Craftgrrl - Where Crafters Unite!

My recent Red Dwarf-watching binge got me wishing I had a goldfish or two. Thing is, I'm terrible at keeping fish.

So this was the best I could do.



Meet Nesmith. He isn't quite what he seems.


( Follow the fake cut for more pics... )

I decided to take the NaCraMaMo challenges, and it's been really good for my craft productivity.

One of the last times I saw july17_hm post about beaded wire fish, I decided I had to do something like that. I looked at the tutorial (thanks july17_hm for doing that!) and it looked like something I could do. I'm not really into fish though.

I got some mixed clear rainbow and brown rainbow seed beads in a giveaway that I just knew I needed to make a cross from. The first method I tried didn't work, so I decided to see if the july17_hm method would work for this. It did, sort of. It ended up being much more free-form because I used many different shapes for the bigger beads.

The results:



( One more under the cut )
I learned a few things:

- I need either a stiffer base wire, or I need to harden the wire before adding the beads to it. The base wire was too flexible.

- I need to use a smaller gauge wire to add the beads. I used 24 gauge, as it was what I had around, but I really needed to use something smaller.

Kinda plain on the outside...
( But inside... )

I recently started dabbling in making chainmail. ( Here are a few photos(it's a little picture heavy) )

This great interior design fabric store near me is having an excellent sale...50% off all cut fabric and also off their already half price remnants. 

( So, I made another new little bag...  )

thanks to the lovely gal that gave me the cute sun dress pattern online! i love it! i made 2 dresses for my BFF's daughter and for my 'baby sister's" soon to be daughter due in march 09. so decided to post the pictures of them and something i made for myself.

so onward to the pictures:
( behind the cut )

Handspun cord from hand dyed silk "hankies". Glass beads.

Edit: My camera batteries died last night before I could get any good detail shots. So, I'm adding some nice close ups I got this morning.

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Hello crafty ladies.

A while back somewhere on the great www I saw a tutorial showing how to turn vinyl record album *covers* into gift boxes. I thought I had bookmarked it. But alas, I've searched and searched and I can't find it. Anyone have an idea of what I'm talking about?

Thanks so much for any help you can offer!

**EDIT**
it was the album covers that they used not the actual vinyl record. sorry i didn't make that clear the first time.

Does anyone recommend a custom sticker printing company? I want some nice stickers, but they don't really have to last that long. Doesn't have to be the vinyl bumper sticker kind, the address label kind is all I'd need. The sites I've found also don't seem to make them as small as I'd want. I'm looking for something about half the size of and address label, maybe an inch by half an inch.

Help!

( Crafty Bits )

Includes:
My first Artist Trading Card
The Tentacle Necklace (yes, it needed caps)
Three mini-shrines

So I started this little granny square afghan with a ball of leftover yarn (the variegated purple/green) and now... I'm stuck on what I should do. This is the point it's at right now, and I don't know if I should continue to add onto it or not, for a few reasons. One, the simple purple border is nice, and clean. Adding more layers... I don't know, will it make it look too bulky and weird? Also, I'm worried that it's going to start to ruffle, because of the added group of stitching between the squares where they're sewn together. Maybe I shouldn't have done that, but I didn't stop to think, and just put one there. Now, maybe I could use a hook one size smaller (either from here on out or in alternating rows) and that would prevent it, but I don't know.

The only reason I don't want to just stop now is that it's kinda small and useless. That, and I bought a bunch of green and purple to do the border, but I can always use that on something else, so it's not that big a deal. Mostly it's the small size. It'd be a great baby blanket, I guess, but I don't exactly know anyone having a baby right now (sure, I could just hang on to it, I suppose). I just... don't know what I should do with it! Opinions, comments, ideas?

Sorry about the color, this picture doesn't do it justice. The crisp white and deep purple are gorgeous together! I have a few other pics ( under the cut )

31 x 31 cm
copper wire, beads, shell, mother-of-pearl
home decor

Im looking for a knitting pattern for a sweater for a 5 year old boy . Hes a big kid around an 8 size and tall for his age soo I guess Im looking for something around that size.
 BUT......It has to be cool. Scary monsters ,dragons ,vampires,pirates,skulls,punk rock . Something that makes him go AWESOME and then wear it.(even if one arm is longer than the other)

   I suck big time at making patterns that are regular size for small people fyi
I have no problem buying anything especially a pattern book,in fact Id rather since hell probably be in college by the time Im done.

THANKS SO MUCH !

*and if this isnt where I should post this let me know

been looking online with failure.
looking for size 3-4T thanks in advance.

this one is for the kids....

Each and every year I have the kids photos made at Sears.... I am behind this year a bit
here is a sneak preview.

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Photobucket's bulk uploader feature says it allows you to upload 250 pictures at one time, and I've been using the upload feature, but here's the odd thing, I know there's 249 pictures in each folder I am uploading, I counted it to bet hat way, but whenI select select all in bulk uploader, only 244 are uploading.

Then when all are uploaded it says I only have 67 files in a folder, what's up with that if, I uploaded 244, shouldn't there be 244 files in that folder?