Posts by Cat Morley

    For me, it's definitely Vivienne Westwood, I love all of her designs and wish I could afford them. I also like Joey D, a designer in Edinburgh who reconstructs jackets and bags out of old army clothes, he's so cool.



    Here's a bag he gave me on my birthday. I have another one that has bullets on the strap (which is a nightmare when going through airports) and Tom has a huge collection of his jackets.

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    I know we all love craft here, but are there any that you particularly hate or get on your nerves?

    For me, it's kind of scrapbooking. I like doing it, but I do it more for inspiration and necessity rather than fun and I get a bit annoyed at the amount of attention it gets over other crafts.

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    Yeah, you could embroider them by cutting out fabric shapes to cover the areas where there are holes and embroidering around them to make it part of the design - no-one would know the patches were there to cover holes then.

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    Are pony beads the round, flat ones that are usually made of plastic and come in bright colours?

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    Those are great ideas. I'm just taking mine down today (late I know!) and I'll see what I can do with them. I'm keeping all my CO+K card swap ones forever though!

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    We should start a clutternutter help group.

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    I love innocent smoothies, they're a bit too pricey though.

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    Roma, when is the send off date for this?

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    Anyone else watching it? I like that they've purposely picked intelligent people, but I'm not sure if it makes for better viewing.

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    Okay, so this is really embarrassing, but I've become hooked on The Hills - there's something hypnotically simple about it, I just can't look away.

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    I complain about having to pay for prescriptions, but really, I don't know how lucky I've got it here in the UK.

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    That's really upset me, I asked them to remove it and they said this -
    "Sorry if it upset you. She already provided the link and it's available publically."

    I just feel it really devalues my work because you don't get the full effect of the instructions without the photos. It's not my fault that someone else posted the link to my tutorial (which I don't mind) but that doesn't give them permission to copy and paste it without asking me.

    This kind of thing happens a lot - some magazine republished a bunch of my tutorials, without even telling me, and they had rewritten some of the steps and they didn't even make sense. It really hurts when you take time to make tutorials and people don't respect they work you've put in.

    Has this kind of thing happened to anyone else?

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    One of the moderators on Craftster copied and pasted one of my tutorials on to the site without asking my permission. It really upsets me when people don't respect the work you've done and feel like they can just do whatever they want with it Happy

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    You could melt them down and make cool plastic things with them!

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    Does anyone have any tip for using omni gel to transfer images. It was all going well for me until the point where I had to roll off the paper. When rolling it off, only the first layer of paper came off smoothly and the bottom layer of paper just stayed in place. When I rolled off the second layer it ended up ripping the gel and the image became really worn out. Any tips / suggestions?

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