Melita
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« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2009, 04:41:PM » |
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I filled a few baskets with homemade hot cocoa mix, chocolate cookies, handmade cards, and some fused plastic items I created.
What's a fused plastic item? Home mixed cocoa sounds delicious. |
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“I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.” - Flannery O'Connor
Then again I asked him, "supposing the Pope looked up and saw a cloud and said 'It's going to rain', would that be bound to happen?"
"Oh, yes, Father."
"But supposing it didn't?"
He thought a moment and said, "I suppose it would be sort of raining spiritually, only we were too sinful to see it."
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2009, 05:24:PM » |
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« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2009, 07:22:PM » |
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I crocheted a hat, scarf, and purse for my niece. I did some small crochet christmas ornaments, also.
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« Reply #13 on: December 25, 2009, 01:42:AM » |
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Among the immediate family we usually exchange 'store bought' gifts that we think another could use, might need, or would like (or gift cards).
For friends I make candles (small votives and pillars - haven't tried to dip candles yet). I mostly do a 50 / 50 beeswax and paraffin mix (with the paraffin coming from recycled candle stubs). I've been doing soy wax lately also, and really like it.
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« Reply #14 on: December 25, 2009, 06:28:AM » |
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Great! I might try this.... better than stuffing discarded bags into a drawer. |
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“I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.” - Flannery O'Connor
Then again I asked him, "supposing the Pope looked up and saw a cloud and said 'It's going to rain', would that be bound to happen?"
"Oh, yes, Father."
"But supposing it didn't?"
He thought a moment and said, "I suppose it would be sort of raining spiritually, only we were too sinful to see it."
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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SaraLucille
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« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2009, 12:03:AM » |
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Great! I might try this.... better than stuffing discarded bags into a drawer.
Good! It's really fun, and sort of addicting.  |
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« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2009, 09:13:AM » |
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One problem: I don't think the woman in the video tells you what setting to use on your iron.
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« Reply #17 on: December 27, 2009, 11:31:PM » |
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I use the "nylon" setting... ? I think lower is better for bags from Barnes & Noble, Children's Place etc. and higher is better for bags from Target, HyVee etc. Too hot and the bags usually shrivel. It's most important to just keep the iron moving, and on a "mediumish" setting. It's all sort of an experiment.
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« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2010, 12:15:AM » |
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But what about fumes from the plastic?
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« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2010, 12:46:AM » |
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But what about fumes from the plastic?
You missed this part: Good! It's really fun, and sort of addicting.  If that wasn't funny to you...then it's just proof that it's awfully past my bedtime. Good night.  |
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