Crafters- What are you making???

[mrsengeseth]

I used gold leaf, instead of buffing it to a smooth finish I left it kind of ragged looking. I thought it added a little texture that way.

And I added some rhinestones down it too.

 

[2dream]

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I just happen to have some gold foil on hand that I think will work great.

Thank you all for such wonderful ideas.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

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Don't you believe in magic scrambled?

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LOL!!!!!! I think that moves more into the "miracle" category!!!!! lol!!!!

That egg ornament is stunning!!!! Gorgeous!!!

 

[Scrambled Egg]

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Sorry I threw away that one with the chicken that had the dreadlocks on the cover, you could have really used that one!!! Are yo using cigar boxes or the paper school boxes about the same shape? Great idea..one year in girl scouts we used the cigar boxes and hot glued seashells and beads all over the top and lined the insides with felt. There were used as jewelry boxes, my daughter took hers off to her college apartment with her..still a keepsake after all these years! You can buy beveled edged mirrors at michaels, or even the dollar tree has some and glue that on the inside lid if you are making the jewelry boxes..very nice.

The spider directions are pretty easy ya'll, you cn make them without a kit, big bead and smaller bead for the body with little ones at the front and back for head and tail end points and to be able to tie off the beads and keep them from slipping off. The legs are those cylinder or tube beads shoved in the wire and twisted between the head and body bead of the spider. Marymaxim does still carry A kit, not THE kits I used, the beads look cheaper to me now but if you have a box of beads, like all folks that crochet, people that work with beads ALWAYS have a stash of those too!!..use what you have, paste the poem on cardstock, rub it a bit with some a paper towel soaked in the juice of a tea bag for an old look, tie it to your spider and put it in a box for christmas..nice gift! If my pictures were clearer, youcould see the wolfpaw on the top of the white bead and under the bottom I wrote NCSU Wolfpack..you could do the college thmes if you want...I had to use a fine pointed permanent sharpie for that as the bead is about 3/4" diameter, probably Guitarists (Angie) is talented enough to paint in a space that small...I wasn't, lol!!!

Haven't used my new soap molds yet, probably wait till closer to Christmas for that, although I think I will make some logs/loaves of soap and wrap them in saran wrap and just not cut them till Christmas. I'll have that out of the way anyhow. Right now I'm on my 6th crocheted washcloth..have a bunch of those to get done!!

 

[okiemommy]

mrsengeseth it's beautiful!! Your directions were perfectly clear to me! Now I may have to re-read them several times when actually doing the loops and beading, but I think that's me and not your instructions

LOL scrambled! What are you afraid of woman? Just get some eggs tomorrow morning that you are going to eat anyway, and make a hole with a pin head on one end, by turning the pin like you would a screwdriver, and then when you've poked through all the way, do the same on the other end, then take the pin and gently "chisel" out a little more of the shell to make a bigger hole. Then slowly blow the egg out of the shell with your mouth on the end with the small hole.

The worst it can do is break And you're already eating them for brefast

 

[2manyhats]

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You make that sound really easy. I may just have to try it.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

ROTFLMBO!!!!! Too funny Okie!!! Nope gourd eggs for me, I'll save my chicken eggs for Hats to try!!! lol!!!!

 

[okiemommy]

You make that sound really easy. I may just have to try it.

YAY!!!!!

It is really easy!!

I was scared to try it at first, but I haven't broken an egg yet.


Oh Scrambled!!!

 

[2manyhats]

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YAY!!!!!

It is really easy!!

I was scared to try it at first, but I haven't broken an egg yet.


Oh Scrambled!!!

With what do you rinse the egg shell to keep it from getting stinky? I may just have to add egg ornaments to my handmade/homemade Christmas gift baskets.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

With what do you rinse the egg shell to keep it from getting stinky? I may just have to add egg ornaments to my handmade/homemade Christmas gift baskets.

and pictures will be required!!! lol!!

....and I would love to see the practive pics too ...you know, the ones with the ends blown off?!!!! Just kidding, you probably aren't as much of a wind bag as me so you and Okie will have a nice little stream of egg yak going out a teeny holein the end..me, I would either pass out from trying to blow it easy through that teeny hole or make Picasso happy with the abstract open-ended egg I would end up with!!

See, that's why I don't knit, I am much less dangerous with just the one crochet hook!!! Two, long, pointy needles...whoa.....look out!!!