beadwork

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

Hey, everyone. This is a peyote-stitch beaded amulet bag I'm working on... I'm about 4 hours into it, and I think I've completed 1/4 to 1/3 of the pattern. It's smaller than it looks in this picture (I also hope it's prettier). It's made with Japanese seed beads and the new PowerPro thread. I made up the first few rows I did, with the little flower border, but the lower part depicted is from Carol Taylor's book Creative Bead Jewelry, where it is shown in green/black/white; someone else did the same bag in different colors here, for reference.
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(the cardboard tube is for support, if you aren't familiar with tubular peyote beadweaving, and the threads are of course ends that I need to weave into what's already there.)

Craftyness

[pixiepuff.livejournal.com]

Behold, the Hello Kitty Laptop.

I covet. Muchly.

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[believe-in-me.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there a girl here that was like majoring in crafts? If there is can you give me some info on that? I would SOOO appreciate that :)

Soap!

[thystle.livejournal.com]

My soaps!

Well some of them. I need to make the other kinds and take pictures this weekend. Then I will make a website. Then you and your friends and the whole world will order lots of soap from me and I can quit my job.

Slight wishful thinking?

Fake fur legwarmers!

[dyfferent.livejournal.com]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=868291397

I would dearly love to make something like that (but for my big old chunky legs--these would be too tight, I think). Do you think it's anything more complex than a tube with an elastic casing at the top?