I made this for my grandfather for Christmas...I really hate chain stitch binding..it seems toooo flimsy! But it is quick, and he lives 2000 miles away, and I procrastinate! 



The inside pages are some fancy-schmancy leftover scraps of Arches Text...the brown/orange doublesided mulberry is from Jo-anns scrapbooking section (it's glued to thicker paper and is admittedly pretty neat-o and much easier than gluing two sheets of mulberry paper together) and the plaid is also from Jo-ann's scrapbooking section.  The finished book was about 4 inches tall.

I don't have a "tut" for it...I took a bookbinding class in college & just sort of go by memory & how it looks/feels.

this was done Photoshop and Illustrator...photo graphs cleaned up, posterized & cleaned up again in Photoshop and then traced & re-colored in Illustrator. It's the first thing I've done outside of work in a WHILE so it was super fun because doing stuff for work is no fun!
tentatively my Christmas card...printed on antique-white cardstock. I'll probably change the text around though because it's bothering me

This is the second project I've done in crochet...I used Patons Brilliant Black Dazzle with this pattern but did not add the "mitten" part. They are a bit misshapen but they keep my paws warm and still let me type, AND they sparkle. So they work for me

I made a mummy costume based on 365halloween's tutorial. I won 1st place (and $100!) at work and had way too much fun making it...and a lot more fun being a mummy all day

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I made a mummy costume based on this fabulous tutorial. I used a pair of boys white long underwear, sleeves cut off, dyed in tea; cheesecloth dyed in tea, and unbleached gauze.  I ended up sewing all of the gauze (except for six 3 yd strips, these got sewed to my shoulders to wrap around my arms & head) to the long undies, solely to save time. I have to be at work pretty early and knew I wouldn't have the time to do any wrapping. I used about 7 yards of gauze and 3 yards of cheesecloth, I probably could have used more.

It was really fun to make and even more fun to wear!

A lot of people thought I bought it, and were stunned to hear that I made it.  I ended up winning 1st prize & $100 at work - I'm still really (but pleasantly!) surprised because I didnt' think making a costume was such a big deal!!!

My only regret is that I didn't really spend enough time on makeup...I had the makeup, but not the time. I used a lot of black eyeliner & powder, and some green, and white powder, but didn't have time for anything really elaborate

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thank you for the suggestions! I wish I would have planned it better because going all Egyptian with it would have been really fun, but I just wasn't able to find/make a good crown or headdress. I'll probably wear this costume again - it was really fun! if I do I'm definitely going to go more egyptian with accessories and jewelry.

But, here's a side view of what I did. I'm obsessed with pigtails and pigtail-like structures, and they also helped to keep the gauze wrapped around my head. Probably not the best hairstyle for a mummy,  but I like it anyway

Well, first, I am not a  Beatles fan at ALL, so this might not really resemble the band very accurately. My sister loves them, and I wanted to make something for her new apartment, so I made this.



The letters are multi-colored metallic thead and there's some silver in there, it's a lot more sparklytastic in person

I'm not going to post the chart for it because it's not mine to post; I just imported some icons (http://www.members.shaw.ca/korinchan/adoptee/beatles.html) into PCStitch and changed them a little. I did the logo in photoshop straight from the album cover, then imported it to PCStitch.

last year i wanted to be david bowie. badly. i didn't end up doing anything for halloween though, so i just tossed wednesday addams together for work, at 5am on halloween.

not the best, nothing handmade at all, but it worked

and remembering that i wanted to be david bowie...aah, i want to now...i was planning on putting together a mummy costume (i liked this one) but now i'm torn, 

[dhaunae]

die in a fire! now clean!


dhaunae, I initially made this for my boyfriend to hang on the wall in his office (he's a gamer too and is always telling people to die in a fire, haha) but I think he chickened out ohh well

I worked all afternoon on little 'marble' color Fimo skulls.
after two tries closely monitoring the toaster oven at 200 (not closely enough ) my boyfriend suggested using the regular/gas oven. so we preheated it for a good 20 minutes (I don't think you even need to preheat a gas oven but I do think it evened the temperature out) to 265, and I left them in the oven for eight minutes. they are less than a quarter inch thick and very tiny.
I don't have an oven thermometer but I'm considering one if I ever need to use clay again. sheesh.

now to figure out what to do with all these haphazardly mauve skulls!!