Faux Stained Glass

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Most women nest while pregnant.... I craft!



More fun things to do with picture frames... I had a particularly ugly frame so I took the glass out and made a sun catcher.

Tulip fabric paint to make the "leading" and food colored glue for the "stained glass"

I changed the wire frame part later to make it prettier.



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Purdy New Stuff

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So I finally got around to taking some pics of a bunch of stuff I've made in the last 6mths. I won't post it ALL here, because it will be an overload ((I'll post the rest another day)) 

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X-posted here + there on account of feeling like showing off ;D

Palm Cross Tutorial, version 2

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The tutorial for the second kind of palm cross (see below) that I made is now up on my wordpress blog.  Please feel free to give it a try, and let me know what you think! (Hopefully if you still have palms left from Sunday morning, they're not too dried up by now -- if they are, I'd give them a good soak in water first.  You can probably also try making these with any other long, flat floral leaf...)

fur-ball

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A while back, there was a video going 'round of a guy making cat toys by rolling bunches of his cat's fur into...an excessively organic shape. This generally elicited revulsion from the viewers. But, being a warped sort, I suspected that the main problem was the shape. After all, there's a fancy name for yarn made of dog fur and it's terribly expensive. Was cat fur any more disgusting? So with spring shedding season came:


The furball (with bobbin for size comparison)
It's made just like rolling clay into a ball, gently compressing and rolling until it reaches a good size and density. Voila! A lightweight, claw-permeable, natural fiber cat toy that rolls. And if that's still too disgusting, one could always use sheep fur instead.
( And this would be incomplete without kitty pictures of the ball in use )

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Just a couple pieces of jewelry I made not too long ago. I actually have like six more pieces to post I just haven't had a chance to photograph them. I think I will do that when I get home today because honestly they are so much better than these. However, without further ado.

A Teaser:


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My heart will go on...

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sterling silver
all made by jamaika_

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Random clay stuffs I've worked on lately


( a few big pics beneath the cut )

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Just a couple of things. I gave these to my aunt before I had a chnce to snap a picture.  The pictures she took are a little light but you will get the drift  I made her a slumped wine bottle cheese tray in my kiln.  The picture doesnt show it well, but I etched stripes on the glass after it was fired.  There was a lot of trial and error with these, because I had no idea hot long or how hot to fire.  By the time I did get it right, my husband decided he was too impaitent to wait for the glass to cool before looking and my first perfect one blew up.  This one I managed to fire AND keep away from my hubby lol.

The other pic is a welded bird.

Dying Polyester?

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Greetings, ladies and gents. I'm a fabric dying novice, and in need of some advice.

My partner has a pair of khaki slacks that have seen better days. The pants themselves are in good structural shape, but they have many stains that are rather ancient. (He used to work for Circuit City Firedog installing TVs and PCs, so he had to crawl under desks and entertainment centers a lot. Thus, stainage.)

I discovered after reading the back of a box of RIT that it says, "Not recommended for 100% polyester, acrylic, etc, etc, etc." Not knowing off the top of my head what the pants were made of, I refrained from purchasing the dye in favor of going home and checking the label. You guessed it: 100% Poly-freakin'-ester. *sigh*

So far, RIT has been the only dye I can find locally. Several searches on Google have yielded mixed results. Some forums say, "Yes, it can be done! You just need SUPER BOILING WATER!" Others say, "Nope, the fibers are basically plastic, so it's a no-go." Still others say, "Yes, you can dye polyester, but you need to use rubbing alcohol in place of water, especially if you're using RIT." (That last bit came from a Cosplay forum, so I guess those folks would know what they're doing. . .)

So. . .which is it? Does anyone on here know how to successfully dye polyester? I know going from light to dark isn't easy in any case, so I was only hoping for a gray-to-charcoal range of color, here. Not sure if that matters, but I figured any information I could give would better aid you guys in answering. Thanks!

amigurumi: stardust

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this is my first original amigurumi.

meaning i wrote the pattern and everything :]

 

he's a kittycat named stardust :]

im really happy with him, considering it's my first pattern, and i've only been crocheting for three weeks.

<3

New journal

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I hope this post is OK, please delete if it isn't. I just wanted to let you all know that I have created a glass-related personal journal, where I will be chronicling my life in glass. I will be using that journal to post here from now on, so those of you that have known me as doogloose, will now know me as lampworkbyamy. I am hoping to make this glass blog into a good resource for other glass artists (or, anyone who is interested in the lampwork process). In addition to photos of my work, I will be posting as much detailed information about how I made things, and what worked, what didn't, links to tutorials I used or photos that inspired me. I hope that sometimes I can post my own tutorials, as well! So please feel free to add me (lampworkbyamy) as a friend if you are interested in any of this.

Doll clothes

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My friend Anna turns 8 today! I made her some outfits for her American Girl doll.
( dollie goodness )

neeeeed good present ideas!

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So, the boyfriends birthday is coming up in four days, and since his family is too lame to get him anything, I feel like I need to make/give him lots of things, to make up for that fact.
But.. for once in my life I am lost for ideas.
I am making him a sketchbook.. hes an artist, and I bought him a book and a few little things... but I don't feel like it's enough!

I need your crafty genius minds to help me!
Some info on him:
-He loves thrash, and electronica music. He works for Xbox, designing characters & he makes album covers, too. He loves wolves, 80s movies, anything neon, sunglasses, breakdancing, zombies, and our cat, Mr Delicious.
I have a ridiculous amount of supplies too. Buttons, beads, fabrics, chenille, wood plaques, a million kinds of paper... and morrreee.
and i work fast. so any crazy seemingly hard idea youve got... i wanna hear it!!


HELP. :( Please? It's his 21st birthday too.. .so I want it to be awesome.



So it's not text only & boring:
( something I finished last night )

x-posted from www.knitnicoleknit.blogspot.com

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I did a craft show on Saturday, a fund raiser for the Canadian Cancer Society.
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sparkly-dooooooo



this guy was fun to make. i have been thinking a lot lately about the new season of amigurumi that i am going to be making - where i want the designs to go, how i want them to look, etc. i hope to have an awesome amigurumi year. we'll see!
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something crafty

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I thought I would post a couple of things I made lately. Some knitted baby items and a card I made. Let's see if I can remember the code to cut. :)Click ( here )

Mushroom Fairy in front of Night Sky Handpainted Pendant

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I did a new pendant and I totally LOVE IT! I have done a few more with different hair colors and I am just loving them. She is soooo much fun to paint :)

The pendant is made out of paper clay and hand painted.

Pendant measures 3 inches long with wire bail included and 1 7/8 inches wide.

I will use up my yarn...

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So I've been on a quest to use up at least 50% of my yarn stash in the next 3-ish years (that '101 things in 1,001 days').

And, since I'm a bit rusty, I thought I'd start out with the basics - a scarf! It's made with purple and pink Bernat Boa, and unfortunately I had to buy another skein. So I used up three and bought one, two down!

( Tastefully 'naked' model with any naughty bits artfully covered with the scarf )

Then somewhere along the way I bought nine more skeins of yarn. So I was plus six... time to pull out the big guns! Giant needles and four skeins of Patrons Pebbles (which I got on sale for $0.97 each) and I had a shawl!

( Another shot of the same model, with the shawl this time - still no naughty bits showing... )

So now I'm only up two skeins... o.O