Shiny shopping!
Yesterday someone told me about a bead shop in town I have never heard of, Azillion Beads. Turns out it is on Conger right by Oregon Leather, so I checked it out. Very cool place!! Lots of nice beads of all sorts, including many things I'd never seen before, and the prices seemed fairly reasonable. Lots of beads and findings in copper, which one doesn't see as much. I picked up a little french wire to play with, which I just learned about from Alaria--it can be clipped up and used like bullion for embroidery. I'm excited to have another bead shop in town (though I personally need more beads like the proverbial hole in the head); I've gotten pretty familiar and bored with Harlequin's stock, and tend to bounce off their prices.
Picked up more thin leather for book covers (Oregon Leather's scrap bins are wondrous, but unfortunately leadeth one into temptation). However, the other item I need for the book project is unfortunately turning into a Quest. The fastening strip is supposed to get attached to the cover with something my instructor called a canoe nail--a small nail with a hollow shaft and triangular flanges; you poke it through a drilled hole and peen it flat on the back (basically an ancestor to the staple, I think). So far, though, neither Jerry's nor Eugene Fastener has even heard of it, so I guess I'll have to do some calling around. I have no idea what normal people use it for, which would help me figure out where to look. Anyone have any thoughts--maybe something else I could use? (A normal small nail, I guess, if all else fails.) I hate it when seemingly simple things turn into Quests...especially since we're so close to being able to finish the books!
Edit: it appears that canoe nails are in fact used for building canoes and other wooden boats, but I'm still not sure where to get 'em.
Edit: nail problem solved! See below.
Picked up more thin leather for book covers (Oregon Leather's scrap bins are wondrous, but unfortunately leadeth one into temptation). However, the other item I need for the book project is unfortunately turning into a Quest. The fastening strip is supposed to get attached to the cover with something my instructor called a canoe nail--a small nail with a hollow shaft and triangular flanges; you poke it through a drilled hole and peen it flat on the back (basically an ancestor to the staple, I think). So far, though, neither Jerry's nor Eugene Fastener has even heard of it, so I guess I'll have to do some calling around. I have no idea what normal people use it for, which would help me figure out where to look. Anyone have any thoughts--maybe something else I could use? (A normal small nail, I guess, if all else fails.) I hate it when seemingly simple things turn into Quests...especially since we're so close to being able to finish the books!
Edit: it appears that canoe nails are in fact used for building canoes and other wooden boats, but I'm still not sure where to get 'em.
Edit: nail problem solved! See below.