Michaels again.

[Nevermore]

1. Opalescent dragonfly stickers
2. 7 fun fibres (3 metres each) in pinky red tones. Picked these up before we found the ribbon aisle.
3. Watecolour bright eyelets. Really just wanted to buy #9 but had to have something to use it on.
4. Elmer's Craft Bond stick.
5. Stickypix dog stickers because Max liked them.
6. Paper piercer because I am not tweezing holes again. If my tweezers are going to be used this weekend, it is definitely on my eyebrows.
7. 25 blank cards and envelopes. Picked these up before I found the cardstock sale.
8. Stickypix cat stickers because Max liked them.
9. Eyelet Setter. I love tools. I notice that none of the scrapping tools come in power mode. Why not? Wouldn't it be cool to have a DeWalt's power scrapping toolbox? Cordless stuff of course. But power punch and pierce and whack. Oh yeah!
10. Two rolls of dotted ribbon (green on red and red on pink) 4 yards each. Took us about half an hour. There was an entire aisle of ribbon.
11. Snaps. Apparently they have male and female parts. That is what the saleslady told me. More later.
12. 50 sheets of primary colour cardstock. Had to get this. Everyone always talks about their cardstock and I don't have any.

Later: Okay, who can help me with the snaps? Is it like chicken sexing because I can't tell the males from the females. Is there any reason I can't whack their backsides down with the eyelet setter?

[akissling]

Sign me up for the Dewalts and make it in better colors! The helpful salesclerk must jump with glee when she or he sees you coming now!! From you list I see that you now own virtually (pardon the non pun...digital ha ha) everything that an ordinary crafter owns. Just add some glitter (you know me) and some deckled scissors and there you are!! Pretty soon you will be checking the paper for your weekly 40% off coupon and buying things like scrapper's suitcases and $40 Japanese hole punches!! Can't wait to see next weeks loot!

[graybonnie]

Come on Kim... trying to tell us you can't tell the difference between male parts and female parts... LOL

[Nevermore]

This is all fine and well guys but I am serious about the snaps. What do I do with them? How do I put them on? Consider me Puzzled in Etibicoke.

[graybonnie]

Sorry, I can offer no help in applying snaps. I do know how to adhere the one used for clothing. My dear mother made sure I knew who to do a few simple sewing tasks. But, I do enjoy teasing you.... LOL. I hope help arrives soon in Nevermore Land.

[kygirl]

Important information -- Kim, the male parts always go inside the female parts. This applies to many things in life (yes, I'm smirking), including snaps and video cords.
How to attach the snaps depends on the kind you bought. Can you give us a brand or even a picture?
Don't you love Michaels? Alas, it can be a dangerous place. Even better is Hobby Lobby. You should have seen me literally jumping up and down when I saw a sign at our local mall announcing the building of a 5,700 square foot Hobby Lobby. I may go in and never come out.

[Nevermore]

Ahhhhhh, what I have to put up with! The kind I bought are made by Memory Makers. They are a lovely colour called "Watercolor Brite" (notice the yankee spelling). Mine would appear to be hermaphrodites as their parts are indistinguishable.

[MegB]

:eek: :D Oh, I'm dying here!!! Too much information!!!

Could it be that the male and female parts are currently commingling? So all you're seeing is one piece, but actually it's both parts connected?

[Nevermore]

Meg, that would be a consummation devotely to be wished to quote the Bard but I very much doubt it. That would mean my scrapping supplies are replenishing themselves and so far my experience has been it is strictly a money out proposition.

Actually, they are made by Making Memories and I went to their site. They suggest using one of their tools to make the hole, then smashing their backsides with an eyelet setter (not a direct quote). Fortunately, I bought an eyelet setter for my eyelets so I think I am good to go! The paper piercer is a little narrow for these babies (they have fat stems and yes, folks, size matters!) but I am sure I can find a nail set or something in my normal toolbox. So, although they are clearly labelled SNAPS they might not be the snaps everyone is thinking of because they are like brads but with pipe endings instead of stem bits that you press down. It is so very difficult to write about these things, I just don't have the vocabulary.

[akissling]

Again, where is Becky? Male and female parts, smashing backsidses!! Sorry that I can't help but I do not, yes, do not own brads!!!

[Nevermore]

Are you kidding me? Alison of the pack rat, lasertran silk and links to every craft site on the internet HAS NO BRADS? Alison, they come in cunning little clear circle packages that swivel out to let you get at them. They are cute cute cute. I may never use them but they look so darn good. You gotta buy a pack.

[kygirl]

I'm totally in love with brads. They come in awful handy when you need to attach things, especially when you don't own a fancy Xyron machine! LOL

[Nevermore]

Donna, what do you use to make the big hole? (Please, dear lord, let it be my day and don't let Becky or Robyn see this thread).

[akissling]

Oh Kim, you are certainly flirting with inappropriate comments now!!!

[kygirl]

Biting my tongue once again. If it starts bleeding, it's your fault, Kim.

I have the Making Memories Instant Setter. It has tools for punching three different size holes and then three more tools for setting the brads. I love this tool and use the hole puncher all the time.

[PamPie]

Kim, you should see the plumbing and hardware aisles at Home Depot/Lowe's--lots of male/female parts there!

[ruthpics]

I have to say that this is the funniest scrapping thread I have ever read...I wish I could add some insight, but you gals have said it all! I am grinning ear to ear, and will probably revisit this thread just so I can do it all over again...oh yeah...velcro has male and female parts too! :)

[kygirl]

I did it. All this talk of Michael's wore me down, so first thing this morning, I grabbed my 40 percent off coupon and headed uptown.

My goal was to buy rafia and brown paper wrapping so I could do this oh-so-quaint packaging of my Christmas packages. I found them just as I entered the store, but I spent another hour just roaming the aisles. I roamed the Xyron aisle three times, and on the third trip, I finally put one in my cart.

Then I had to find a sales clerk who could read the fine print on the coupon because I had left my glasses at home. Too embarrassing. Good news, though, the coupon was good on the Xyron which saved me $20. Now, all I have to do is figure out why I wanted one in the first place. :)

[Nevermore]

Donna! You are a Xyron girl now! Whooohoooo!

[akissling]

it's a slippery slope Donna, a slippery slope!!! FYI I will be in St. Louis with my family until Saturday in case anyone wants to know. Yes, they have a Michael's there and I still haven't used my coupon so maybe I can sneak out and buy something!! I am still waiting for the mailman to bring me my real, silver German glitter. Maybe I will buy something to glitter up!!

[webchyck]

Snaps and eyelets and me are not on the best of terms yet. I have not often had occasion to make use of them, and so my setting skills are weak...abysmal, really. Perhaps I will try the method you suggest, Kim...SMASHING them on the backsides...if I can ever figure out which way that is. Couldn't you at least provide visual illustration of your dilemma in identifying the male and female parts of the snaps? Perhaps you got a batch that has one or more members going through gender reassignment surgery?

[webchyck]

Congratulations, Donna, on the new member of your household!

[SteinwaysMom]

There are two types of people in the world...

The Xyron'ed and the Xyronless, the former being small, exclusive club of crafting cognoscenti. Alas, I am among the latter group, one of the ignorant masses, a mere peasant amongst Xyron royalty...:D

[kygirl]

Debra, you're a nut! A funny nut, but a nut nonetheless.

[webchyck]

Perhaps we need to take up a collection so Debra can join this elite corps?!

[ScrapAlice]

I am, unfortunately, still Xyron-less. I do wish I had bought one the first time I saw it at the Quilt Market. Two guys brought them to show, and we weren't quite sure what to do with them. Now they are everywhere! Except in my house. :( So, congrats on the new Xyron!

[happyrobyn]

Donna, what do you use to make the big hole? (Please, dear lord, let it be my day and don't let Becky or Robyn see this thread).
Oh my .... here I am ... on vacation ... minding my own business in the middle of Arkansas ... on the only Internet connection I could find and I read this thread! ROFL! Boys have penises, girld have vaginas! Big holes are made with big .......... (better not finish that sentence!) Smashing backsides ... fun from time to time! Yankee spellings... I just don't know how to reply to all of this. Can't think appropriately in this teeny hotel room with 4 kids and a passed out husband (big football game in Arkansas today!) Happyrobyn signing out!

[Mish]

Kim you must be stopped before you hurt someone, or something!!

LMAO!!!

[SteinwaysMom]

NEW HOLIDAY MOVIE RELEASE:

THE XYRON THAT ATE TORONTO

Coming soon to theaters now!

[KJ-McLean]

I use my Coluzzle knife to punch a slit when I want to use a mini-brad.