Are you crafty? What do you like to make? Have pics?

[GreenPartyVoter]

[China_cat]

1. Socks

A lot of baby socks, but I also do gloves, mittens, hats, and adult sizes.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Oh... so sweet :^D

[Lilyhoney]

34. Seeing your little booties are stimulating my urge to have a baby.

I must look away, but they sure are cute. :applause:

[China_cat]

35. ooooo...don't do that

I make them in adult sizes, too.

[Lilyhoney]

36. Size 9 please.

I like cotton just fine.:hi:

[China_cat]

37. Color? Or can I choose?

[Lilyhoney]

47. I am a cool fall colour person.

Thanks. :applause: My mother in law makes me stuff and it makes me feel like part of the family. But it took her a while to learn what my colour is. The hot, hot, pink was soooo not me.

[FuzzySlippers]

2. I do some needlework.

I particularly like counted cross stitch 'cuz your mind goes into this gray zone where all you're thinking about is making those Xs. Very relaxing.

Edit: spelling

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. My mom used to do needlework. When I was really little she made a

beautiful embroidered butterfly on the back of a jean jacket for me.

[LisaM]

4. One Christmas I folded all my old XMas cards into little boxes

and made them into a wreath. I tied a bow on it that I stiffened with starch I made myself.

It looked good for about a minute!

I still enjoy making wreaths, but they look much better now.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. :^) I am not a very crafty person. I lack the patience so whatever I

work on ends up looking like you know what. :P

I think that was an interesting idea for how to reuse old cards, though.

[bicentennial_baby]

5. I'm a knitta

all da time...i knit

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Even when you type on DU? *g* (I never could get the hang of knitting)

[bicentennial_baby]

14. yes, and while walking too

:)

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. That sounds a wee bit dangerous to me. Those needles are scary!

[Rising Phoenix]

45. can't wait till you teach me..

[caty]

6. No

I just don't have the patience or the talent. :-(

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. That's two of us, then. :)

[Ariana Celeste]

7. I enjoy beadwork and such. Here's the last bracelet

I made- and made a matching anklet, too, since I have a tattoo above my ankle to show off. :).




I don't have any of my own beads or wire or anything to work with anymore. I got to make these with my neighbors stuff. Someday when I've got some extra $$ I intend to start my hobby again.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Very cool. :^) My dad and bro go rockhounding for semi precious

stones. Mom had wanted to use them and make jewelry. Bro still might do it, though right now his passion is blowing glass.

[Ariana Celeste]

17. I used to go hunting for quartz and pyrite.

One time I found a stone with black garnets growing on it- was the coolest thing ever in my mind. :7

That little passion lasted just a few months though, lol. Seems I never stick with one thing for very long. Always been like that. Beadwork and hemp though, that's something I've always managed to crawl back to.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. I am lousy about sticking with my projects... hence my unfinished books

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. The Hedges of Life

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. I guess photo shopping can be crafty :^) But you gotta hotglue

beads around the frames on the pics you print out, ok?

[miss_kitty]

19. I do some bead and metal work. here are samples

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Gorgeous work! And the pics of them are nice too. :^)

[miss_kitty]

26. thanks

It's my HP scanner. I had no idea I could do that til I saw your OP! So thanks for that too!

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Cool :^)

[Lavender Brown]

23. Beautiful work

I love the red necklace. :thumbsup:

[miss_kitty]

28. Thank you for the compliment

The red beads are all antique, the small ones are white hearts and the polka dot ones are ghost beads. The cool orange and blue swirly ones I got in a Soho, London bead shop. All the metal in the jewelry is silver.

[Lavender Brown]

30. Is it hard to find antique beads

or hard to find enough matching ones to complete a piece?

[miss_kitty]

39. no. I purchased some of those from a place called

Garden of Beadin'. I got ten strands of the white hearts and a strand of the black ghost beads sight unseen, from them. The white hearts were $65 (for the hank-all ten 20" strands) and the black ghost beads (about a 24" strand) was $150, IIRC. That was in 1992-94. Single ghosts were $5-$10, depending on quality. Single strands of white hearts were $10ish, also depending on quality. The red ghosts I got in Seattle and I think the strand was also $150. The silver beads I bought in various places, either singly, or in bulk.

The multi coloured necklace is leftover beads, and stuff off the black ghost bead stard that weren't ghost beads.

I try to buy more than I will ever need. And it's worked. It's like yarn-buy enough for the project from the same dye lot before you start! :)

[Lavender Brown]

55. Oh my gosh... They're so expensive

Worth it, though, for something so unusual looking and pretty. I think I'd like to take a jewelry class, but I'm not very good at learning things that involve a lot of intricate work. My friends who knit get frustrated when trying to teach me how to do it! :P

[Lilyhoney]

33. Awesome!

I like the jewelry, but LOVE the face. :applause:

[miss_kitty]

40. I forged a series of those in winter 2001

I was diagnosed with cancer soon after and haven't been able to do more since, due to lack of strength, good health and money. :( But I'll get back to it some day, soon I hope :)

It's mild steel that I wire brushed when I was done forming it and sealed with furniture wax, then buffed.

[MissMillie]

21. I crochet

I made the blanket in this picture.

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Pretty. Very nice background for the kitties

[Lilyhoney]

38. I have 2 blankets my mom croched(sp?) for me over 20 years ago.

I love them more than I can say. One is yellow and one is pink and don't go with anything and my husband hates the texture of them. But they make me feel good. Thanks Mom.

[BiggJawn]

22. Odd-ball Bicycle projects...

Like THIS:


I'm trying my hand at stuff like saddlebags and what-not, and now that I have am overlock machine, I may try making my own spandex stuff....

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. You might wanna make a seat cushion too *g*

[Lilyhoney]

29. I am an artist. Here is one of my recent paintings.

I had watched the 1st season of Nip Tuck over the course of one weekend. I had the theme song in my head when I started this. Theme song just says "Make me beautiful" in a hypnotic kind of way.


This was just the beginning of the painting and changed by the time it was done. I can't access the pictures of them though.

I used oil pastel crayons on a board like surface. I was painting over something else I did'nt really like.

[Lilyhoney]

31. Babboon stem cell in reproduction.

This one hangs in a friends house. Oil on board like material. About 2&1/2feet X 3&1/2 feet This one is one of my favorite ones that I have done.

[Lilyhoney]

32. Duality

This one is very textured Oil on board like surface size is about 3ft X 4 ft

[chaska]

41. Wow, you're good.

I like your favorite best too.

[Lilyhoney]

48. This is my firs time posting them for the world to see.

Welcome to debut and I thank you.:applause:

[miss_kitty]

43. Your paintings are great!

I like to cover over old paintings I'm not so fond of too!:thumbsup:

[Lilyhoney]

49. Hopefully someday

when I am a famous dead artist, they will discover the covered paintings and make those few more valuable for the owners of them. That would be nice, would'nt it?

Also some of them are painted on both sides. Added value there? :rofl:

[miss_kitty]

50. yes. and if another painting shows up UNDERNEATH in X Rays

:woohoo:w00t!!!1!!1!!:woohoo: that would be HUGH!!!!!11!!!11!:rofl:

[chaska]

42. I wish I had a workshop now so I could continue to make these...

Sorry for the crappy pics.

[miss_kitty]

44. I have a friend who made his own Flying V bass

He wound his own pickup too. The bass looked great, but he should have bought the pickup.

It really is too bad you still don't have a shop. your work looks incredible.

[IChing]

46. I made this CD, DVD shelf , the faux wall coloring,

[CaliforniaPeggy]

51. You do beautiful work, IChing...

Have you thought about interior decoration/design as a career? You obviously have quite a lot of talent...

:applause: :applause:

[IChing]

52. Thanks for the compliment but

Interior/design as a career? That made me smile, you joke of course.

I've sold a few of these pieces to friends but that's about it. They cost me about $20 to make a piece in material, but the labor is done in my garage, when I feel good, makes me about $15/$20 an hour.

I really like the process of making something and don't have patience or skill for the selling
of my pieces.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

53. Well, my dear IChing, actually

I wasn't kidding...I've seen you talk about other things you've done here in the Lounge, but I can't remember them at all...I don't know what you actually do for a living (and that's just fine!). YOu strike me as a rather private person...But you obviously have a lot of artistic talent.

What a wonderful hobby!

:applause: :applause:

[XemaSab]

54. Drew the kittiwake in my banner

for the California Bird Records Committee.

:-)

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Ch2ATY-y0ckJ:www.wfo-cbrc.org/cbrc/cbrc_minutes/2005_meeting.doc++site:www.wfo-cbrc.org+%2BCBRC+%2Bkittiwake&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

The committee still hasn't decided on the bird.