I’m a pretty crafty person by nature. An artist? No. Crafty, yes. I am also a bad blogger and barely manage to eek out posts about my knitting/reading/daily adventures. The crafty-ass stuff that happens here? Totally falls through the cracks.

Today, I tackled a fun and easy project. I made a magnet of the Knitting Olympics Gold Medal. Finishing a sweater in 16 days is quite an accomplishment and surely deserves some real estate on the ‘fridge.

I had to play with Franklin’s illustration a bit to make it the right resolution for printing. The image is not as crisp as I would have liked but still works for this project.

This is by far one of my favorite crafting tools. A Circular Cutting Thingy. I originally purchased it to help with the Wedding favors I made for our big day. It is super cool.

Cutting the medal out is a snap.

My other favorite crafting tool? My sticker maker. Love. It.

A sticker of the gold medal. This is cool in its own right - but I wanted to take it one step further.

Here is a magnet sheet. You can get these in most craft stores or here (these are self adhesive - no sticker maker necessary).

Stick the sticker onto the magnet and viola! You’ve got a Gold Medal magnet.

Love it!

Coming Soon - the sweater that earned me the gold…

There is an interesting discussion going on in the comments from my last post. Please take a minute to check it out (and to find out what your silly name is - because it’s just funny.) Someone left a comment pointing out a topic that has hit the Oklahoma House.

Restricting access to books with sexually explicit OR gay themes.

Read through the bill at the site linked above. I’m all for democracy, and for people deciding what to legislate and what not to legislate (at least in a perfect world I am - when it functions as it was meant to function). However, this type of action scares me. Library’s are sacred places in my world. They should be free and open and available to material of any type to anyone. I can understand reshelving individual books in children’s sections based on blatant explicit sexual content. However - to put them in a special area, an area that would require a renovation of an existing library building? Spending money on this, money that is better spent on buying MORE BOOKS, to restrict funding to a library if they DON’T comply?

These are just the logistical issues. When I consider the gay themed stipulation of this bill I am more deeply troubled. What kind of message do we send our children when we tell them that a story about two people of the same sex getting married should not be shelved next to a book about two people of a different sex getting married?

**I’ve changed the first link above to a current article. My Google-Fu was not on its mark yesterday and, as a much appreciated commenter pointed out, the original link points to an older article. Apparently this is a long running issue in OK.***