Leather Girl

Welcome fellow Albertan,welcome to this great leather site. Randi-Lee

Welcome to as others have said the best leather forum on the web. Now it depends on how limited your tools are but than can be accomplished with minimal tools. Always try it out on some scrap leather. Once you get the pattern onto the leather and start working with the knife and other tools you will see how easy it is. If you have some deer foot tools they are a help in this and would work well. Randi-Lee

Vegtan leather is still leather not vegetable. Basically the only thing one could do this on is using a wood burning tool and burning it into wood but wood is not help at all. The only thing you can do with faux leather is sew it. So you will have to tell your vegan friend it is leather or nothing. Randi-Lee

As I pay more in Canada for leather etc., along with if I have to ship it in. If I ship it in it is the cost of goods, shipping, what I am hit for gst and customs along with brokerage. I charge $30. per hour on top of it for my labour and tooling, I like to leave a little wiggle room and people always whine I am too expensive. However they will go to the GAP and buy cheap crappy leather made in some sweat shop and pay twice the price. Then it will either fall apart or crack and they just wasted $600. on a crap vest. Randi-Lee

I too should buy shares in TLF, I own enough of that place. I then too can retire and live in the lap of luxury for five minutes. Randi-Lee

Very nice Green Man Bag. Now I will explain the Green Man. He is known by many names because of the cultures but more so in areas of England, Wales, Ireland he is the lord of the forest and also will contain many aspects as Cernunnos lord of the forest creatures. He is also Pan, the Greek God of the Forest.

Well Cheryl, Great job. Up here conchos of leather have two slits in them, no good. That is why I thought you had made them and very perfectly too. The horse eye is very perfect and I am even thinking of ordering some. I love them. Those are not heavy so you could still make them into earrings. Randi-Lee

I went to Tandy and was given many items for free, I use them as templates. Then I they gave me some things at 2 for one and picked up some leather and will have to go back probably in a week to get more leather. Let's face it I should have shares in Tandy and they know me and usually I don't walk out of there under $300. I deserve things for free. Randi-Lee

Great job, looks good. Randi-Lee

It is beautiful. That is the difference all the things I do I enjoy and wish there was more of me to do that. Are you using 4-5 oz for the eyes and it looks like you are cutting them out with a olfa cutter that has the pinked edge. Randi-Lee

Cheryl, You did such an awesome job I thought it was a stone. That looks just like the eye of a horse and it reminds me of the horses I have loved who are no longer with me and how much I loved them. Randi-Lee

Cheryl, That is me, always late to the party. Well now the only one you have to please is yourself and that is a good thing. Yes, running a business is crazy stuff but because of issues in partnerships I won't have a partner. I run about four businesses and I make all the product for three of them and it is driving me nuts. That is because it is all labour intensive. Randi-Lee

Hi Luke, We were all beginners at one time and that holster not bad for a newbie. You never waste cowhide you just use the other pieces for other things. Randi-Lee

Sweet! What kind of stone did you use for the eye? These are very adorable. Randi-Lee