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A blog covering a variety of crafts including: bag-making, sewing,knitting, quilting, patchwork, brooches, and embroidery.
http://sewchristine.blogspot.com/
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Crafty Tip
Eucalyptus oil will remove most 'foreign' substances from the bottom of your iron.
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Handcrafted hand embroidered pillowcases, dresser scarves, dish towels tea towels, decorative bed pillows. Take a walk down memory lane.
http://www.grannyscrafts1912.ecrater.com
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Crafty Tip
When you have vintage patterns, and you don't want to cut them up. Copy them and use a transfer pencil.
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Creative Project Kits Store, offering craft kits across a variety of craft categories, including easy quilt kits, embroidery kits, ready to sew kits, knit & crochet kits, jewelry making kits, scrapbook & card kits, kid's craft kits, punch needle kits, and more. Quality products and excellent customer service.
http://www.weekendkits.com
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Crafty Tip
I've organized my sewing/quilting area in such a way that it makes doing crafts very enjoyable. The tip is to have your sewing machine, cutting table/work surface, and serger layout in a u-shape. Then, have a large chair mat in the center of it all so that you can roll your chair from sewing machine to work surface to serger without have to even get out of your chair. It's really made crafting a lot more convenient, accessible, and fun for me.
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Good Jewelry for Bad Girls. I've been known to use a little bit of everything, from semiprecious stone beads and pendants to tiny plastic hot dogs. My style icons are much more likely to include drag queens, burlesque performers, and black and white movie darlings than anyone with the surname Hilton.
http://www.beqiclothing.com
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Crafty Tip
1.Trader Joe's reusable grocery bags fit the average bead tray perfectly for portable use.
2.Never be afraid to dissemble a project you're not happy with and start over--that's the nice thing about beads, they aren't perishable.
3.Rings n' Things and Sky Blue Pink are two good wholesale jewelry findings websites if you have a vendor ID number.
4.Customers like to know what kind of stones their jewelry is made out of, so be sure to ask bead shop owners what the names are if they aren't marked.
5.If you like plastic charms, Sand Scripts is a good place to get a lot for relatively cheap.
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Our handcrafted jewelry is personally designed using quality materials including gemstones, Swarovski crystal, cultured freshwater pearls, glass, Bali silver, wood and other natural materials. You can special order necklace lengths, clip on earrings, or different colors.
The large Learn About Beads section includes helpful information for the shopper or the crafter.
Fashion tips offers suggestions for choosing and wearing jewelry.
Recent posts is a page of my blogging entries.
http://www.handmadebeadedjewelry.org/
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Crafty Tip
For a beginner making a beaded jewelry necklace. If you are using large beads, especially square or rectangle shapes, be sure to put smaller round or spacer beads between them. It allows your necklace to curve and hang properly. Always hold your strung necklace as you would wear it before finishing the ends.
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Watercolor art by Judy Huang of landscapes, florals, pets, still life, houses, and portraits. I do commissioned works of portraits, houses, and pets in watercolors or in colored pencil drawings. Learn more about my art through a watercolor lesson and tutorial on my site. Original watercolor art is sold with a frame or without.
Editor's Note: Rather than shrink an entire piece down to a size that fits on Crafty Tips, I have included a small section of a larger work so that this artist's fine work can be truly appreciated.
http://www.judypaint.com
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Crafty Tip
Keep a piece of paper towel or cloth handy. When there is too much water of the paint on the paper, use the paper towel to soak the excess off
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Handmade rings made by a Korean-American New Yorker attending college in Boston. My goods are all unique--no two look the same! Influenced by my love for the big and dramatic things, these rings will surely catch more than a few eyes and make a statement.
http://baneul.etsy.com
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Crafty Tip
Get technological! Make a spreadsheet to help keep tabs on all of your supplies and prices.
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I sell elegant items to everyday items. Adding a lot of new content soon!
Mention this site & take 15% off your order at http://www.UniqueCharm.net
Promo Code: Crafty
http://www.uniquecharm.net
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Crafty Tip
When crafting, don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone and make something truly different.
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Handcrafted beaded jewelry made with a touch of natural components such as rock, semi-precious gemstones, shell, and wood. Many pieces in my shop are blended with different types of unique beads and my own handcrafted polymer beads. NaturalAmber also specializes in custom made earring greeting cards that can be customized with original poetry or a custom phrase from the buyer. There truly is something for everyone here.
http://naturalamber.etsy.com
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Crafty Tip
Have you considered making beads out of polymer clay and want to make unique pendants for your bead collection but can not afford the costs to buy all the equipment necessary? Starting any new hobby can often times be expensive but good news for lovers of polymer beads, there are ways around buying expensive polymer ovens and expensive shape design equipment. Polymer clay ovens are just a huge oven made on a smaller scale. It is more of a practical solution for someone who doesn't want to use their kitchen oven for baking beads! If you choose to use your own oven I would highly suggest getting a cooking tray made solely for baking and making polymer beads. (If you put a piece of aluminum foil underneath your beads when cooking it will not harm them!) Also, don't worry about buying expensive pendant molders, I like to use cookie cutters and jello cutters. They work just find to make unique pendants that are big, bold, and absolutely beautiful!
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SKS is a supplier, consultant and designer of plastic bottles, glass bottles, plastic jars, glass jars, metal containers and closures for your craft and packaging needs.
http://www.sks-bottle.com
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Crafty Tip
Use affordable packaging to create handmade memorable wedding favors that are much more personal than store-bought favors.
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