sleeping in style!

[rebel-princess.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow I'm getting a puppy!!

It's actually for my mom, her birfday gift, but I'm so excited!

So excited in fact that I had to make something for her (the puppy)
I went shopping looking for dog beds, but all are so.. plain and mucho money.
That's when I got the bright idea to make a doggie bed :)

I looked around on the net and found a cool one to use as a guide.
It's made from a cardboard box and lots of glue, paint, fabric and frustration. :)
lets hope the puppy fits! lol



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commissioned dolling:

[comearoundruby.livejournal.com]

alicia was commissioned by a lovely lovely girl named...alicia. i was only told to "make it look like me" and "id love an alice in wonderland theme" and "oh a flower in my hair!" --- i did the best i could with such criteria.

alicia has restoredoll.com hair which is pretty much the exact same hair as barbie and unspeakably soft and silky and just plain nice. her shirt is seven or eight illustrations from alice's adventures in wonderland printed on blue vellum, torn into pieces and découpaged on to the doll. which turned out much better than i originally thought that it would.

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[factvsromance.livejournal.com]

i did this last summer with epoxy to glue the sea glass to the $7 mirror frame from marshall's. i like it, but i think it's kind of boring hanging on my wall right now. . .

what do you think about painting around the sea glass so that the wood color is different? like turquoise perhaps? just to make it brighter and more interesting? eh, eh?



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also, i have soooo much sea glass (i'm always picking it up when i go to the beach for lack of anything else to to- not much a sunbather, as can be seen by my pastiness. . .) i think i'm going to make some earrings like i saw a few days ago by another poster! thanks for the idea! i hadn't thought of anything like that. . .

Some recent things I have made

[morrigann.livejournal.com]

These are a few of the pieces of jewelry that I have been working on lately. I am trying to solve the lighting issues and think I might have actually figured it out at least partially. Tell me what you guys think. This is my first post so be gentle with me.

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Some of my other recent creations

[morrigann.livejournal.com]

These are some of the other items I made recently...

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dog collar..

[lindseythefork.livejournal.com]

My dog's collar is way plain.. I would love to do some embroidery, but it's a *thick* nylon material. Are there any ways to spiff up a nylon collar? I think a Sharpie would bleed all over it. Hmm..

yarns I spun...

[snapcrafty.livejournal.com]

I haven't posted here in a long time. I thought I would share some handspun, hand-dyed yarns I made recently. I hope you like!

"like a rainbow" domestic, Merino, Corriedale, Falkland rainbow wools

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[dream-and-sugar.livejournal.com]

Kitty is a baby bunny, and baby bunnies are called "kittens", but most of them aren't green. Kitty is green because he likes eating lots of grass and green crayons.

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Yup, finally got my pattern perfected, and only on my 8th try! -_-;;

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[kwidjibo13.livejournal.com]

hello all, this is my first post in any craft community... oh dear. im an LJ idiot so heres the link to some earrings i made today...

http://www.kodakgallery.com/BrowsePhotos.jsp?&collid=173802280106

anyway i hope you like them, and sorry if the pics are blurry!

I am sure you guys wish I would stop already....

[morrigann.livejournal.com]

Here is more jewelry all descriptions are under the piece they describe

( I have been busy today )

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[lefthandpinkie.livejournal.com]

Sorry there are no pictures, only a question.

I'm trying to make some drop spindles, I have wheels that have a 5/16th inch hole in them and I have dowels that are only 4/16th across. I've searched at Lowes and Home Depot only to find 4/16th inch dowels. I KNOW there is a way to make this work, I just don't know it.

What could I use to to maybe wrap around that section of the dowel to make it fit snug? I've got some 7800 adhesive that dries clear, I thought about putting it around the dowel and then just sticking it in but then the dowel would sit on just one side of the hole and it'd be offbalanced which I def. do NOT want.

Any suggestions? Ideas?

Craftness!

[loony-lola.livejournal.com]

Woo! I actually was crafty! I made a hoodie using one from salvation army for a pattern. Oh and i have a shirt made with no pattern that i made about a week ago!
5 Pics beihnd the cut-Dial uppers warned!
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ALl comments and Critisms appriciated!

modge podge question

[camille-a-lily.livejournal.com]

i have a frame that i want to glue putt putt tickets to and im not sure how to do it. i thought about hot glue but i think the frame is plastic and i dont want to melt it. i have a bottle of modge podge i got on clearance and was wondering if this would work. its the fabric modge podge and the tickets are paper and the frame is plastic. would this work? ive never used modge podge so i dont know how it works and the differences between all of them. i have the sparkle one too, but i dont think my boyfriend is big on sparkly things. im doing it tonite so i will post pictures as soon as im done.

thanks in advance you super crafty crafters!

Purple fabric dyed stuff

[j9crafts.livejournal.com]

I managed to get Sharpie ink all over a white shirt...
Before:


( After, and some other dyed things... )

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[cydniey.livejournal.com]

i just got back from michaels and wanted to pass on that they have simple rubber stamps in some cool designs for $1 each. from the "stamp value" collection. they were in a wire bin near the check out counters.

Pirate swap crafts

[misskittycrafts.livejournal.com]

This is my first post ever under this name - I'm also nopants - I decided to get a crafty journal! These pictures are of some things that I did for a craftster swap a while back. I forgot to take pictures, but luckily the recipient had a camera.


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Glues

[quackkwak.livejournal.com]

Just to introduce myself, I'm Samah. I've been a member of this community for a while now and posted a few times before, but not recently.

I had a question on using glue, specifically for paper. What kind of glue is best to use for very thin paper, i.e. newspaper or tissue, so it won't crinkle or fold? I'm just looking to apply it on smooth flat surfaces (probably some kind of cardboard). Rubber cement is the best thing I can think of; I've never tried spray adhesive or anything like that. Suggestions?

Next time you are in NYC... BOCAGE!

[sparklegoddess.livejournal.com]

Hey Crafty Ladies...
Next time you are visiting New York City, be sure to visit Bocage in the Lower East Side. They carry vintage trimmings, jewelry supplies and other unique and hard to find craft supplies.

http://www.bocagenewyork.com/

painting plastic

[disclaimher.livejournal.com]

Is anyone familiar with a brand of paint I could look into for painting plastic? I need the type I can brush on, not spray paint.

Who else out there loves black velvet?

[indignant1.livejournal.com]

How about a hat out of the stuff?

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Quick Question

[mon-seul.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry if this has been posted before, and if it has, you can delete it.
But I wanted to do some decoupage. Since I'm broke, I wanted to use stuff I already have. would any kind of glue work, or do I have to get a special kind. I remember doing something like it when I was younger, and I used Elmer's glue. Is that ok? And now that I think of it, is hot glue ok to use?

Thanks in advance for any help. :)

Unoriginal idea, original stencil.

[bescenenotherd.livejournal.com]

I made my dad's father's day present.
He's a computer administrator for my school district, and he has a cheesy sense of humor.
So I thought he'd appreciate this.



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