Posts Tagged ‘links’

6
Jan

Wigging out – With Tutorials

   Posted by: Rachel Ross    in art, crafty

Due to being “gently encouraged to post” by JB, I had to make sure I made a post tonight!

Some kind soul (actually, my aunt) bought me a “Bead-a-day” calendar that has a jewelry pattern for each day of the week (more or less). Yesterday and today’s “How to: Wire Wrapped Loops” may be something that we already know, but they sure gave a wonderfully detailed tutorial that will help me get back to basics – I know my wire wrapping is not the best!

I can’t show you the calendar page, but they DID say that the tutorial was from wigjig.com.
There are a LOT of great wire-working tutorials right here on their site.
They start with basic skills, but go on and on, and there is a link to an alphabetical listing of techniques!

In fact, if you don’t have a titular “Wig Jig” you’re missing out – they’re really fun!

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17
Nov

A Week of Links

   Posted by: Rachel Ross    in link dump

I decided to make a big pile of links that interested me this week. Hopefully you’ll find a few interesting too. And if you have any you’d like to add, by all means comment and/or mail me ( glimmer (at) glimmerville.com )

Well this week I found the website www.twellow.com – it’s a neat site that lets you search Twitter users by interest, so you can find other people whose interests mesh with yours. And, in fact, while on Twitter @GrammarGirl (who has a great podcast and book) mentioned this website: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/ that shows earthquakes practically as they happen.

Fogllama showed me this website http://finviz.com/calendar.ashx that lists economic indicators each day, and what their actual outcome was vs. the predicted outcome. It also gives an idea of how important those indicators are. Very cool. Or perhaps scary.

Aviary is a neat online art/photo-editing suite that aims to be a lot like Adobe CS.
I haven’t messed with it much, but I thought I’d share the link. While you’re at it, check out Tineye – this website lets you identify photos to minimize theft of your art and photos! And to make it a threesome, Google just released a new version of Sketchup, the online, free, 3D modeling software according to this blog.

My Korg DS-10 came this week, which also prompted me to download Milky Tracker (suggested by Dudymas) but I didn’t install it yet.

And I ordered some Apoxie sculpt from http://www.avesstudio.com/ – can’t wait to try this stuff.
So far all I made is this tiny axe:

I am having a hard time finding any tutorials, but I did find a website that supposedly carries DVDs. I haven’t tried ordering any yet. Another place that seems to sell sculpting DVDs is Massive Black.

The Ever Awesome JB has a new weekly comic all about Crested Geckos and it’s over here: http://jbscresties.com/comic/
She also has geckos for sale!

Well that’s about it for now. I know these links had very little rhyme or reason, but that’s about how I work.

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