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[exousia.livejournal.com]

Where is the cheapest place to buy flat backed swarovski crystals? I'm looking for something between 8ss and 16ss. A good assortment of colours and quite a few. Looking to spend maybe $50-100.

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[to-my-wife.livejournal.com]

I'm getting married next month and am planning on making party/favour bags for our 16 guests. We're going to fill them with vegan sweets and little toys :o)

I'm thinking of doing drawstring bags using the reams of vintage fabric I have stored up, and either embroidering, appliqueing or stamping the guests' names on their bags. I'm not sure yet!

I was wondering if anyone's ever done anything similar and if they could share pics/stories of what they did, or even if you've not done anything like this - any suggestions?

Cleaning Thrift Store Pillows for Craft Use

[shadowshow.livejournal.com]

I have a bunch of fabric I'd like to make pillows out of, and I think it might actually be cheaper to buy thrift store pillows and cover them than to buy truckloads of polyfill.

But I get a little squeamish at the idea of used pillows. Any suggestions for how I would go about giving them a thorough cleaning without ruining them?

Thanks!

Marble Magnet Madness and Woes

[dependonyou.livejournal.com]

It had been about a year, maybe two, since I last made marble magnets. Previously, I had gone out of my way to use photoshop and size down the images I wanted to use and put them on a 4x6" image which I then printed at the local Walmart on photo paper. Well, I wanted to make magnets again, so I did the same thing last night. I happily hole punched my little picture circles just the way I wanted them, glued them to the magnets, and then stuck on my 'marble'. I'd done it before, it was simple, and I remembered how to get out the air bubbles easily enough.

I worked on about twenty of these before I started to look at the ones I had made earlier in the evening. For whatever reason, they were a blurred mess. I couldn't tell WHAT they were a picture of. I worried and fretted, thinking I had done something wrong. My bottle of E6000 was brand new, just opened that night. Had I done something horrificly, stupidly wrong?

Then it occured to me that I had a few circles cut out from the previous year's marble magnet efforts. I used the same glue, the same methods, and did not take my time or anything, just to see if my procedure produced the same results. It didn't. The old photo paper looked beautiful, and the picture was clear as day. It wasn't the glue. It wasn't the marbles. It was the paper.

So my question for you lovely ladies and gents is... where can I go to print out 4x6" photo paper from images on a cd that will NOT have the paper eaten up by my E6000? OR what else is there that I can do? I do not have a color printer (well, I do, but no ink and it won't print photo quality or all that well and ink is too expensive). I don't want to cut out magazine pages for magnets, because I want specific characters/images.

Details: Flat sided clear glass marbles that are not opalescent.
Carefully 'hole punched' photo paper images
Round magnets
E6000

Walmart apparently uses Kodak XTRALIFE Paper these days. So I know I need to avoid that. I just don't know where I can go to get something suitable. I was hoping to have these done for this weekend.

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ETA: You guys are amazing. So we've basically figured out that the main problem was that I used their instant photo kiosk and got inkjet prints when I need chemically treated prints. I'm going to be trying Walgreens tonight, as soon as I can find a phone number for my local to make sure they use the chemical process for online orders. Thank you everyone!

2nd anniversary

[joifulgirl.livejournal.com]

Mu husband and I will be married for two years on the 29th. The traditional gift for second anniversary is cotton and I just spent the morning making this :)




ps-
The traditional gift for the first anniversary is paper and last year I made him a collage out of the cards we got at our wedding. Some of them were so pretty and now they look even prettier cut up arranged nicely and framed. I figure I will make him something crafty every year with whatever material the gift calls for.

Quickie

[jarethrake.livejournal.com]

Looking through my old pics on photobucket, I found a picture of a Vincent Valentine finger puppet I made four or five years ago. I still think it came out awesome.:D



I never drew a face on, because I was afraid that would ruin it. And it would look better if the belt/shoulder strap thing was actually made of a separate piece of paper rather than drawn on.

Hmm.

BRB.

A custom Sparkles the Pom pin/pendant piece

[beautifulwolf.livejournal.com]

Hand-sculpted and painted Sparkles pin and pendant combo piece (Could also be used as an ornament!) This is a pin, with a loop on the back for a necklace chain, or to be hung up for display.

My daughter has already claimed this one as hers, so seems I need to make one for myself now!
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Craft ideas pretty please

[cryptic-intent.livejournal.com]

My brother fixed the lighting fixtures in our work trailer today and has left me with several multicoloured thin plastic covered wires, which come in yellow, white, black, light blue, blue, pink, and red. I want to use them for something cool but all that comes to mind is the stand-by bracelet or some sort of jewelry. They're bendable and somewhat malleable but can't exactly bend on a dime, so to speak.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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[threeeasysteps.livejournal.com]

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My great-great grandmother's knitting pattern.

[lizka.livejournal.com]

I recently visited my great aunt and was looking through the scrapbook of my great-great Grandmother who was born in 1867. She loved pasting old ads (some of them were really, really old) along with lyrics and different poems. There was a knitting pattern she had written in the book and I took a photograph of it - thought I'd share it with you all. When I get some time I'd like to try and make it!

Edit:
I'm putting all of my photographs of her scrapbook into a scrapbook album - if you'd like to see some of her old advertisements, postcards or photographs of her, you can see them here: http://pics.livejournal.com/lizka/gallery/0000g1r5 (I'm obsessed with antiques and "old things")!

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