Im back

Hello everyone,
I have been off line as the computer needed re-booting , but hope to catch up with you all . Im feeling creative again! I may start by doing some re-cycling of Christmas cards that i havent thrown out from last year.

Welcome back.

My computer has had a spring clean today too. Backed up all my files and photos. Downloaded a lot of old stuff on to discs and deleted from the hard drive. (including about 3000 photos)

Installed some updates for Windows, Java etc and it seems to be running a bit quicker now.

CraftyKate wrote:Hello everyone,
I have been off line as the computer needed re-booting , but hope to catch up with you all . Im feeling creative again! I may start by doing some re-cycling of Christmas cards that i havent thrown out from last year.

Glad to see you back again

poppytree wrote:Welcome back.

My computer has had a spring clean today too. Backed up all my files and photos. Downloaded a lot of old stuff on to discs and deleted from the hard drive. (including about 3000 photos)

Installed some updates for Windows, Java etc and it seems to be running a bit quicker now.

Jane would you come to my house and clean out my computer... I need to back up our computer and it really needs a clean up. It's a tad sluggish... sometimes like me... I need to get some disc and do the same. -sigh- Do you have "Windows Vista?" That's the windows system we have. I'm hoping that it will be just a matter of "clicking on back up and inserting the disc in".
Robin

Jane what a wonderful holiday you could have Robin would have to pay your expenses of course, as it's business you would also have to fly out business class

Thanks all ,for the welcome back.
I bought a dragon fly from a craft fayre in Warwickshire, they were wired with a beaded body and are really lovely. They looked like the wings were done with a liquid which sets like glass then painted with glass paint. Does anyone know where i can get this liquid glass please? thanks Kate.

I'm still on Windows XP. Can't afford to pay out for the latest versions of all the Microsoft programmes when this works OK. I don't even have the full version of Office -just the student & teachers 2003 version.

If it ain't broke -don't try to fix it I say!

CraftyKate wrote:Thanks all ,for the welcome back.
I bought a dragon fly from a craft fayre in Warwickshire, they were wired with a beaded body and are really lovely. They looked like the wings were done with a liquid which sets like glass then painted with glass paint. Does anyone know where i can get this liquid glass please? thanks Kate.

If its like the flowers I have seen at local craft fairs they said they were made with wire fames and liquid acrylic, but were not very forthcoming with where to get it from. I haven't searched on the net for a supplier but may when I'm ready to try it out

Oh and welcome back Kate

Thanks Jen,
I have also been looking for pins , the flat one,s to hold the backs of pictures frames in. Cant seem to track any down and wondering what they are called?

CraftyKate wrote:Thanks all ,for the welcome back.
I bought a dragon fly from a craft fayre in Warwickshire, they were wired with a beaded body and are really lovely. They looked like the wings were done with a liquid which sets like glass then painted with glass paint. Does anyone know where i can get this liquid glass please? thanks Kate.

Dip it Fantasy Film http://www.lainesworld.co.uk/craft/fantasyfilm.htm

I took mine to a charity shop last year as I never used it after the first day I bought it years ago when my daughter was about 12 and we did have fun with it, quite easy to do but never really found a use for it - probably could now

Oh thanks again Jacky I know what I will be playing with after Christmas he he

You may be able to find it elsewhere, I just googled for it and that was the first site I found, then got carried away browsing the site - hence the plastic baubles

Thanks Jacky,
I looked on e-bay yesterday under liquid acrylic , which came under nail art! Im a bit bothered if the fumes might affect my chest with the large tins though . But the website is great!

I can't remember any fumes, and I let my daughter play with it I can't imagine the stuff they use for nail art would be the same thing, but I don't know Don't know how you would dip the wires into it either

Im going to order some of the liquid acrlic from the site you mentioned Jen. Will i be ok with the normal clear stuff ,without the thinner or hardener?
Thanks again Kate

Wasn't my link hun and I honestly have no idea how to do any of it, just said its one of the things I would like to have a go at after Christmas. Sorry I can't help you

I dont think you would need thinners immediately but as you use it and it is open to the air it will evaporate and thicken so may need some then. I have just been reading the instructions on the site and there is obviously fumes as it says use in a well ventilated area When I used it there wasn't any hardener - just different colours so had no need to paint them so I wouldn't know about that I quite fancy doing it again now You are tempting me

Sorry Jackie , got you r name mixed up!iI will order some thinner too,when i do order the stuff . It isnt dear stuff,I have some Pebeo glass paints also which i can use on it . Its funny i have been thinking of making some angels in Mache, this fantasy film would also make angel wings!

What a good idea, it would be lovely for angels wings. You will have to take photos and post them on here when you do them

Oh yes please do post photos for us to see, that would be lovely