Wedding favors.

[putontheritz.livejournal.com]

Good morning everyone!  I have a question for some of you paper-crafters.

I'm getting married in about 18 months, and while I realize I'm quite a ways out from my wedding, I'm very excited about getting things organized.  My mother had the most terrific idea for wedding favors though. 

She suggested that we give out mini-recipe booklets to all our guests with about 10 recipes that are my, and my future husband's favorite.  Along with the recipe books, we are giving out small bottles of homemade vanilla extract that we're going to make as well.

Now, here's the deal.  I can either make them, which I wouldn't mind doing at all, as long as it wouldn't take me the next year and a half to make 150 of them, or I was thinking of designing the books, and just getting them printed out. 

I looked on google, and this is kinda the only thing I found, so I guess my google-fu isn't working too well:



All the little book is, is light cardboard, and paper, and two staples.  Nothing too difficult.  I know I've seen them at various churches and synagogues with different religious sentiments in them.  But where on earth are they printed?  Also, if some of you have ideas to make them easily, I would gladly welcome those ideas too.

Kitty Welcome Jar

[sedatedintolife.livejournal.com]

Warning: Slideshow after click.
( A Kitty Treats Jar Slideshow )

I hope to get to see a photo of kitty enjoying contents, but either way, I hope the "Kitty"
(yes thats the marmalade-colored's name!) gets a warm welcome =)

Jar contents : Bonito Flakes, Catnip, Mouse-toy, Misc treats, two jingle-balls in yellow and dark purple.
Time Taken: Approx 3 hours including jar stripping, painting, and hijacking label to work =D

baby blanket and fish

[asian-me.livejournal.com]

Hello. I finished the fish this morning. The polyester fill seems to be showing through but I guess that's just how it ended up. For a friend's baby.

:)

first time post, looking for sewing/costume help

[i-scribble.livejournal.com]

Hallo, all--

First, let me just say that this community is TEH AWESOME, and I hope to start showing off my craftiness sometime soon.

But until then, I have a question.

I have been searching this community (tags/memories/LJseek) and several other LJ related communities, made several Google searches, etc, etc. What am I trying to find?

A free, not-too-complicated pattern/tutorial on making a 1940s era bra. I am specifically looking for that bullet-point silhouette made famous by the WWII pinup girls.

( The Saga of my Search )

And on a completely different topic-- who puts things in the tags/memories? The original poster, a mod for this community, who? Is there any tagging/memory labeling protocol that should be followed? I don't have a problem with tagging my own posts, but I didn't want to mess up a system, should one exist. :-) Thanks again!

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[obscure-abyss.livejournal.com]

So, as usual, I'm in a bit of a Christmas mood. I was looking around for Christmas crafts I could do, and I came across this one.

Now I would love to make this but I want it to be permanent, as nobody in my family is going to want to eat stale gumdrops. So does anyone know if there is something I could spray over the whole wreath to keep the gumdrops safe from ants/other critters/heat? I did a google search but I really don't know what to search for lol.

Also, if anyone has any favorite Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas crafts, feel free to link me/explain them in a comment, as I am always looking for new ideas!

p.s. my apologies if this isn't allowed!

New Stuffage!

[workinggirl-ctv.livejournal.com]

I've finally finished and photographed some of my work-friendly shirts. They are all printed on recycled shirts, with fabric safe screen printing ink. The text design is screen printed, and the stripe pattern is modified block printed, using all recycled materials.

( for size )

Rilakkuma Amigurumi

[sharmelon.livejournal.com]

Completed just in time for the Beijing 2008 Olympics Closing Ceremony! I participated in Ravelry's Ravelympics 2008 in the Amigurumi-n-Toys Toss event. I know my colors are a bit off (I am stash-busting!), and I don't think he turned out as cute as the real thing, but still I like him nonetheless. I made a few modifications, such as using acrylic eyes instead of the crochet ones in the pattern; also after making the ears (which require the yellow piece to be created separately, and then stitched on), I didn't like that technique and so for the arms and legs, I just did a color change. Pattern is from ISBN4-391-13107-2.

question?

[somemoonlitnite.livejournal.com]

I spent this weekend creating a cassette tape wallet like this one:
http://www.chezlin.com/2008/04/cassette-tape-tutorial/
We only had clear cassette tapes so my question is what kind of paint would stay on plastic like this? I don't want to paint it and have it scratch off later. Or if you have any other ideas on how to cover it up, I would love to hear them!
I might be able to get pictures later if I can figure out how to fix my camera.
:)

Button Wreath!

[mubeimmik.livejournal.com]

I had a huge sack of buttons and a couple of hours to kill.

Photo Tutorial Here =)

MOAR hippoz

[talkproof.livejournal.com]

all stacked up and ready to go!

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