The "Craft" Bug Has Bitten Me Again!!!

I hate going to sleep at night...THAT'S when my mind decides it wants to go a million miles a minute with all kinds of ideas for crafting and projects and I can't get to sleep. So...today, I will attempt to make the crafts my mind has created. I will be creating another notebook, but this is more of a "see how it turns out" kind of thing. I will be using more of my "Velvet" with this book, and may either take pictures or video-document how I make it to place here for anyone who may want to make their own.

I am also going to see about doing some wire beading. For a while I had been trying to figure out how I could make shapes WITHOUT the use of a fancy-schmancy wire jig. I think I may have figured it out, but it's going to be a trial and error process. Again, I will post pictures here to show how it goes.

Fingers crossed I have some

success. Wish Me Luck!!!

~~**Ma'iingan**~~

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First Project

A VERY simple cover that just about ANYONE can do (so long as you know how to use scissors and a ruler). Simply measure out the length and width of your book, as well as it's thickness, add it all together, measure your material (adding about 0.5 cms on all sides for an overlap), cut and secure to book using split-pins.

Recommendation: I would use a thicker material like velvet, leather, vinyl or suede as it's heaver and looks nicer.

Now, my book uses pages from a spiral bound notebook, but you can do the exact same thing by using any sized paper. The only limitation you have is the thickness of your book. You can only make it as thick as your split-pins are long, and you have to remember enough room to split your split pins. Also depending on how thick your book is, you can trim your pins to accommodate your book if need be.

Incredibly easy. Once I get my vinyl (leather substitute) I will try again, and again I will post it here for those interested.

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This is not Pagan related, but IS crafting related. I've recently become interested in making jewellry...kind of goes along the same lines as my Pagan Prayer beads, but kind of escalated to earrings and other necklaces.

Here are a couple of examples:

 

Yes, they're all on clips, not standard pierced findings (only because I don't have pierced ears), but these can SO easily be put on pierced findings it's not even funny. I love making these. It's so fun. If I continue, I may have enough for an inventory, and I would LOVE to be able

to sell these and have my own site in which to sell these, however I'm rather uncomfortable dealing with money in such an anonymous way. I suppose once I can figure out how paypal works, and I get enough of these going, I would just go ahead and make my own site. For now, however, I'll probably try and sell them at markets. My good friend keeps trying to get me to go and sell stuff with her at her place. There's a market place that sells goods and she wants to sell stuff there. idk, maybe I'll go there, just for the hell of it.

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Yet more to add to what I've made directly above:

None of these are pierced!