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Oi – oi- oi

19 Tuesday Jan 2016

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fabric iPad stand tutorial

My favorite iPad stand tutorial comes from Down Under (coincidentally one of my favourite places on this earth, especially Margaret River, Hunter Valley and Barossa). I’ve been fussing with it to make it a little more what I need it to be.

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A bed should be used for only one of two things, but sometimes a special dispensation is offered for the fact that the earth is round and we can’t watch live what we want to watch live at a reasonable hour.

I’m looking at you, NFL Playoffs.

I used a lovely scrap of velvet (12 inches by 18 1/2) to make my test model. I thought the pile of the velvet might add a little grip. The filling was a little tricky though, as I wanted this to squish appropriately to the angle at which it might be needed when used in a bed. In the end I went for bean baggy beads for the triangle shape and regular ol’ Polyfilla for the rectangle shape rest at the front.

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The version as designed has a cute wee fabric flower to cover the point at the back. I’m planning on making a few of these for gifts and will add that option as appropriate (yes for Auntie B. and Mom, probably no for my brother) but since this was meant to be held on a lap or rested up against knees it wasn’t needed. For what I want it for, the bead filling was too much, but instead of taking some out I decided to try this:

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If you need it to squish to a different shape, the filler now has a little extra space to move into,

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but can easily change back to a firmer table top version.

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The tutorial I used was so good (video version in denim available) I didn’t look for any others so I’m perfectly willing to acknowledge there might be something on the interweb just like this already. Them’s the breaks of blogging.

On to Beta testing. This has the look of a charity project so I must write the designer to make sure it’s okay to make a few dozen for my cause this year (I pick a new one each year). It would be more charity for ME given the pile of upholstery fabric scraps and huge bag each of filler and bean bag beads I could be rid of….

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Back to the grind

18 Monday Jan 2016

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chai tea sugar scrub diy

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The chai tea sugar scrub I made the other day with just out-of-date tea and lost in the back of the cupboard quite out of date brown sugar (and oil I needed to get for another recipe anyway) looks and smells good enough to eat.

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I am not going to recommend that.

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I can’t give you the ‘recipe’ as I winged it after having a quick internet search for such things. I put about eighty percent of the bag of sugar and all of the emptied out chai tea bags (perhaps a half cup all told) in a bowl, then chucked in some of the rapeseed oil (quarter cup to start). I mixed it really well to the consistency I wanted, then put in the rest of the sugar and a bit more oil.

There’s few things more useful craft wise than an

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emptied and well cleaned out Yankee Candle jar. I’m happy to report that they have a few tailored-for-my-current-country shops where I can go: it is wonderful to be abel to get these big heavy puppies here! We get tea lights when we travel to the Homeland but don’t even have to do that! The batch of sugar scrub I made filled it perfectly.

Perfect for this time of year when central heating helps turn one’s skin into a snake-like consistency. I can’t see making a lot of bath products, but with me on a ‘how did this house get so full of STUUUUUUFFFF’ kick there are other un-donateable food products that need using and that might be their fate.

Work continues on the enormous project for Rosslyn Chapel. I’m trying to get in a couple hours every day so the sections on which you will kneel get done ASAP and I can get on with the more decorative top sections.

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I know it looks a little bare in this corner of the craft room but I’m already thinking of what I’ll do to rearrange the space once the prie dieu pair is complete so there’s no sense in putting anything on the walls here. So much of 2015 was spent getting rid of no longer needed or wanted supplies I’m surprised it doesn’t look better in here than it did twelve months ago.

Oh well. No deadlines around here…as I constantly remind myself.

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