So like, I love Settlers of Catan.  But the freaking 7 cardboard boxes you lug around, mostly full of air and a mixed up array of production number chits, kind of cramps my style.  My style, which is decidedly more… flavory.

I never did get my act together last summer and create my own hand-crafted deluxury 3D sculpted Settlers set, but I did do something else a couple weeks ago.  I made our settlers set fancy.

I bought a decorate ‘home accent’ kind of box from Hobby Lobby.  One that seemed kind of cool and old-timey, and would fit the largest element.  This is maybe a little larger than one of those metal lunch boxes.   We had to root through the selection in the store though – many on the shelves were damaged or warped in some way.

 

We laid out all our Settlers stuff – everything we’d need for the 5 to 6 Player Cities & Knights expansion (our preferred mode), and got it all sorted out and it all fit super duper.

Also purchased at Hobby Lobby was a little bundle of quilting squares – one bundle had 4 of the six colors I’d need, in an 18″x18″ square fabric – plenty to make some simple draw-string bags to replace the plastic baggies. For the brown and white, I had some fabric already in my scraps box.

Draw-string bags are super simple to make.

And now I feel very fancy indeed.  Now I can carry around this super nerdy game in true nerd fashion: a nearly role-play level of old-timey Catan Crafty flavor.

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