call for help

[missluwanda.livejournal.com]

i'm working on decorating a tin and i have a patch i picked up at JoAnn to put on the top and add a little bit of 3-d fun. but how should i go about adhering it to the tin? would hot glue, tacky glue, or glass glue (clear silicon gel) hold better in the long run? thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Cheating is baaad

[skwairpeg.livejournal.com]

Okay grrrls, remember that butterfly bag I made? Welp, I goofed. I wasn't thinking when I made the straps, and instead of folding them in and stitching things up so the raw edges are tucked away safely inside, I was a lazy ass and just folded them in half and sewed along the egde.

Now things are fraying.

I was thinking I could cover up the fraying edges by maybe sewing some sort of ribbon or something onto the straps... but I'm just not sure if that's the best idea or not. Does anyone have an idea or two that might be better -- other than removing the straps and re-doing them, which I don't wnt to do because I don't have enough of that fabric left to make new straps...?

I promise, I'm _this_ close to figuring out how I want to work with pictures here. I have them all on my website, I just haven't figured out how to get them HERE. So anyway, http://www.skwairpeg.com/craft%20page%20links/Other%20stuff.html there's the link to the page where the pics are at -- the bag is at the very bottom of said page.

Thanks in advance, grrlies...

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[strange-charm.livejournal.com]

i made a new necklace and a pair of earrings last night. i'm a jewelry major here in philadelphia, but i haven't had much inspiration of late until now.

this pleased me so much that i'd like to show it off :)

( here it is! )

unfortunately it doesn't really fit in with what i do at school so i can't show it to my teachers as credited out of school work...

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[dearemma.livejournal.com]

anyone have a pattern for an easy purse for a beginner to knit?

Sorry for kind of crossposting...(randomquestions)

[fernandojesse.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know how to use iron-on t-shirt transfers? I lost my instructions and I'm having quite a hard time with them. Any help would be great! Thanks!

coasters.

[dearanxiety.livejournal.com]

i wish i had a digicam to post pictures, but i made coasters (found the idea in girlyhead magazing (i think that's what it's called). just bought some bathroom tiles for fifty cents each, painted them with acrylics, modged podged some pictures on, and modged podged over the top. added some felt to the bottoms and voila! they are really nice. i used vintagy looking pictures from magazines (and a rubber ducky picture and some other things). but you could use stickers, glitter, basically anything. they look great!

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[horrorflickchic.livejournal.com]

ok tomorrow is my moms birthday(i know, i waited til the last minute) and i really want to make her something because a. shes the best mom ever and b. im low on fundage and cant afford to get her something really nice..
im a photography major so i was thinking i would print her a nice picture and frame it but i just realized i did that last year so thats the reason for bad timing.

i dont want something that looks like i put it together the day before her birthday but i want to make something that is a little on the easy side.. (is that even possible?) due to time.
any suggestions, i would really really appreciate.

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[kikgrl3003.livejournal.com]

Hello all! In new and being the newbie I have a question for you all!

Does anyone know of anything I can buy to make my white metal jewelry (that was gold colored) look gold again? All the gold coloring wore off!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

GRR ROAR GRRRR!

[skwairpeg.livejournal.com]

Can someone please tell me why the (insert skwairpeg pottymouth here) my sewing machine refuses to sew through any kind of thickness whatsoever??? All I'm trying to do is fold some (and here) fabric and sew it shut, and it's not that thick that my retarded (and, erm, here) machine shouldn't be able to sew through it. I get this big clump of tangled thread on the underside of whatever I try to sew. I'm sooo ready to throw the piece of (poo) out into the street. Except it's not really a piece of shit, it's only a year old and it's a decent machine. But WTF???????? Am I supposed to use a different needle when I want to sew through doubled or tripled up fabric? And forget about denim, I already tried that I nearly chewed my lip off in frustration.

Pissed!

bracelet...

[delusionalangel.livejournal.com]

My mom loves sun faces, so I found this sun charm and asked her if she wanted it so that she could make something or if she wanted me to make something for her... she chose to have me make her something but she didn't want the usual chains that I make (6-in-1 chainmail) because that is too thick for her liking, so I went with something much simpler and came up with this:

( Pic here )