Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

My newest tools have been on the floor long enough!   The doming kit and the Swantrom Disc Cutter Set were getting dusty and I was getting anxious to try them out.   Out of the box and unwrapped! Swantrom Disc Cutter Set Remember my trip to the junk yard in a previous blog?   My friend, Kim, and I divided the scrap metal and the wire and it too was sitting on the floor.   Right!   I could hardly walk to the work bench. I had a couple of polymer clay discs ready for something and I liked the blue copper (someone’s failed etching project) from the junk yard.   So I took the disc cutter and tried it out.   After a couple of tries with the mallet, I had a disc.   Wow! It works!   And a second disc and tiny holes in each of those. I was careful to leave enough blue copper around the holes I cut so that I could use the leftover for another project I have in mind. Next the doming kit…not as easy.   In fact, I watched a Beaducation video on YouTube about using it and I will prac

Not long ago, I cleaned out one of my sewing drawers.   I had a lot of pieces of vintage lace.   At one time I was going to make wonderful Victorian accessories but that time has passed.   Ashley Spicer is a friend who is so talented, the creativity just drips off her fingers!   She makes fabulous children’s clothes as well as ‘Elf Coats’ for grownups.      She just started making corsets and cuffs and uses recycled fabrics.   She was the perfect candidate for my laces.  Check her out at http://www.etsy.com/people/beTwitterpated    My cousin, Sally, lives in San Angelo and we share our love of art and living often.   When I told her I gave my laces to Ashley, she said, “You photographed them first didn’t you?”   Hmmm. Well NO I had not.   It seems Sally does a lot of digital scrapbooking and was drooling over what she thought I had given away with no record.   You never know …..   The day I took photographs of Ashley in her ‘Elf Coats’ for her art submittal, I also picked up the

We always have several projects going on at our house.  Peter is building a series of custom oak cages for our lizards.   He's been designing, measuring and building them carefully.  They will have lights and heaters and meet the requirements for each kind of lizard.    The backs of the cages have screen on the upper half for ventilation and the lower half is a smooth board.   He wants these habitats to be realistic like those found in nature.   Since lizards love to climb around on rocks,Peter used ‘FixAll’ to create the rock texture.     I used acrylic paints to finish the rock representation.   Painting the board to look like natures rocks Ready to assemble Assembled A series of 3 cages This morning we let Willie try it out.   A test run! We think he likes his new condo!  Willie, the bearded dragon, on his rocks