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It's not as easy as it looks. At least not to me. But I'm having fun (except for when I do stupid things like touch the heated portion of the soldering iron or drip blazing hot solder on my leg). These pieces need to be sanded and cleaned up, but those are tasks for tomorrow. I might try to turn the bottom row into a bracelet. The colors are ( Read more... )

I am going to start this.


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In hunting for another photo, I came across these photos. I made both of these a while ago. I sure do love to play.


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In my itsy bitsy teenie weenie apartment, I moved my only table to the front room to do crafts. I like being able to look out the window while crafting. It's an utter and complete mess. Someone somewhere smartly suggested putting a cheap-o vinyl tablecloth on. Once it gets covered in all sorts of gunk (as my table has a hundred times over) ( Read more... )

My mind is all aflutter with the number of different types and styles of tin cutters. (Tin about the width of the Altoids boxes.) Can my new and shiny and slick-as-a-whistle dremel cut tin? That dremel, I tell you, she's giving me headaches. You need this part to go with that part and that part to go with this. You should start your collection ( Read more... )

I have yet to have a problem with any of my fellow building tenants. Until now. There's a new building resident who apparently likes silence as much as I do. Unlike me, he lets it be known to the whole building if things aren't silent enough for him ( Read more... )

moxiegirl or rumorofrain, do you have any scrap paper I can have for Cody to scribble on? (I'm sure he'd be happy to present you with a piece of art in return.) I hate to use perfectly good printer paper. Does anyone else know where I might find recyclable scrap scribble paper in bulk?

As you probably don't recall, during El's and my road trip to Vermont, I'll be on a hunt for trinkets and junkets to make a trinket and junket box. Yesterday, I promised a photo of the trinket and junket box I already own. Here she is in a small photo. (She's very dusty. Trinket and junket boxes are not easy to keep clean!)


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Do any of you know of a place to go for a listing of upcoming arts and/or craft fairs for New England? I googled it, but all I'm coming up with so far is either junk, outdated or pricey by-subscription-only lists.