Stretchy string

Inexpensive, super vibrant, and high quality!

Pony beads

This company offers pony beads at a great price, and they come in canisters instead of those annoying plastic bags that you can't re-seal.

Importantly, there's an all-black option for the goth fam.

Acrylic markers

Acrylic markers can get pricy, but this brand offers them at an impressively low price, in a big pack, with great color options. We're talking opaque, baby!!

Craft paper

Here you'll get a lot of high-quality paper for a good price. There are so many uses for this. Table cloth that you can write on. Gift wrap. Outline your friends, crime scene style.

Sticky tabs

I'm really into hand-written notes, annotation, etc. These sticky tabs are so good because they are translucent - write what you're trying to write wihtout blocking what's underneath! (These would be fun to collage with, too.)

Safety pins

Sometimes you just want things to be *fun* but the *fun* option is way more expensive than the standard option. Not the case for these safety pins, which come in pastel colors at about the same price as plain silver!

Jars

When I did a group candle-making project, I searched and searched for jars that were aesthetically pleasing while also affordable. These were the best I found!

Wooden houses

Don't be fooled by the Christmas branding on the Amazon page; there's nothing "holiday" or religious about the way these are designed, and they'd be great for all seasons. Decorate them and put an LED tea light inside! 

Gay candy canes

If you get those wooden houses above, you can also get these and make a gay little gingerbread house. I did.