I simply can't imagine trying to use any sort of paint.
I can't wait until she's older and we can do crafts together!
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