Published on 12, July, 2020
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.
Not yet, getting it ready for next Christmas... but I do do a bit of a fairy garden in the summer so I'll show you that when the weather permits
I'd love to see a photo of your miniature village, it sounds intriguing! Sorry to hear that work is not so good at the moment, what is happening?
that sounds really interesting
that's what I thought
I thought they were probably supposed to be trees but I thought it best to ask rather than just assuming. You've made a lot of drawings and keyrings, do you sell them at all?
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!
Ive recently discovered 'lemax', they make figures and houses for minature Christmas villages, I was bought one for christmas and am now obsessed, I'm starting to make my own village with trees hedges and background all of which I am making myself, since Christmas I've made several trees out of twisted wire and paint and a hedge from cut up hanging basket liners, I find it distracts me from all the s#@t that is happening at work at the moment.
yeah every year they have a steampunk event at haworth in yorkshire lots of people dress up in steampunk costumes and have steampunk themed events its interesting (i don't dress up but i like to look )
Definitely steampunk!
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http://www.picresize.com/
i see stuff online and think hmmm i could make that for a fraction of the price figure out what i need make them and then move on to the next project
yeah i like the steampunk stuff ... i made these out of half inch bsp steel pipe
They have quite a Victorian look about them
would love to have some gold sovereigns lol
yeah i like it a friend who has a shop has been pestering me to make more that he could sell in his shop but that would take the fun out of making them
Wow!
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