Prior Polish Designs

Cherry blossoms

Here’s a gallery of nail polish designs from the last year.  Let me know if you’d like to see a tutorial or description of any of them.

These are done with a combination of regular polish, striping polish, acrylic paints, Konad or Bundle Monster stamping plates, glitter, and fimo clay slices.  Two are from tutorials [...]

Miranda’s Capelet

Next in the series of designs that Miranda has requested is the rose capelet. (See also the Bunny Express Vest). This is another design that she saw in a Happy Happy Clover manga.

Here is the design drawing I found on my table.  It was followed by several others, but this one I think captured [...]

Miranda’s Bunny Express Vest

Miranda frequently leaves little drawings around of designs she’d like me to make. I can tell its time to do something about it when she keeps showing me alternate views of the design. I can get a hint.

Here is a recent item I made for her that was inspired by her favorite manga Happy [...]

Covered Magazine Holders

So I decided my magazine holders were just too ugly. I had those cheap cardboard, faux-wood ones…I mean, does anyone seriously think faux wood grain is a good idea rendered in cardboard?   I selected some fabrics form my stash, used spray glue and a little Sobo, and covered all my magazine holders. 27 of them.   [...]

Bubble Jet Set & Hot Crystals

I’ve been experimenting with a bottle of Bubblejet Set 2000 I bought some time back. Its a liquid in which you soak a piece of fabric and let it dry (I used a good quality muslin for the images below). Then you iron it to freezer paper and cut it to standard paper size. The [...]

Redwork Designs

Here are some redwork designs that I drew based on a fabric I am using to redecorate my kitchen. I’ve added a scan of the fabric at the bottom.

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Silk Ribbon Embroidery Jacket

Here are some pictures of a black crepe evening jacket I made with embroidery in silk ribbon, perle cotton, and beading on the lapels (all in black, although the seed beads were actually clear with a black tint to them). The picture quality is really terrible. Its difficult to photograph black-on-black pieces effectively.

On the [...]

Using Procion Fiber Reactive Dyes

This is my favorite type of dye. This dye is suitable for all cellulose fibers (cotton, rayon, linen, wood, even tagua nuts). It gives brilliant, saturated colors. Its has a good rating for both light-fastness and wash-fastness. It also doesn’t require any heavily toxic chemicals. Although you have to be careful with the soda ash.

I [...]