Crafts & Things

Chime · Jan 14, 2015, 6:03 AM

75 sea critters.

Sploosh!

silentsophia · Jan 15, 2015, 3:30 AM

They do have some cuttlefish, a couple of octopodes and - I'll get some pictures up here shortly. My tablet is being angry.

Chime · Jan 15, 2015, 3:55 AM

@silentsophia said:

They do have some cuttlefish, a couple of octopodes and - I'll get some pictures up here shortly. My tablet is being angry.

eeee~

I also highly recommend https://www.reddit.com/r/awwnverts/ though that includes many many things outside Mollusca even.

silentsophia · Jan 22, 2015, 12:33 AM

That is an awesome subreddit. I may just bum the household scanner. There's a couple of invert patterns and such. The book is 75 Seashells, Coral and Colorful Marine Life to Knit and Crochet and I have Once Upon a Knit for fairy tale themed stuff. I can scan 1-2 patterns per person as long as more than 30% of the book is not scanned (yeah, it gets weird. Hooray for learning about this in grad school).

Luna · Jan 22, 2015, 2:50 AM

I'm super late to the game, but Kat Von D Tattoo liner is LITERALLY THE BEST THING EVER. I'm so serious about it I have 3 of them. One was a premium sample out of something Sephora gave me, then I got another thing with another premium sample (specifically for that sample) and then I bought a full size because just in case. It's often sold out at both my Sephora's so what if they didn't have it. I WOULD DIE. For real, I'm sure I would actually die. This is life or death stuff here y'all. If you watch her tutorial on application, you will be shocked and amazed. It totally changed my liquid eyeliner game.

As an aside, her shadows are pure heaven. I have 3 of her palates. And Urban Decay Vice. And the Naked to go. And Smashbox Full Exposure. And random assorted other shadows. I never wear foundation though, ever. Not even a dusting of powder. I hate the feeling of it and I have alright skin.

I have problems. Halp.

Sanguine · Jan 22, 2015, 5:19 AM

@Darinelle Have you checked http://www.blueapron.com/ ? It's a pretty neat idea for learning to cook without the schooling, though pricey. Also craftsy.com is great for cooking and sewing and other such things, again, a bit pricey, but I get a sewing course there on occasion on sale. The video tutorials are pretty great.

Today, I cross-stitch and bake mini-quiches, bread, and mini-pies, meat and vegetarian. Because when I'm working I dun wanna cook and I can freeze this stuff. This is as close to crafting as I've time for outside of MUing.

Darinelle · Jan 22, 2015, 5:43 AM

@Sanguine = I cook. I cook A LOT. I get the Bon Appetit magazine on my eReader and pick out the recipes that look interesting, and I cook those. I bake, too - all the things. If I can find a recipe for it, I can probably cook or bake it. What I can't do is make my baked goods look like they belong in a magazine. Those little finishing touches elude me. Sometimes. SOMETIMES! And other times you could come in and take a picture of my food and BAM. Amazing. The taste though? Taste-wise I'm usually good.

There are a bunch of little things here and there I want to know though, and I want to learn things like - cutting vegetables the fast and uniform way, and how to make my loaves of bread look like actual loaves of bread. And hell, I think just going to culinary school for the hell of it would be fun. Note that I could probably get a lot of this from youtube, forums, and various books - but I also like just going to classes.

@Luna - don't get me started. Five years ago, my friend wanted to do my makeup and I handed her my entire makeup supply - A year-old bottle of Cover Girl foundation, 3 shades of brown Origins eyeshadow, and a 4 year old tube of lip gloss. She stared at me, horrified, and then we went directly to Ulta and spent something like $300. I backslide from time to time now but uh... yeah. Also the UD Naked palette is amazing. AMAZING.And I love the KVD liner, though for ease I'm often lazy and use the Urban Decay liner pencils too - Bourbon's like, my go-to shade and it goes with everything and is the perfect shade of brown. PERFECT.

Don't get me started on nail polish. Srsly.

Sanguine · Jan 22, 2015, 5:55 AM

@Darinelle I think there's a free cutting class deal on there (craftsy). I am terrible at the uniform thing. My bread usually looks pretty good. I managed to braid challah perfectly once and I took a pic of that to send it to my mother I was so proud of the thing. The thing that currently eludes me is making the scallops on a pie crust look uniform. Tastes great, but not as pretty as I want it to be. Stupid pies. Ah well, taste is what matters. Pastry school would be a blast though!

Also, nail polish. We will not discuss the number of colors I have, and those neat patterned nail strips. (insert girly squee here, followed by head down in shame).

Usekh · Jan 22, 2015, 6:31 AM

I love baking and cooking. Sadly none of us in the household should have too many baked goods for various reason Still my TT group appreciates what we don't/shouldn't eat

surreality · Jan 22, 2015, 6:41 AM

@Darinelle said:

Don't get me started on nail polish. Srsly.

...thirded. I even got the stuff to mix custom colors, and blew an entire paycheck on chameleon pigments to that end once. Nail polish is a serious addiction.

Sanguine · Jan 22, 2015, 12:39 PM

@Usekh Yeah... I have these random moments of baking and end up giving away pies and cookies and brownies to soldiers because I want to make them, but I really don't want the expanding hips that would accompany it.

Miss Demeanor · Jan 22, 2015, 2:15 PM

I, uh... don't wear makeup. At all. Sometimes not even chapstick.

Luna · Jan 22, 2015, 1:49 PM

I get OPI for $3-$4 a bottle. Wholesale cost. Neeiner neeiner!!

ThatOneDude · Jan 22, 2015, 2:15 PM

@Miss-Demeanor said:

I, uh... don't wear makeup. At all. Sometimes not even chapstick.

Me either!

mietze · Jan 22, 2015, 6:58 PM

Day to day I do not wear makeup. Since my oldest was for a very long time very much a tomboy and all the rest of my children are male I honestly did not really expect to deal with it much--but since she has really started getting into it it's been a fun bonding experience. It's another excuse to sit down with my teen for an activity that she is very much in control over (since I don't know crap about it, she's the one teaching me or making me over so I'm not too embarassing and no, she doesn't say that to me, I like to tease her about it though), doing something, talking or not depending on her mood or indirectly chatting about what's going on (she also likes to come down to my practice and get a one hour massage every other week too, which is similar in that she tells me what she wants, she decides what if any aromatherapy, she picks the music, ect.).

So I think I understand at least the appeal now when I see her friends and her shopping for makeup/trying new things and sending silly snapchat or whatever pics to each other, ect. I am not sure if that's how ALL women get into makeup. Maybe I just didn't because I'm an only child who had pretty much all male friends until I was an adult and out of college!

Sanguine · Jan 22, 2015, 11:34 PM

@Luna I hate your face.

Sanguine · Jan 23, 2015, 12:02 AM

@surreality said:

@Darinelle said:

Don't get me started on nail polish. Srsly.

...thirded. I even got the stuff to mix custom colors, and blew an entire paycheck on chameleon pigments to that end once. Nail polish is a serious addiction.

Where did you get the stuff to custom mix? I need this in my life.

surreality · Jan 23, 2015, 2:59 AM

THB Trading -- http://www.tkbtrading.com/ (safe link, I swear!) There are a couple of other sites as well, but that one had the best selection, IMHO.

Beware, though. That site is dangerously easy to spend a fortune on. They even have holo mixers.

EVIL, I tell you. EVIL.

The 'travel to... ' pigments are the chameleons. Not cheap, but oooooh, shiny.

...dammit, they have flakies now. facepalm I had to look, I just had to, and... siiiiigh.

Sanguine · Jan 23, 2015, 2:59 AM

@surreality Thanks. Also, oh dear God. It's the nirvana of polish. o.o

surreality · Jan 23, 2015, 10:29 AM

I'm sometimes bad, though -- I also have picked up some glitters designed for custom car mods that work. They're one of the only other solvent-resistant glitters around. It's just sold as 'metal flake' when it is... glitter. Seriously, it's glitter. It's exactly glitter.

They can't say they're safe for cosmetics because technically speaking, by law, NO glitter is in the US. Even though it's everywhere, in everything. (It's a long-winded bag of bull about particle size, and why some companies tell people to never use glitter around their eyes because that's the actual relevant risk.)

If I can find the link to the place on ebay I used to nab those from in small quantities, I'll pass it along. There's a few good solvent-resistant glitter vendors on etsy, too.

Most glitter just melts and bleeds dye into the solution. I got a bunch of tester bottles and dropped some base and some of the various crafty ones I had around to check, and pretty much all of them bled. I let them sit for six months and reviewed, and yep... bleed. Though some bled in a way that made a really nice tint with silver glitter, so if you're willing to experiment, some of those can be potentially useful, too, if you don't mind the soak-and-bleed time. (There was a black like that from Martha Stewart -- it's a black and greenish sparkle -- that mixed amazingly with the holo, for instance for a black rainbow.)