Just couldn’t resist reposting this. Very well done and precise instructions.
http://www.lacquerized.com/2010/05/how-to-how-i-paint-my-nails.html
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This bead is about 1.3″ on the long axis. I made it during a class with Brad Pearson, who is an excellent teacher. Much larger than I normally work, but I really like how it came out. This bead was made using Effetre soda-lime glass on a Nortel Minor Burner.
My sister Jeanne made these beautiful pieces of jewelry. I think its more a testament to her jewelry making than my bead making though. She’s got a fantastic eye for combining things asymetrically, and managed to take a batch of wholly unremarkable beads and turn them into something beautiful. All beads were made using a GTT Lynx torch.
Here’s my nail polish collection in all it’s glory. Here’s a gallery of nail polish designs from the last year. Let me know if you’d like to see a tutorial or description of any of them. These are done with a combination of regular polish, striping polish, acrylic paints, Konad or Bundle Monster stamping plates, glitter, and fimo clay slices. Two are from tutorials I saw on Youtube. Two are Sally Hansen Salon Effects ‘polish stickers’. Most are my own design. All were built on a base of either Shellac or Gelish UV cured nail polish, which makes the designs last a week or two. On a pale pink base of Sensationail LED cured polish in Pink Chiffon I used a sponge to graduate the color to the slightly darker Sally Hansen Bubblegum Pink. The vines were painted with Stripe Rite striping color (no name) in an iridescent blue-green color. I bobbed the color on a pallet and used my own short striping brush as the one in the bottle is way too thick. Topcoat with Seche Vite. I own three cured nail polish systems: Shellac, Gelish, and Sensationails. The Sensationails are competitively priced and available at CVS. They are very easy to apply, but harder to remove than either Shellac or Gelish. I’ll do a review of the three systems sometime.
I’m a big fan of Matt Schifferle over at Red Delta Project. He has a very no-nonsense approach to fitness and is a great resource for instructional videos on bodyweight exercise techniques. My opinion of Matt jumped even higher when I read this article by him: When Healthy Diets Attack! In this article Matt has managed to sum up everything that is wrong with the way the marketing industry has taken over our food consumption, to the point where we don’t know how to eat anymore. Don’t know how to eat? Seriously, is there anything more fundamental to any living organism? Read the article, you’ll be glad you did. The analogy is long, but perfect. Some people are realizing the insanity of this food-denial-obsessed culture. See the Worst Celeb Diet Tricks to Avoid for an example of some of the insanity.
Next in the series of designs that Miranda has requested is the rose capelet. (See also the Bunny Express Vest). This is another design that she saw in a Happy Happy Clover manga. Here is the design drawing I found on my table. It was followed by several others, but this one I think captured the sense of it best. Basically it is a pink hooded capelet, with a cutwork lower hem and a rose and petal closure. She also explained that the circles spread across the shoulders of the cape are ‘sparkles’.  Capelet design drawing Ingredients
I used McCalls 4703 for the pattern. I used the short version of the pattern, but did not add the fur hem band. Instead I added 2″ to the length of the cape to allow for the cutwork. I used pink polarfleece for the cape, and red fleece for the rose and green polar fleece for the leaves.  McCalls 4703 Capelet pattern I created the scallops by folding the fronts into even quarters and the back into 8ths. I marked the fold points and those marks are where I cutout between the scallops. I made sure the high points of the scallops started at the center front and hit at the sides as well. To create the cutwork I created a template for the cutout portion from a business card, then traced around it inside each scallop. I stay stitched both the lower edge of the scallops and just outside the traced line for the cutouts. I then cut them out just inside the stay stitching. I had so much marking chalk on it by then that I put it through a quick cycle in the wash. Good thing polar fleece dries fast because Miranda was hovering by then asking when it would be done.  Cutting the capelet scallops To make the rose I used the pattern for felt flowers over at Crafted Sparrow. I ended up using red sweatshirt fleece because I didnt have any red polarfleece on hand. I’m sure either would work fine.  Capelet rose For the leaves, I drew a pair of leaves with a space between them to mount the rose. I cut that out of dark green polarfleece and used light green thread to stitch in the leaf’s vein pattern as well as to reinforce the center piece.  Capelet Leaf pattern After stitching, I re-trimmed the edges to get rid of the fuzzy bits, then used fray check to reduce further fuzzing. I reinforced the underside of the center piece with a small scrap of quilting cotton.  Caplet leaf reinforcement Next I cut off one of the leaves, close to the edge of the reinforcement patch (sorry forgot to capture a picture of this). Then I sewed the hook portion of a pants clasp onto the underside of the reinforced portion of the leaf/rose assembly. I sewed the loop portion of the clasp onto the upper side of the leaf-only side. Then attached each side of the closure to each side of the cape at the neckline, making sure that the rose piece projected far enough past the edge of the front edge to be able to reach the loop. See below for a closeup that should help explain this better. Yes, I was lazy and used the dark green thread I had on the needle rather than changing to pink like I should have.  Capelet clasp attachment detail Next I attached the sequins scattered across the capelet. I used iridescent white sequins as these seemed more snowy and sparkly to me. Pink or gold would have worked nicely as well. Here’s the finished caplet, then a closeup of the closure.  Finished capelet  Capelet closure detail closeup Miranda frequently leaves little drawings around of designs she’d like me to make. I can tell its time to do something about it when she keeps showing me alternate views of the design. Here is a recent item I made for her that was inspired by her favorite manga Happy Happy Clover. Bunny Express Vest  One of several 'design drawings' left in my sewing room Here is the finished vest. Please excuse the rumpled appearance, but Miranda has been wearing it all day (and sleeping in most nights) for the last two weeks. Its nice to have my work appreciated.  Front of the vest  Back of the bunny express vest I’ve created a tutorial over at Instructables, showing how to make these decorative and functional pattern weights. I hope you enjoy it.
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