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How to Keep Markers From Bleeding on Wood
Shellac. I love shellac. It is non-toxic, and it isn’t made out of plastic. What is shellac? From Wikipedia: Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug, on trees in the forests of India and...
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Mesh Collecting Bag Tutorial
This no-internet thing is killing me. Technically it isn’t no-internet it is 300 Bytes per second internet, 2KB/s on a good day, when you can actually download your email. Expect posts to be sparse (as...
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Twig Chair Tutorial
Aren’t these cute? Am I allowed to say that about my own work? I was so thrilled with how they turned out, and how really simple they are to make that I had to photograph the construction of one so...
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How to Make a Drop Spindle
Spinning is awesome, and I bet you have everything in your house you need to make a spindle, and if you have a dog, or some other sheddy type of pet you might have everything you need to spin! (But...
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Rose Wand Tutorial
Here is another never posted project from 2010, a rose wand, complete with a photo tutorial for the intrepid to follow. As always, when making something, start by observing the original. And then...
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Leprechaun Door Sorta Tutorial
One more week of teaching Arts Focus, and I’ve taken a contract at work. So much going on that I’m starting to need to write things down, I’m pretty sure I have more projects going than I can even...
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Spring Flower Fairies Tutorial (Friday Art Group)
It was just the Spring Equinox! So we made fairies. We always make flower fairies, or something for them, like houses. This year we shared it with our art group. The moms had a great time making these...
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Magic Mirror
Wow, over a month. I’m teaching art at school again, we are still doing lots of fabulous things, but obviously not chronicling them! Hopefully you have me in your blog reader, and aren’t forlornly...
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Acid Dye Part 1
Acid Dye is a fancy name for food coloring. Okay, okay, food colors belong to the class of dyes known as acid dyes. Are food colors acids? No, acid dyes are called acid dyes because the chemical...
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Acid Dye Part 3: Painted Yarn Dolls
If you missed it Acid Dye Part 1 describes the basic dyeing process, and Acid Dye Part 2: Science is a fun dye science demonstration. Brief recap: Food colors are acid dyes, they only work on protein...
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