Finding Those Tough Supplies!
February 27, 2009 5:27 pm maria Craft Professionals, Crafts
I once searched for tiny wood pencils for three years! I wanted really small pencils for some of my paper crafting projects, but trying to find a place to buy the tiny pencils seemed almost impossible. Every few months I’d sit down at the computer and went search engine crazy. I wasn’t sure these pencils existed or I wasn’t using the right keywords!
Finally one day American Pencil popped up during a search and I found my tiny, tiny pencils! I was in heaven, of course I had to buy a box (1,000 little pencils!) and I wasn’t happy just picking one color, I wanted green, red, and yellow! I still have about half of those pencils left in my stash and to this day I just love them.
Recently I wanted to find small dive flag beads. One of the divers we dive with, had the coolest anklet made up of ceramic beads… a seahorse, turtle, dolphin, and clown fish. Those beads I’d seen before and even had in my bead collection, but I’d never seen the ceramic dive flag bead. I wanted those beads!
I searched and searched. Asking every bead shop owner I’d visit and lots of Google searches. Nothing. Finally, I found an artist on Etsy.com who was making earrings using those same dive flag beads. She was kind enough to sell me just the beads. I felt some joy! I’m going to design something special for a group I admire, EagleDivers.org. This is an organization that helps wounded soldiers heal using scuba diving as physical therapy. As a scuba diver who has fibromyalgia, I know how healing this sport is and can’t wait to get started on a design using my new found dive flag beads!
Some of the Eagle Divers gang!
If you have problems finding art or craft supplies please feel free to drop me a line using our Ask A Question form found at the top of the page. I don’t always have an answer, but I’ll try my best!
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Gida :
Date: February 22, 2010 @ 3:50 PM
Could you please tell me where did you get those pencils?
Lucinda :
Date: June 10, 2010 @ 8:03 AM
Me too please a search for American Pencil says they changed their name to general pencil and I cannot find these tiny pencils… I have been searching forever too.
temberland sale :
Date: July 9, 2010 @ 12:58 AM
good article, I wait for the next article ….