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Posted on June 27, 2008 - by Chezlin
That’s hot. Seriously. Hot, fused plastic. Tote.
Man, I haven’t posted in a loooong long time.. I had to brush the dust off of this thing before I started this post! Haha. I apologize, I don’t even have a real good reason, but I’ll try to make it up to you with this post.
I was trying to get myself out of this no crafting deal I had been having for a while by flipping through some of my old magazines for inspiration.. when I found just what I needed.
I saw this bag on the right, and I knew I had to make one. That bag, from Keen Footwear is actually made from woven rice paper, but I decided to do mine with fused plastic. I used a tutorial from the Etsy Labs on how to fuse the plastic bags. After that I just made a basic tote.. with some woven details. Here’s what was created:
Posted on May 31, 2008 - by Chezlin
Adventures in Bread Making.
I love to bake and cook, but I’ve never tried to make bread before.. that is, until a few days ago. Unfortunately my first loaf turned out wierd and half unbaked, but I’ve since then redeemed myself. The kind of bread I chose for my first ever to bake is challah. When it came to the egg wash and the topping I changed the recipe slightly. I’ll elaborate on that when I get there though.. for now, I’ll talk you through the journey!
Ingredients:
2 teaspoons yeast
1/4 warm water
3 1/2 cups flour sifted
4 eggs (only three go in to the dough, the last is for the egg wash)
1/4 honey
1/4 oil
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
Posted on May 24, 2008 - by Chezlin
My adventures in printmaking
This semester I took printmaking where we did some intaglio(pronounced intalio… I seemed like an idiot because when I signed up I went around telling everyone how I was taking intaglio and I emphasized the g.. anyway) We also did some lino cuts and a colograph, but I’ll post all of my other prints on another day. Today I’ve decided to do a kind of step by step of intaglio. Not a tutorial, because there are a lot of little things that you just learn from watching someone or from learning from them in person. Anyway, on to the pictures!
My sketch on the right, with my two plates covered with asphaltum and etched in to. You’ll see why I did two plates in the next few pictures.
Dun dun dun! The acid room!
Posted on May 17, 2008 - by Chezlin
It’s time to dye some shoes.
A week or two ago, my little sister asked me if I could dye her shoes black because she didn’t like the blue and red plaid. I finally decided to do it and share the process with you guys. This is my first time dying shoes, so I might have done some things strangely, so if there’s any way I can improve, please let me know!
What I used: shoes, dye, a container, gloves, cotton balls(not pictured)
Posted on May 9, 2008 - by Chezlin
A skirt!
I’m so sorry for my disappearance everyone! I had to run away to work on school work and whatnot.. finals week called for many projects, papers, etc. but now I’m all done! Yay! My older sister is done with college too.. cept not like me.. I still have a year to go. No, she’s done completely! We’re heading to her school to watch her graduation today, and I had a skirt I was going to wear but when I was looking at it last night and decided that it looked too much like a work skirt.. so I decided to make something to wear. I combed through my fabric stash and picked these:
I’ve had these for so long!
So I got to sewing and cutting. I had just vacuumed my floor and now I have to do it again because of all the seeds I had to cut off of this fabric so it wouldn’t break the needle in my machine..
Here’s the finished product!
Don’t pay attention to the green shirt, it’s just what I was wearing at the time haha.
Kinda blurry, sorry 
Again, apologies for the lack of posting.. I have a lot of things lined up, I just never had time. I do now though! 
Posted on April 28, 2008 - by Chezlin
Ceramics!
The semester is wrapping up so we finally were able to take our ceramic pieces home! Here are mine.
Stoneware. Pinch method. Raku. The assignment was to mix organic with something man-made. I did a water drop mixed with the grid pattern in the ceiling of our class.
Posted on April 24, 2008 - by Chezlin
Paper making tutorial
Sorry for the lack of posts recently, school is wrapping up so I’ve been busy with random papers, projects, etc. Hopefully soon I can start to post on a regular schedule rather than so randomly. Anyway, I finally had a little time to craft, so I decided to make paper. Exciting!
Here are some pictures of my journey:
Posted on April 19, 2008 - by Chezlin
Oldie but Goldie: Boo table
When I was a freshman in college, my mom bought me a table to somehow fit into my tiny dorm room.. It was ugly and white, and my roommate and I knew we had to do something to make it fit into our room better. See, we were both artsy people so a plain white table in our colorful room would not do. My roomate brought a carpet one day and after situating the table on top of it, we knew what we had to do to the table.
Here’s a blurry picture of what we did:
(Thats my messy ass side of the room) We used electrical tape around the side of the table so it’d be black instead of that weird brown.. it made it look more finished.
But it doesn’t end there!
Posted on April 15, 2008 - by Chezlin
Baby quilts galore!
Well actually, not galore.. because there’s only two, but you get the idea! When two of my friends told me they were pregnant, after the initial shock wore away, I got excited to make them baby quilts. I was hoping that at least one of them would have a girl, so I could make a cute girls quilt, but I had no such luck for they were both having boys. That didn’t stop me from making two cute quilts though!
Posted on April 13, 2008 - by Chezlin
Cassette tape tutorial
A few days ago I posted about my cassette tape wallet and how it’s held up over the past 10 months, and I promised a tutorial. Well here it is!
First you need to get your hands on a cassette tape. (more…)
