It's been a while but been craft blogging @ LOVECRAFTYGURL...

some pics of my craftiness...
oranges
charms
pins
plants
Halloween cakes
kitty
chocolates
cakies
mushrooms [Mario style, you know the game, heee...]
basket [made out of juice top]

On another note... been freaken' sick once again... 7 days exactly today! My ear is all stuffed up... I cannot stand it... Hate being sick...

Spend yesterday talking to my mom about my turkey recipe... Just spoke to to her and she's started cooking already... :) I wish I was there... YUM!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

cutter and blades information on glass attic.

glass attic - an encyclopedia of Polymer clay!

the umbrella shop in canada the only one left. You wake up at sea tac!

As I sit here I hear something outside of the balcony and voila I see a person cleaning the outside of the rails in the balcony. I wonder if they're going to change it. we weren't told about this. He too up a ladder and came up the balcony that way as there is no other way to do it beside knocking on the door. I wonder what he's doing out there. It smells like shoe polish, wonder if that is toxic... Hope the kitties aren't smelling this, or else they will be high!

Nintendo Wii Fit women and the $41m damage bill - video. Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes. Apple's open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web. Cormier and Holmes at hoco@island.net. At the Synergy conference Dan Cormier and Tracy Holmes unveiled a practical new tool for polymer clay artists that is bound to be the next must-have supply on your tool list. The Sh.A.R.K consists of a magnetic adjuster and a magnetic ruler designed to fit onto an Atlas 150 Pasta machine - Cormier says to “think of it as a moving wall”. This tool makes your pasta machine adjustable and allows you to sheet clay in any width within the rollers. Sh.A.R.K = Sheet (SH) Adjuster (A) Ruler (R) Kit (K)

Barnaby Barford wasn’t thinking about polymer clay when he created these bone china coffee cups. He designed the stamp cups in an effort to create a more pleasing pattern than the always-annoying coffee stain ring that cups and mugs leave on furniture. If you can’t fight ‘em, join ‘em, right? Clever, clever, clever! You can buy the cups here. A bit pricey, yes, but do you see the polymer clay possibilities? Still chuckling? More from this designer here.

Stamp Cups
Designed with Valeria Miglioli for Thorsten Van Elten.
Those irritating ring marks that mugs and cups leave..... well, you can turn them into a nice floral pattern now with a set of Stamp Cups. The pattern on the base of the cup match up so you can join as many marks as you want. Set of 2 Cups Earthenware

Stamp Mugs Designer: Valeria Miglioli & Barnaby Barford
Price: $59.00 Shipping: Ground Shipping to US & CAN is included*.

Studio™ by Sculpey® is opening the door to a new world of creating with oven-bake clay. Specially formulated to capture and build upon the best qualities of today’s oven-bake clays, Studio is easy to condition by hand and extremely durable after baking. It is the only oven bake clay that will hold its shape perfectly during modeling and will not break or crack when baking large pieces. It is available in 34 rich, home décor colors and bakes to a luxurious, suede-like finish.

April month was the introduction to polymer clay! I wanted to a long while to do some crafts with this... Have done already 7 batches of dingbats and all sorts of cuties... Even made a few charms for my kitties. I want to try some more fun stuff but its really hard to do some of the stuff... Specially when the clay gets too warm... need to leave to rest and cool... I usually put it in the freezer for a few minutes and then take it out.

Learn that from reading blogs and info on polymer clay... I have spend hours and hours on sites about it... Found a site where I found someone had made frosting (was going to buy PermaIce) for her donuts and asked how she made the frosting... She was nice enough to send me the info via email... I was so glad... She has a site `tooaquarius` and also found her flickr site!! She makes really nice beads and wonderful canes...

I can`t make canes to save my life... I think I would need to do many tutorials... I tried the other night but my cane came out awful!!! I don`t think I have the technique down yet!! I love to make the cakes, got a tutorial from youtube from ebola909. There are not many tutorials on youtube on how to make things but found some really informative sites:
craft gossip
thing-a-day
how to miniature
polymer clay central
glass attic


Did some origami from tutorials from youtube... kinda fun... found other dingbats to do and made already about 7 batches... Currently, sick and not really up to doing some tutorials... Even though I want to do them and will eventually... Still wondering how you do those pillow beads???

Being sick is not a wonderful thing.... BFG brought it into the house from the hospital! He lost his voice and sounded really weird!! Now he looks find and I'm still sick with a runny nose!!! So much yukkiness...
I haven't even seen my k-dramas... I get tired and nauseas still, so I need to lie down for a while and take it easy... Been sleeping somewhat as the nose is freaken blocked at night and prevents me from breathing... Been taking the sinus Tylenol pills and they somewhat help and use the Vick's to breath!!! Having 2 maladies at the same time is not fun!! AAAh, I want it to be over and done. Getting back to my usual self is not happening... Soon...

Yesterday, spend a few hours on flickr looking and adding peeps onto as contacts... I looked and saw some wonderful and interesting pictures... I really liked many of the creations people have made. Got some ideas... VerdeBlue gave me inspiration for ladybugs, turtle, carrots, oranges and lollipops! I thank her... my phone charms also gave me some inspirations, like my takoyaki with an octopus on top of it, the totoro crowd... gave up on the cat and mushroom... made some spaghetti from the inspiration we had last week! I love how my plates came out!!

Have found out that sculpey III is not a good material to use... Too brittle, I need to practice with it and then will buy the good stuff: prèmo, kato or regular fimo, not the soft fimo!!

Spend the whole day updating/upgrading BFG XP-PC! What a hassle lasted about 7hrs,,, Even though all the updates were done... Still problems exist... i think I need to wipe it and start from a fresh slate!

need to get some materials still:
FIMO [brown, black, red, baby blue, royal blue, beige, orange and other pretty colors]
acrylic rolling pin
shaping tools [double sided]
cutter
pasta roller
acrylic varnish
sculpey glaze [glossy or satin]

already have:
pin/needle
exact-o knife
FIMO [yellow, green, pink, white]
parchment paper/pan
starch/baby powder
ruler

tutorial on how to make a miniature cake with polymer clay. Need to get me some FIMO decorating gel/liquid.... pembelim. Wanna make these pretty butterflies [video]. Mold Making for Precious Metal Clay [video]. utube users: Abalorios n CandyFimoWebTR. Still need to do my duvets [tutorial] & flanged pillow shams [tutorial]. Abbreviation used in both knitting and crochet sites.

crochet v-stitch pattern [video] by tjw1963 and her blog. Hers:
Formula/Multiple for the pattern is 3+1.
DC in 4th Chain from hook, Ch 3, DC in same chain.
Skip 2 CH, DC, CH 3, DC. Repeat to the end.
Ch 3 to start the next row, DC, Ch 3, DC in Center
of next Stitch, Repeat across;
DC in last stitch of the row below.

tutorial for Crochet Abbreviations & Symbols - site a list of sites.

Videos:
crochet w/ beads
double crochet
crochet a circle
crochet a flower
Crochet Afghan Tunisian Stitch 1 & 2

makes ruffles [video] I wonder what the sewing machines are? Happy to learn to crochet... Even though it's in Portuguese! She [Elaine 33yrs old] is amazing has over 12yrs of experience in crochet! I need to look into all her videos she has done over 300.... NYA!!! She was even interviewed! crochet bag [info in Portuguese].

Anime = Minamike a blog post and on utube a video. Looking at the latest camcorders at cnet.com! Reading the latest j-gossip! Articles been reading for the past few hours. List of Japanese television dramas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Articles that I read through out the day at a Russian site. Russia has no law to ban sex in public - Mummified woman found in her flat 13 years later - People marry animals - Nude blonde visits petrol station - best divorce letter - Biomimetic materials...