Crafters to me! Other hobbyists welcome. - Page 2

LadyShea · #26 06-24-2009, 08:15 PM

Those are lovely beads. You did a good job keeping the size and shape uniform!

lisarea · #27 06-24-2009, 08:29 PM

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Oh I know. I have a cabinet full of plastic coffee containers with lids, like that Folgers and Maxwell House come in. I use one a month for a slops bucket, but haven't figured out what to do with the rest of them.

Also, can I mebbe get a wallet to give to hubby for his birthday?

Sure. Which kind you think?

I'm going to go mess around with plastic fusing in a minute.

LadyShea · #28 06-24-2009, 08:52 PM

I don't care...it needs to be really simple and thin though, like a bifold. Anything you make will be really cool I am sure. I'll pay for the duct tape or whatever

I am broke and none of my crafts are good hubby gifts. He'll dig a lisarea wallet though. I see him eyeballing my Secret Santa hoard sometimes.

LadyShea · #29 06-24-2009, 09:07 PM

I am totally going to make the iron palm tree into a coat/bag tree for Kiddo. He's too short to hang his own shit up, and I have all these cool Amish wrought iron S hooks in a drawer. I just had the idea. Maybe I'll do it this weekend.

freemonkey · #30 06-24-2009, 11:09 PM

that is really cool, godfry. Nice work.

Have you ever tried making marbles?

ChuckF · #31 06-24-2009, 11:50 PM

I have a cool little school-room book cart from the 30s or 40s that I need to stain or paint. It's the kind that has one shelf with tilted sides. I stripped the old lacquer finish off because it was in really bad shape and knocked off the ridiculous wheels. I may add some more tasteful rollers, or just some pads. It is cheaply made and the old wood will need a little rehab but I have $0 in it so far. I'm hoping I can find a little can paint or stain on the returned paint shelf at Lowe's.

I don't have a pic of it but it looks basically like this one, except with no finish and only the top shelf:

What do you guys think? Paint or stain?

godfry n. glad · #32 06-24-2009, 11:52 PM

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that is really cool, godfry. Nice work.

Have you ever tried making marbles?

I tried...but it's a little trickier, even with a marble mould.

LadyShea · #33 06-25-2009, 12:35 AM

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What do you guys think? Paint or stain?

Depends on the decor of your house. If you paint, use primer. Too many people skip this step :proactiveglare:

Have you tried the water based stains? I like working with them because they dry quick and no fumes.

freemonkey · #34 06-25-2009, 01:04 AM

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What do you guys think? Paint or stain?

If the grain of the wood is interesting, why not try a brightly colored stain?

lisarea · #35 06-25-2009, 01:06 AM

OK. I made two wallets. One for me and one for Mister Shea. I think if we have matching wallets, that means we'd be going steady, so it's OK if you and Maturin get, like, matching socks now or whatever.

I fused the plastic, then lined the main wallet part with metal tape (to block RFID!), then attached the fused plastic cardholders and stuck the wallets together with thin black duct tape.

They are pretty ugly, and the pictures are terrible, but TOO BAD. I never asked to be born, anyway!

wallets1.jpg
wallets2.jpg

ETA: I am trying to fix that other attachment, but I DON'T HAVE PERMISSION TO. It's too dark and I wanted to fix it. But I remembered to take a picture of it when I was transferring my stuff to the new wallet. That is my picture on my Costco card that is SO TERRIBLE that they keep offering to retake it, and I'm all like, "FUCK YOU. IT'S MINE." It's even more terrible than it looks in that. It's the worst picture of anyone ever. it is awesome.

Stephen Maturin · #36 06-25-2009, 01:48 AM

It's just as well. The Costco card photo is so aggressively ghastly that posting a clearer version would constitute Aggravated Vehicular Criminal Battery with Specific Intent to Cause Death, Permanent Impairment of Body Function, Permanent Serious Disfigurement, Amputation and Severe Emotional Distress.

lisarea · #37 06-25-2009, 01:51 AM

OMG WHAT ARE YOU DOING READING THIS THREAD?

I AM SO BUSTED NOW.

ChuckF · #38 06-25-2009, 04:56 AM

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What do you guys think? Paint or stain?

Depends on the decor of your house. If you paint, use primer. Too many people skip this step :proactiveglare:

Have you tried the water based stains? I like working with them because they dry quick and no fumes.

Hey, no need to :proactiveglare: at me. I'm a pro, I prime. I will def. be using water-based if I stain, just because cleanup is so much easier.

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What do you guys think? Paint or stain?

If the grain of the wood is interesting, why not try a brightly colored stain?

The grain isn't particularly interesting - it may look better once I sand it with some finer paper - but I like the idea of a colored stain. :chin:

The only bad thing about stain is that I can't take it off. If I paint and don't like it, I can just strip it down and start over.

I will post some pikchers this weekend.

LadyShea · #39 06-25-2009, 05:03 AM

Why not give one wallet to my man-ho, and one to your man-ho, then THEY can be going steady, and make yourself a non ugly one?

I am a problem solver.

Anyway, I think they're cool. How was the plastic fusing? Yours looks all nice, mine had big holes in it, then I had to patch them, then I tried to like weave strips of plastic and it looked like a mutated mess that said "WalMart"

Adam · #40 06-25-2009, 05:09 AM

Those wallets are awesome. When mine finally disintegrates, I'm totally taking the magnet out of it and wrapping it in duct tape and shit to make a new one.

ChuckF · #41 06-25-2009, 05:43 AM

Yeah those wallets are p. great and I would totally steal one.

I haven't bumped my bookbinding thread recently but I am still at it and right now I am working on a 1925 first edition of a book Alexandra Kollontai (my second favorite Bolshevik after Caligulette) called Wege Der Liebe that I got for 25 cents. Something went wrong that is not my fault so I made a rage guy about it. I think it is the internet's first bookbinding rage guy, right here on :ff:

. If you can't figure out the problem then you're an idiot.

Qingdai · #42 06-25-2009, 07:34 AM

Is internet rage guy a craft?

I've got a secret project a-knitting. Plus I'm kind of at the fussy hard part now and am pretty lazy.

godfry n. glad · #43 06-25-2009, 08:01 AM

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... and it looked like a mutated mess that said "WalMart"

Wow.

Harsh.

biochemgirl · #44 06-25-2009, 11:47 AM

I have a tendency to work on too many things at once. Right now I'm sewing some baby clothes and things for the nursery. Before that I was quilting and doing some knitting though.

LadyShea · #45 06-25-2009, 01:34 PM

Nursery and baby stuff is awesome. I want pictures.

Oh and when people tell you that you need 1.3 billion receiving blankets, tell them to FOAD. I am still trying to get rid of them, nobody wants them because they also have mountains of them. They cannot be repurposed either, as they don't work as towels or cleaning rags or anything. It's some kind of conspiracy.