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Contributor: LuckyDucky LuckyDucky
My name is Breeanna and I make fun and funky jewelry, paracord items, soaps and lip balms, and military themed goods. My Etsy user is DuckandCoverCrafts if anyone wants to check out my stuff!
I've been making jewelry for about 2 years now...but only in the last year has it really become my life. I do craft fairs and sell online. I also love doing fundraising projects.
11/28/2011
Contributor: Daemonin Daemonin
I'm Lindsey, but you can call me Dae or Daemonin. I answer to any of them.

I've been artsy pretty much all my life and actually went to school for art recently. While in school my emphasis was drawing and graphic design, but I've had to start online schooling and changed my major.

Lately I've been teaching myself to sew with a sewing machine. I know a bit, but I'm just trying to get better so I can make clothes for my daughter. ...And cute things for me

Other than that, I do a little of everything. Nice to meet y'all!
12/05/2011
Contributor: KyotoAngel KyotoAngel
Never was good at this sort of thing but it's lovely to meet you all, my name is Melissa but most people call me Mel or Missy.
I do pretty much any sort of craft that intrigues me but lately I'm all about making jewelry or books and building papercraft models.
I also love writing and drawing (poetry is by far my best talent).
12/10/2011
Contributor: sweetiejo sweetiejo
Hi i'm Maria, and i do mostly jewlery work for my crafts. I do alot of bead work but also do my own crystal designs and shaping, i also enjoy making hair bows. I do alot of very frilly, styles but also like to make more mature things in terms of my jewlry. I want to one day start to sell my designs if they are good enough. i have been doing it for about 2 years now.
12/17/2011
Contributor: SweetSurprise SweetSurprise
Hi All! Im Stephanie, I love all things crafty but do better with certain meduims. I love working with polymer clay, it can become almost anything you can dream of. Almost anyone can work with polymer clay, it's fairly easy to do beginners projects. I also love jewelry making and baking. I like to make cakes, cupcakes, pies, and work with chocolate. I've recently started scrap booking, which I'm enjoying immensely. I also started working with wood, I needed it for another project and it just stuck with me. I pretty much love doing anything involving some sort of.craft. I will try anything once, sometimes it sticks and sometimes it doesn't. I enjoy sharing what I know and learning from others. I'm glad to have found this club. Now let's get to crafting! Lol
12/31/2011
Contributor: nitebyrd nitebyrd
Hi! I make jewelry, dolls, mixed media, embroidery ... well, all sorts of crafts. I was an art major and create things to relieve stress. Most of my things are a bit odd. My Zombie Mommies© are rag dolls I sell on Etsy with my other stuff.

Do y'all have Etsy and/or Artfire shops?

I HATE to cook!
01/01/2012
Contributor: LivingandLoving LivingandLoving
I dabble and have dabbled in all sorts of crafts...most recently related to wedding-planning or gardening. I'm currently making barefoot sandals and the programs for our ceremony on the beach.

I come from a long line of crafters: My mom, grandma, and 4-H club taught me how to hand-sew, sew on a machine, knit, cross-stitch, dip candles, make chocolate molded candies, decorate cakes, and various other useful skills. I still do some things here and there, and I try to mend my own clothes instead of getting them altered. Sadly, my sewing machine, which was my mom's, is currently out of commission until I get get it to the repair shop downtown.

I don't see myself as very creative, but when the urge to craft and create or re-make/re-use something, I go with it. Sometimes when I'm in the right crafting/fixing mindset and I explain to my fiance what I'm doing, he says it's pretty cool that I think of creative solutions like that. To me, that's more being resourceful than creative, but I guess it counts.

I used to scrapbook too, though I've fallen away from that since college (I'm 29 now). I'd like to get back into it and try digital scrapbooking, but finding time with a full-time job is difficult. Plus, gardening is currently my main hobby.
05/14/2012
Contributor: KittyGoesRawr KittyGoesRawr
Ello! I'm that freaky-weird cat chick, AKA Maddie. I write original manga- Japanese style of comics, for those who don't know- about mythology n' whatnot. Most of my stuff is sketches and digital art in MS Paint, Photoshop, or, more recently, ArtStudio for iPad, but I'm getting back into painting and other mediums. I've also got a ton of random craft projects running through my head- a Cerberus doll (my version of it; a psychotic toy poodle), costumes, stuff like that. So yup. That's that.
06/14/2012
Contributor: SneakersAndPearls SneakersAndPearls
I mostly sew and bake. I've made clothes for myself, hubs, and kiddies, tea towels, purses, tote bags, handkerchiefs, aprons, soft toys... I made a few quilts, too. And then I make bread, rolls, cookies, pizzas, etc. Every now and then I crochet.

I've been at these things for a few years.
07/16/2012
Contributor: FallFire FallFire
I'm new to Eden. I'm happy to see an arts and crafts community here It's nice seeing a wide variety of crafters. I'm a papercrafter, mostly scrapbooking. I also do some cards and other paper projects. I have dabbled in beading, as well. As a result of the scrapbooking, I have been trying to improve my photography.

I am so envious of those of you who can sew! For some reason, what I learned in 6th grade home ec. just didn't stick in my brain :/ I can't even hem clothes myself. Perhaps some of you can inspire me to give it another go.

I have recently started cooking. I have gotten past the "assembling" stage (as my friend called it) and can now make things from scratch. I have been making many recipes from Amish Friendship Bread. Our local grocery store also makes stellar recipes (that you can take for FREE!), and provides a list of all necessary ingredients which can be found around the corner from the station. This makes it SUPER easy and inspiring.

Anyway, I look forward to getting to know you guys better!
07/21/2012
Contributor: mastersonv mastersonv
I've been doing crafts since I was a little girl. I enjoy making bows, cross stitching, scrapbooking, I ventured into making cloth diapers, painting, and making shirts. I have tried to make cakes before but they weren't a huge hit (they came out well but none of my family likes fondant) I only recently started making hair bows and such my next project is to start making tutus.
11/03/2012
Contributor: Voir Voir
Haven't ventured over to this section of the forums yet >_>

Er I'm Voir or Jess whichever doesn't matter.
I grew up watching my aunt draw, I picked up a pencil as son as I was old enough to hold one and started with the typical stick-ish things. But I would watch cartoons and look at coloring books and for those closer to my skill level would sit and wonder - why can't I do that? When I was four I think... I drew my first bodied person (not a circle and some lines but pants, shirt, hat and neck etc). Been drawing ever since.

I love watercolor - it is definitely my preferred paint but I am also competent in oil and use acrylic for more vibrant, flat palettes. I use pastel, color pencil, chalk, charcoal, graphite, ink, spray paint and regular mechanical or HB pencils to illustrate things. I am most comfortable with traditional mediums and work faster buttt I've developed a savvy use of Photoshop and PaintTool SAI over the years. So now I do digital art in those two programs as well as Adobe Flash.

I don't really stick to one style or type of art. Sometimes I draw horror/gore/monsters/c reatures and disfigurement other times I draw desudesukawaii shit. I prefer a semi-realistic semi-comic style; realistic proportions but less detail, more toon-ish but not anime or cartoonnetwork type of toon. Although sometimes I dabble in that as well. I like illustration - mostly of characters but I manage animals sometimes as well. I prefer freehand or just using a photo reference to drawing a still life.

I rather abhor stills - they are boring and mundane and basically are the same as a photo and I HATE them. Especially since I've seen people applauded more over a still than other artists whose creativity was absolutely mind boggling but it didn't look -real-. I think society is far too focused on "real" these days. If it's beautiful it's beautiful it doesn't have to look as though a camera snapped a black and white of it to be amazing.

Still I do know the purpose of stills, I partake of them mostly in the form of studies or in an attempt to nail a particular feature of an actor/model's face that I find attractive.
12/21/2012