They are much cuter in person. I saw online someplace that someone had made some of these with shrinky dink stuff. When I started surfing to find the tutorial again, I couldn't find it. BUT!! I did find another tutorial about using other plastic to shrink, so I tried it and it worked! This tutorial (which I can't find either....) said that clear plastic with a recycling code '6' will shrink and that you can find it on deli type stuff. I found this on top of a rotisserie chicken from Walmart. Washed it, colored it with Sharpies, punched it out with craft punches (which was super hard, so had muscle bound son and husband do that part), stuck a pin through each one, stuck the pin into a potato, put the potato in the oven at 350 for about 30 sec (give or take.....) and presto! Wallah! Cutest pins ever!!! I hate pins. They're so much easier to use and less irritating if they are cute. It's hard to see the colors in the pic, but the silver did the best, I think. I might try paint pens next time. I gotta get some more craft punches...
And here are some monkey wrench blocks that followed me home from an estate sale this weekend. They are all hand pieced! There are some other ones, but I forgot to take pics of them. I'll try to remember to do that tomorrow.
And then there was 'this' beautiful thing that I found at the same sale. For $10!!! It has it's original warranty (lifetime!) that says it was purchased in 1962. And you know what? I don't think it's been sewn on more than a couple of times. It's clean as a whistle and runs buttery smooth. And it's the heaviest machine I've ever come across! Has all it's attachments. Does a zigzag. Even the bobbin tire is in good shape. I've been trying not to accumulate a bunch of machines, but I just couldn't resist this one. Big sister likes it cuz it's green. She's into green.OH! The spider left. It rained the next day and I guess she didn't like the rain. Haven't seen her since. Which is a little scary.....
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I guess your big spider is like the 'itsy bitsy spider' . . . "down came the rain and washed the spider out" . . . keep an eye out for her!
Love you and miss you all,
Mom
Incredibly cute pins, maybe could make push pins too. I remember shrinky-dinks when I was a kids, boy were they stinky when they were cooking. :)
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