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Don't forget, Chat tonight at 6 pm Pacific Standard Time. Bette is going to be having a super secret word contest, she's picked a word, and anyone who says it will get beads. Last week she came in with a secret identity, and said anyone who guessed who she was would win beads. So I've got charlottes coming to me in the mail!
I'm talking to R about holiday gifts, I've got friends who tend to spend too much on gifts that never get out of their boxes. This year? I took the handmade pledge, and I'd rather have handmade, but if that's just not an option, I want gift certificates to indie businesses, like Microcosm Publishing or if Alternative Tentacles offers one, Alternative Tentacles.
Me? Well.. as Mike says, with the tween and the teen, all handmade isn't an option. I can't crochet a working GH 3 game and controller even if Mike does do the electronics. But I will crochet a few more pouches for W, who uses them for all sorts of things. Not sure what I'm making for E yet. I'm making my dad a blanket like the ones we use here, and the kids are going to a paint pottery place and painting a mug for his milk and a plate for his cookies to give him along with a box of oreos.
I want want want the DIY Screenprinting book from Microcosm. One episode of ThreadBangers was about how to make simple screens with embroidery hoops, I've seen it on the net before and always wanted to try it, but now that E's seen it, she wants to try it too, so chances are most of my friends will be getting something screenprinted.
Doesn't that look fun??
In my last entry, jenna_thorn left this comment...
"For a foldable, squashable, travel set, broad grossgrain ribbon in red and black, eight strips woven tabby then stitched (or glued) with squarish bits of ribbon snipped off to be the pieces.
Tends to float off in a breeze, but is light enough to fold up in a jeans pocket and go anywhere."
I like the idea, but not with the ribbon snips because they would float off too easily, but maybe combine it with washers that will fit the squares painted to match and a long narrow ribbon to tie it up that the washers could be threaded on?
I'm talking to R about holiday gifts, I've got friends who tend to spend too much on gifts that never get out of their boxes. This year? I took the handmade pledge, and I'd rather have handmade, but if that's just not an option, I want gift certificates to indie businesses, like Microcosm Publishing or if Alternative Tentacles offers one, Alternative Tentacles.
Me? Well.. as Mike says, with the tween and the teen, all handmade isn't an option. I can't crochet a working GH 3 game and controller even if Mike does do the electronics. But I will crochet a few more pouches for W, who uses them for all sorts of things. Not sure what I'm making for E yet. I'm making my dad a blanket like the ones we use here, and the kids are going to a paint pottery place and painting a mug for his milk and a plate for his cookies to give him along with a box of oreos.
I want want want the DIY Screenprinting book from Microcosm. One episode of ThreadBangers was about how to make simple screens with embroidery hoops, I've seen it on the net before and always wanted to try it, but now that E's seen it, she wants to try it too, so chances are most of my friends will be getting something screenprinted.
Doesn't that look fun??
In my last entry, jenna_thorn left this comment...
"For a foldable, squashable, travel set, broad grossgrain ribbon in red and black, eight strips woven tabby then stitched (or glued) with squarish bits of ribbon snipped off to be the pieces.
Tends to float off in a breeze, but is light enough to fold up in a jeans pocket and go anywhere."
I like the idea, but not with the ribbon snips because they would float off too easily, but maybe combine it with washers that will fit the squares painted to match and a long narrow ribbon to tie it up that the washers could be threaded on?