Ok so this is my first tutorial so please be kind!
I give to you the Saucy Lamp

 
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You will need:
- cereal box
- pin or sharp needle
- glue gun
- paper glue
- print out of your design
- some kind of light source ( I used red Xmas tree lights)
- scissors or craft knife

Step One
First what you need to do is decide what kind of design you want to put on your lamp.
I chose a vintage tattoo design of a naked lady.
Then you need to blow up your picture in photoshop or any other image editing software to roughly the size of an A4 sheet of paper, that's 21 × 29,7cm or 8.3 × 11.7in, or you could use a Letter size sheet of paper that will do just fine as well.
If you're using letters on your design you need to flip the image before you print it.
Once you get the size right print that baby out.

Step Two
So now you have your image printed you need to roughly cut it out and set it aside for a minute. Now take your cereal box and carefully open it up at the seams(where it's glued shut). Lay it out, printed side facing you and use the paper glue to stick your image on the box where you would like it to be. It doesn't necessarily need to be in the middle, depending on your design you could place it anywhere on the box.

 
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Step Three
Now, take your pin/needle and carefully start pushing it through the outline of your design. You might want to put some holes inside the design too, to highlight shading or depth.



 
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Step Four
Once your design is all punched out, take your scissors or craft knife and cut a small rectangle or square on one of the bottom side corners of the box. This is where your light source cable will come out from, so you can plug it in.

Step Five
Take your glue gun and stick the box back together only you're going to put the printed side on the inside, leaving the gray side showing. Don't glue the top opening shut, you need this open to put your light source in the box!



Step Six
Place your light source in the box, plug it in and enjoy your new lamp!

 
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Hope you find this tutorial useful and if you have any questions leave a comment, and if you make one then I'd love to see it!

hope the images work now!

The boy's mom had an operation on her foot and I made her this little fella to make her feel better and as a get well soon present.

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I guess this is where this belongs, anyhoo I've had this desk chair for about 2 years now, after I rescued it from the side of the road and all this time I've been wanting to re-upholster it but I guess I didn't have the guts till now.
so I had some pink vinyl lying around that I'd bought for another project that never happened and thought ok it's high time I used it...
this is what it looked like before:

and after:

I still want to cover the arms with knit/crochet "sleeves" mainly because I ran out of vinyl, but it might look interesting and the sleeves will be washable, I plan to put buttons on them so they're removable. If you think I've never done anything like this before I'm quite pleased with it, it's got it's flaws but hey next time I know what to do and won't make the same mistakes...Now all that's left is to get that plastic smell off of it... O_O


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this one is made with plarn and a flower loom, glued to a chopstick and finished with a button.


and these are made with wool and a flower loom and glued to a hair clip.

as always comments are most welcome!!!

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Video Game themed party=pac man!



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made a plush bunny for my baby niece, I'm going to visit her tomorrow =) man, was it hard to turn inside out and stuff those ears! I've seen a similar design somewhere but haven't kept the link so if you know the creator please let me know so I can link to them.


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just your basic cheapo clear plastic shower curtain cut up into different shapes and sewn together to make tidies! add a suction cup hook to hang and you're set to go!

I'm sure I've seen this somewhere else before but it slips my mind at the moment...
anyway here are some woven coasters made from cut up milk cartons...


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here's another one
(the theme was "ultra marine")

and the action shot