Jacques!

[nimoy.livejournal.com]

Jacques is a baby Kraken. Somehow separated from his mother, he is slowly becoming accustomed to life among people. Jacques is rather harmless & enjoys watching the Discovery Channel & reading sailing novels.

I'm in the middle of a Cpt. Cousteau phase.

Hexagon crochet

[beaniesue.livejournal.com]

I started bringing my crochet projects to work since it is colder now and I don’t really want to go out and about during lunch. I crocheted this hexagon during my lunch break yesterday. ( pictures and more info )

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[h473-l0v3.livejournal.com]

I sort of need advice. I love drawing with markers but I have such a hard time finding markers that have alot of different colours like skin tone etc. And they have to be thin tip. Anyone know a brand or where I could get thin tip markers. The craft stores I go to just have those markers where there like 40dollars for a small pack but there not really what im looking for.

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[evieethelgarlnd.livejournal.com]

Hello all,

I was wondering if it is possible to dye sued? I have these milkshake Kenneth cole suede boots with purple leather on the inside and the outside is this weird mustard color that doesn't quite match with the colors I wear. I wanted to dye it a brown or black. Is this possible?

Here is a picture of what the boots look like:

Raw Book :: Stigmata Jesus

[talentshow.livejournal.com]

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Originally uploaded by thekateblack.

This is as close as I'm going to get to a Christmas specific line.

I love this photo I took this past spring. There's a space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where the owners restore Catholic statuary, and I shot this Jesus when he was drying on the sidewalk.


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[[ RAW BOOK :: Stigmata Jesus ]]

- 6.25" x 3.5" (16 cm x 9.5 cm)
- 160 pages.
- Bound with blood red waxed Irish linen thread.

The plushie Batarang.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

I throw it at the TV when stupid things happen.

I know, I know, I'm a big dork.

Holiday Stocking

[drowningmermaid.livejournal.com]

I made a stocking for someone on my flist's baby who will be celebrating her first birthday and technically second christmas this year.

In the rush to send it off as a surprise, I forgot to take pictures.
She got it this morning and posted the pics this afternoon.

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Dyeing and replacing a zipper

[spiltpaint.livejournal.com]

I have a brown college sweatshirt with embroidered/sewn on pink lettering, and shoes with a leather applique (see pictures)


except mine is brown and pink



I want to dye or colour over the pink lettering/logo on both, but I am not sure how to approach it. I thought maybe permanent marker for the shoes, but wasn't sure that it would work for the sweater. Are there ways to spot-dye a garment? And would permanent marker stay on leather?

I also have a zip-up sweater with a broken zipper. I'm not much of a sewer, but was wondering if there are simple/fun/unique ways to (easily) replace a zipper? Buttons? Ribbon? Or should I just take it to a tailor and have the zipper taken out and replaced with a new one?

Thanks so much!

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bag question....

[mercy-mile.livejournal.com]

Well, I had my little man on the 11th! Yay! Anyway, i'd been doing some crafts involving a number of plain white onesies that I aquired for him (still not done with them either, lol). But now I'm onto a new challenge. While at the hospital, i received one of those free diaper bags that they give you when you have a baby. It's nothing special, it's just a plain black diaper bag. It didn't come with a changing pad or anything. Well, I was thinking about either turning it into a purse OR (and I might go with this idea instead...) I might use it as a clothing bag for his clothes for whenever we go any place for a weekend or something like that. Now what my dilemma is... it's so damn plain!!! It's just solid black. I don't do embroidery, so that's out. But I do have a slight obsession with fabric paint. So what I want to do is put some kind of really nifty design on it. No flowers or anything girly or babyish... My little man is a total rock star, lol. So I want something sorta hardcore, punkish, rock star etc. Does anyone have any tips or idea's? Or if anyone knows of any websites with some designs?

Nintendo cushions ahoy!

[to-my-wife.livejournal.com]

( Two Nintendo cushions I made for my boy )

NYC Crafters

[karenadverb.livejournal.com]

Does anyone in NYC know where I could get some peacock feathers?

xo,
karen

Christmas ornaments I made, plus more burp cloths, plus some metalic easter eggs

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[malicious-pengy.livejournal.com]

What is in pincushions? Honestly? My entire life, I've wondered why they sell those ugly, cheap pincushions to people who sew. Now, I would like to make one of my own. I'm just not sure what would make it the right hardness to stick stuff into. I checked the memories, but I didn't like the pincushion there.

Cape?

[cadet-part2.livejournal.com]

Hello! As the winter months get colder (and I get broker), I have been wanting more and more every day to make myself a cape that is both cute and functional. I have some ideas myself, but does anyone have any patterns/ideas for cute designs/materials, whether from scratch or otherwise? 
Here are a couple of examples of what I'm thinking of:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e195/walfinz/13528906_31_b.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e195/walfinz/13521554_04_b.jpg
Thanks!

just made this.....

[izzabetta.livejournal.com]

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