What type of craft/making do you like?

Hi all,

I was inspired by a thread yesterday about knitting, to start a craft or making thread to see what people on here like to craft or make. I like to bead/make jewellery, the type I make is sewn out of seed beads, into a variety of patterns. Included are some photos of my latest piece, a necklace which took 12 hours! Please feel free to share your craft/hobby and a picture of your latest/favourite make if you wish.

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  • i like making things and i am an avid collector of tools i like doing paracord weaving and i make edison lamps im currently decorating a printers tray with knic knacs and some art pieces that are based on tress pics attached

  • that sounds interesting. What is an Edison lamp? 

  • the old fashioned edison bulbs they look really different so much better than leds i make them from scratch

  • Your coin collection sounds amazing! I wish I still had my coin collection :-(

  • oh no, shame you didn't keep them

  • i like to think it was a pirates treasure trunk lol

  • and expensive lol if only i had kept all my corgi and dinky toys

  • That sounds like a really innovative and fun project :-)

  • I know, I'm still mourning their loss

  • I love it! It's just so old and interesting. I bet if it could talk it would have a few stories to tell! 

  • would love to have some gold sovereigns lol

  • The only time I was ever asked 'anything to declare' at Customs was when I took my old coin collection with me because I had decided not to return to the UK. Nothing special in the main, a few Victorian coins, other coins pre-decimalisation, some post it a really: these might well seem like relatíve old coins to kids I teach now.........

    I did have an Edwardian gold sovereign, a warn George III sixpence dated 1816, the year without a summer, and another Georgian shilling in mint condition for 1781, but which are very common. 

    Actually I often keep modern coins to show kids, passing on the wisdom received by my own good self that the fifty p was an equilateral curved hectagon, the new pound being a dodecagon. 

    And no I didn't declare them. 

  • im currently in the process of collecting some 1:76 scale dinky vehicles to make a shadow box of old style cars trucks and buses that i have driven through my lifetime

  • shame about your coins

  • ebay again from a seller called bramblecam cost me £250 but i love it

  • I can imagine the light they emit would be quite soft. I’m the opposite with light, but then my vision isn’t the greatest so I need it to be really light so that I can actually see properly 

  • Aw I like historical artifacts of sorts. I did have a collection of old English coins but lost them when I moved house 10 years ago Slight frown Where did you get the big trunk from?

  • yeah i prefer the light they emit it's not as harsh as led though i only put them on when people call as i prefer the dark too much light hurts

  • it is yeah i bought it off ebay and bought travel stickers to decorate it like it had been to many different countries i also have a really big trunk that's about 180 yrs old

  • Do you use the Edison lamps to light your house?

  • looks interesting and is that an old style suitcase that I see underneath it? I have one of those in my loft that used to belong to my Grandma (the suitcase)

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  • looks interesting and is that an old style suitcase that I see underneath it? I have one of those in my loft that used to belong to my Grandma (the suitcase)

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  • Your coin collection sounds amazing! I wish I still had my coin collection :-(

  • oh no, shame you didn't keep them

  • i like to think it was a pirates treasure trunk lol

  • and expensive lol if only i had kept all my corgi and dinky toys

  • That sounds like a really innovative and fun project :-)

  • I know, I'm still mourning their loss

  • I love it! It's just so old and interesting. I bet if it could talk it would have a few stories to tell! 

  • would love to have some gold sovereigns lol

  • The only time I was ever asked 'anything to declare' at Customs was when I took my old coin collection with me because I had decided not to return to the UK. Nothing special in the main, a few Victorian coins, other coins pre-decimalisation, some post it a really: these might well seem like relatíve old coins to kids I teach now.........

    I did have an Edwardian gold sovereign, a warn George III sixpence dated 1816, the year without a summer, and another Georgian shilling in mint condition for 1781, but which are very common. 

    Actually I often keep modern coins to show kids, passing on the wisdom received by my own good self that the fifty p was an equilateral curved hectagon, the new pound being a dodecagon. 

    And no I didn't declare them. 

  • im currently in the process of collecting some 1:76 scale dinky vehicles to make a shadow box of old style cars trucks and buses that i have driven through my lifetime

  • shame about your coins

  • ebay again from a seller called bramblecam cost me £250 but i love it

  • Aw I like historical artifacts of sorts. I did have a collection of old English coins but lost them when I moved house 10 years ago Slight frown Where did you get the big trunk from?

  • it is yeah i bought it off ebay and bought travel stickers to decorate it like it had been to many different countries i also have a really big trunk that's about 180 yrs old