Crafty Goodness In Clear Plastic Pegs!

Hi Everyone,
I know it has been a long time between posts and so much has been happening that it is so difficult to find time to sit down to type!  I almost feel like I am so off grid that there is no getting back. I am happily finding joy in the new craftspace (so much so that I hate leaving the house each morning for the real world of work) but I do because I know it's the paycheck feeds the habit! And here it is the new habit. But wait the name sounds so pretty. It like a song to my ears. Are you ready? It's RAINBOW LOOM. How bad can a habit be if the word RAINBOW is involved?  So this is how it starts, You go to family reunion (which by the way way was AWESOME!) and one of the little peeps has this plastic peg loom that you loop colored rubber band over pegs and you use a crochet hook to lock the rubber bands into a chain.  Simply put you are using basic crochet to make a bracelet.  Ok, so the darn thing has been around since 2011 and even won a CHA innovation award.(How I missed that, I can't explain!)  So the 9 year old love of my life produced a bracelet for me in about 4 minutes flat using the darn thing so I get it in my head that this is the new 2013 version of my lanyard plastic lacing days. Here is a pic of the loom:

OMG, it was love at first sight for me.  I watched a young person teach another young person how to use this little plastic loom and that to me translated to my old camp days. I asked my cousin Peggy where she got it and she told me she picked it up at Shop Rite.  Really! At the supermarket!  It is clear to see I am now living under a rock, not just a rock but a big giant rock.  I was at my Shop Rite last night! I didn't see it. What is going on?  Was I so consumed with looking for what I needed in groceries for the family picnic that I (me, Lysa) looked right past this awesome crafty goodness right at my local supermarket! Sad, I know, but wait I still am truly an INSANE crafter because I sent dear Hubs back to Shop Rite at about 8:30 a.m. on Sunday in search of the thing.  He was back in like 15 minutes with a Rainbow Loom in hand.  I was happy, but not as happy the little girl.  Oh you had to see it.  She pulled it from his hands.  (here is where I get a bit corny as I don't know which was better her opening the box or me watching her open box) The look on her face was beyond anything I could imagine.  Her smile was surly ear to ear.  I never saw a kid open a box so carefully so as not to destroy any content that lay inside the box.  I was in heaven and so was Rory.  So now I get really obsessed, I got a 9 year old who is chomping at the bit to craft and a couple of dollars in my pin money wallet. So what would any insane crafter do.  Why that would be to send the Hubs back to Shop Rite to get me a RAINBOW LOOM of my own!  Yes, sadly it true I needed one too!  OK, so it does not end there.  Now we need a lot of the awesome colored bands.  Here is a picture of that:

 Really is 7200 rubber bands to many for any household to have. Well no because that is just my stash.  Here is the picture of my bands:

ohhhh, look at the pretty colors!!

and here is Rory's stash,

That is like another 7200 bands. Wow, we are ready to make bracelets for sure. You can clearly see we are head over heels in love with the Rainbow Loom.  Here is a close up of some of the bracelets Rory made yesterday:

 If you are looking for a gift for a 8 to 14 year old (or an oldie like me) we (Rory and I) highly recommend the Rainbow Loom as we love our new Awesome Crafty Good tool! Thanks for stopping by and Rory and I are off to make some bracelets.
Lysa