I picked up a cute little hutch for a dollar at a craft store, and kept picturing it done up with milk paint and beadboard. But wooden dollhouse-scale beadboard or siding -- adorable though it is -- comes in big expensive sheets (plastic is cheaper), and is thick enough that it would really reduce the... Continue Reading →
When I made roses from Sculpey III polymer clay for my rose and semiprecious stone earrings, the fine edges crumbled as I was assembling the earrings. Roses made from Fimo clay, though, stood up to abuse -- and by abuse I mean my cats knocking them off the counter and chasing them around on a... Continue Reading →
For my buddies on the City-O-Clay polymer clay listing: Here's how I made my DIY "cookie" cutters. (These are intended for cutting shapes in polymer clay; no representation of their food safety is made 🙂 ) Materials: Piece of tin roof flashing, about 49 cents at hardware store Tools: Tin snips, file, pliers (little jewelry... Continue Reading →
I got to wondering how hard it would be to wire some LEDs I had (left over from another project) straight to batteries... Not hard at all, it turns out, thanks to Instructables.com (LED Throwies, LEDs for Beginners). The LEDs I had include pre-wired resistors, so that saved some labor. One phonecall to my dad... Continue Reading →
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