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Three projects in One week? Totally.

Jan 21, 2008
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Oh I'm doin it! I've been pretty lazy during the winter break. Just working and playing video games. I did a few cross stitches, but one was already traded, one's on my wall holding my mail key and the others are reserved for Art Ambush.

With that being said, I have three totally different projects (and one extra on the back burner) to try and finish before school starts back up next Monday.

This was once a triumphant pillowcase. Then I mutilated it trying to make a skirt. I really shouldn't rely so heavily on patterns sometimes >_<>

This one is a package of one my favorite candies! Oh the deliciousness of the Litchi Gummy is one to be reckoned with. I'd like to make it into a zip. I think the best course of action is to sandwich the two pieces between my light weight vinyl, sew and cut off the excess. Then attach the zipper and sew it all up together. I'm crossing my fingers on this one. I've never worked with plastic or vinyl before.

AND! I totally just learned how to crochet. It's way more fun than I thought it would be. I just picked up a needle at Wal-Mart on a whim. Since there's tons of left over yarn from my Symmography project, it was a no brainer. Thanks to some awesome websites, I was able to make my first stitches. I'd like to make a simple scarf considering its ass cold over here on the East Coast >_<

The project on the back-burner is my quiet obsession with making paper. A co-worker of mine lent me a staple gun and gave me some wire to make the strainer. Alls I have to do is go get some would to make the frame and a flat tub for the pulp to strain into. Crossing fingers so I can get the materials this week!

When I don't have time to craft, I blog about people who do

Oct 9, 2007
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So Tuesdays and Thursdays are pretty full school days. Class from 8am-5pm with a break in between. My boyfriend is class till 8pm which is teh suck. I have work after school tomorrow...double plus suck. So tonight is homework night. Damn you priorities.

Here's some stuff to keep you busy:

The Pink of Perfection is a great how to site that does more that just crafty stuff. I get lost on this site forreal. I think the record into a mail organizer made it on my To-Craft List.

EcoEtsy is a group my cousin-in-law Sarah founded. It helps promote ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle when crafting and shipping. There are some awesome ideas here and as a group is starting pretty strong.

The ever lovely EtsyLabs always has something fun for us to do. The tutorial I linked to is actually really high up on my list. We have accumulated so many plastic bags from grocery shopping and the like...I just hate to throw them away knowing they're just going to sit in a landfill for years to come. This is a perfect way to reuse and repurpose! Do this if you like...if not...send all your plastic bags to meeeeeee ^_^

Also, I'm working on something cool and way hard for school. I'm in a relief printmaking class this semester. We did some woodcut, linocut (my favorite!) and now we're onto wood engraving. It's what they used back in the day to make letters and illustrations for printing presses. It'll make your eyes cross and back hurt, but looks amazing when done right. I'm working on a Singer 201-2. The kind of Singer my Grandmom used. This is the photo being used:

Minus the collectibles type of course >_< Hopefully it'll turn out ok.

It's been done...but I still like it

Oct 7, 2007
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So I tried something that I've wanted to do for a while now. Making bowls from records. I know it's been done before...a lot...but it's still way fun! Especially since the Salvation Army down the street sells old crappy records for .25. So here's what it did!

I picked an awesome record. How amazingly retro is that label?! Plus My Fair Lady is a great movie. Rent it and educate yourself.

Record went on top of an oven safe pot/bowl and then on a cookie sheet. We turned the pan upside down because the bowl was short and we thought it might melt on the sheet.

Tada! After taking it out, I just put it in another bowl and smoothed it out as best I could. I think it looks pretty kickin for a first attempt. Here are the others:

Hooray!

Definitely fun times if you've got some crappy records and a few minutes to spare. We're getting a lot of ideas from this too, so hopefully I'll get back on the ball with writing often.