Buttons hava arrived!

We got the buttons!  The holes are so big!  I'm excited, but after finding out what the plastic lacing really is, Scoubidou or Scoubi, and ordering some I think that one knot maybe too small for the holes.  I could try some buttons I have with normal sized holes, but it's all just speculation until they get here.  I love the buttons, I don't know what exactly I'm going to do with them yet, but they came from Etsy, so I just want to give a shout out to them here. 

Evil Wins

So I'm looking for this tubing, the ones I order from China haven't come yet and I realize I need help. 

The help I'm talking about is from other crafters, experienced and wisened crafters.  So I search for Craft Forums.  I've had pretty good success on online forums for knitting, the Ravelry Community, there's always someone who's already done a project and wants to share their story.  So I see Craftster.org.  I peek around on the site, looking to find that connection.  I'm on there and I look through the jewelry posts, specifically since that's what I'm looking for help in.  All this is great and I realize that these people are just like me - craft whores, a name I've come to embrace, since I know it means, I try to craft, but could never be serious.  People who have no clue what they are doing, but buy expensive supplies to let their inner craft shine forth.  It's less a striving for perfection and more a striving to let nature out.  That was the connection that I was looking for. 

So I register.  So I thought.  This captcha.  That captcha.  None of the above captcha.  I guess I was wrong.  The elite people at Craftster must read minds to register for their forum.  I left after 5 tries.  A person gets disappointed, and seeing as the captcha never matches up with the type, I realized. 

I hate captchas.  And my will to get into a burgeoning society of crafters, and ask them about my mysterious plastic tubing for my awesome button rings was thwarted.  Evil wins again.

There has been an Evil Society of Writers.  I have heard tell of them.  So perhaps there should be an Evil Society of Crafters.  How can crafting be evil?  You haven't met the crafters! I think it's more advanced craft whoring.

Waiting and Anticipation

I haven't gotten any packages yet with my ring making supplies, the plastic tubes or the wooden buttons.  I'm still waiting with bated breath.  I really want to get started on these. 

I've been looking a the buttons and I am worried that they are just a really big close up and have normal sized holes.  This is tragic.  I can't make rings out of that!  That's the problem of buying online, you are never sure what you are going to get.

I never did anything with these.  I still have the tubes in the garage and I think the buttons are in the button tin.

Getting in Gear

Ok, no awesome crafts to report.  However, I am going to the craft store, hopefully this week.  To get some materials for some rings, that I want to do.

Has anyone had problems with finding plastic tubing? or even nylon coated wire for bracelets?  I found some plastic, but it was in strings, not in tubes, where the book I have has a visual of plastics with a hole in them. 

I thought I would have to wait to go to the craft store with my mom, which is always a "interesting" experience, but I realized I could order online, which is more expensive, but more niche appropriate, meaning you'll always know if you've found something which may or may not be in the more general hardware stores.  I found this nylon mesh tubing, which could easily be melted to close the ring, and these awesome wooden beads with huge holes that I know I can paint!  Super great. 



I still have these buttons