Lord of the Rings Cloak Pin

[mamallama.livejournal.com]

My Mom is a major Lord of the Rings fan, and her birthday's coming up. I looked all over for a reproduction of the pin worn by the Fellowship of the Ring members, but the cheapest I could find is $60 -- out of my price range for now. So I set about trying to create one, myself. I finally got two versions made: this one made of pressed tin

and another (I'll post a pic later) of Sculpey. Actually, the Sculpey version turned out better, except that the vines and curly-cues are a little too fragile to be made out of Sculpey. (Any suggestions on something I can use for that that will bake in with the sculpey OK?)

And, no, I'm not selling these, so don't anyone yell at me for copyright. I am only making this for my Mom, and possibly one for a friend whose birthday I just missed (oops!) I wouldn't think of selling these, although I am tempted to make some neato floral and leafy things inspired by this sort of design to sell at our school craft fair.

Pricing Questions

[zylle-blue.livejournal.com]

In the next few months I plan to make a couple important sewing related purchases. But I'm living on a budget and I don't want to pay too much.

Here's my question, what is a reasonable price to pay for:

*Pinking Shears
*Rotary Cutter & Self Healing Mat

yes, this is cross-posted in hopes of finding good answers

yet another record clock

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i made a record clock to donate to the radio station i work at. i like how it turned out. ( check it out )

cross-posted in kitty_ears and knitting

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My first non-scarf (knitted) project=D

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[mertvie-tsveti.livejournal.com]

I just want to say that altering books is not as easy as it looks! I have spent the last two days working on it and all I have done is two pages, well one and a half, the second one isn't quite done yet. I have probably used half a bottle of glue and the pages are drying all wrong and wrinkly ugh! :-/ At least I finally got some books to alter...

I will be posting pictures as soon as I finish a lot more and if my patience holds out ::deep breath::