Earring Stitch Markers

The Man-Cub and I were wandering around the local discount store yesterday - it tries to be like a Big Lots only on a much (much much) smaller scale - when I spied these earrings - lots of them on a rack labeled 2/$1.00 - and I saw - not tacky earrings - but stitch markers - you see it too don't you...

All it took was a couple of snips of the pliers to free the little jump rings for their intended purpose...

easy peasy...

...so I got 16 stitch markers that will fit up to a size 9 needle - for $1.00 - I can even use the larger plastic rings for supersize stitch markers for like size 13 or 15 needles...

I snipped the little ring off of these buttons and I'll use them as embellishments for some scrapbook page in the future...

...so wasn't that very economical and not at all wasteful of me...