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Junk Creation

Archive for September 2007

September 22nd, 2007

Recover Used Books–Part 3

Just a reminder–Today, Saturday is Friday.  (I explained what I mean Thursday of last week.)
Today, I’ll show you how to make the leather cover for your book.  It looks like I will have 4 parts to this instructional set, after all.  Next time we should be able to glue the cover onto the press-board/paperback book we [...]

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September 21st, 2007

7 Unforgetable Projects

 Just a reminder–Today, Friday is Thursday.  (I explained what I mean yesterday.)
Today is a list–one close to my heart–of my top 5 favorite projects (that I made myself) posted so far!

Rubber Covered Journal–With Belt!  This one is up because I was so pleased with how it turned out!
Scrap Leather Beads  This one has such potential [...]

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September 20th, 2007

Green Bean’s Red Lamp

The posts for the rest of this week will be skewed a bit.  There are several reasons for this change: 1) Tomorrow’s post is a group sort of post related to b5media and we are all doing list posts, which fit better with a “grab bag” post than with a “how-to” post, 2) I have [...]

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September 19th, 2007

The Great Pillow Makers

Today, I’d like to jump back to an old theme and talk about great Junk Creators.
As I understand it, pillows have been stuffed with such soft things as feathers (Junk Creators must have gathered them from domesticated birds.  Wouldn’t it be interesting if, originally, pillows made from wild feathers were more in-style and/or expensive?)  The [...]

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September 18th, 2007

Puzzle Pendant–a Second Look

Today’s post is short–but, I hope, useful.
This puzzle pendant is much like one I featured a while ago on a Puzzle Piece Pendant post.  I had originally thought it would be interesting to see if they were created by the same person.  I can say that they both bear the name “Tias_Treasures.”
I think this new [...]

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September 17th, 2007

Recover Used Books–Part 2

Okay, I said on Friday that we would burn the cover art–but I ran out of time, so I’ll show you how to convert the paperback cover into a hard backed cover.
Now, make sure you have the press-board pieces you cut out last time, and you will need some muslin (or other stiff, but not thick, [...]

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