All my guitars are too nice and too precious to practice doing a home made version of this on, but, my brother left an old shitty axe in the storage room. It's beat up and never held a tune anyway. I am so doing this to it. I want it to be a wall piece and a working board. Cool, isn't it? I have several wood burners with various tips I picked up somewhere. I have just started using them to make kitchen witch tools. I'm not that good with them yet, they are surprisingly difficult, but, with some more practice, I can't help but get better, right? Besides the witchy little craft projects are sort of cute. I'll take some pics.
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This is interesting and cool looking, but ouija boards kind of scare me, so I would not do it. It would be interesting on the wall, though.
There have been many times I have looked at wood burning kits at one of the craft stores here, and wondered if I should get one. I have never seen one at a garage sale here, but I really didn't go to many this year.
I am probably one of those over-crafty collectors of all sorts of craft implements that you mentioned in another post. When my mom was dying, I really started shopping in earnest, as it made me feel better to go to those stores and be surrounded by all those pretty things and think of all the stuff I could do. I still feel so creative when I go there.
I think I live in the nexxus of craft stores. I live probably a half mile from a JoAnn's craft and fabric store, and a couple of miles from the closest Michael's. A few miles further in either direction will get you more Michael's and JoAnn's stores of varying sizes. A couple miles away was Stampity-do-dah, a stamping/crafting store, and there are a couple of other craft/scrapbooking stores around that are independent. Fred Meyer, and Bi-Mart in my neighborhood both have crafting departments, and Wal-Mart does, too. Office Depot, Office Max, etc. tend to carry some scrapbooking supplies, as well. I also have gone to a number of scrapbooking conventions, and am debating on whether I should go to the one in Tacoma next month. Last spring I went to the one in Portland, and last November I went to the one in Bellevue, Washington. I love going and seeing all the new products, or the special deals you can get. I am a careful shopper, and almost never pay full price. I get lots of stuff on clearance, or clearance off of clearance, and use lots of 40% off and 50% off coupons. It has been very soothing for me. I actually went shopping today, after a session with my counselor and got some great deals. Everything I bought was at least 50% off.
I scrapbook, sew, crochet, have done a little knitting and want to teach myself more, have a very fancy sewing machine that I am totally intimidated by, which is still in the box (at least a year after purchase), have done some quilting and have a lot more planned, experimented with quilling, I have done Russian embroidery, regular embroidery, have done some jewelry work and beading, and have a few bits and pieces toward trying tatting. I also have been experimenting with polymer clay and making mixed media art canvases. I have done some card making, too. Sometimes just handling and looking at the beautiful papers (especially those patterned in 50's and early 60's designs) and handling beautiful cotton yardage, make my mood so much better.
Anyway, I guess this is the first step of my 12 step program for chronic crafters.
"Hi, my name is Christina, and I am a crafter. . ."
Christina
Do it. If it's old and unused, make something beautiful out of it. I'm with Christina though, ouija boards kind of scare me. But I know it's something you're comfortable with, so why not? Plus it would be good practice for a wood burning craft without the risk of screwing something precious up.
Christina, I have a basic sewing machine that I just figured out can do more stuff that I thought. I was looking the manual and was like, dang, why haven't I looked through this better? So just start small with that thing, I assume it does embroidery patterns (like ones you buy add-on designs) and fancy jazz like that?
Yes, and it also does quilting, though it is not one of the long arm ones.
Christina
How is your arm doing?
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