Sylvia

LOL you buy the canvas and send it to me I'll make you several for twice it's value. Seriously though, I'd have to see the seam on this but it looks like a tube with draw strings on both ends. Extremely easy to make, even if it has a lapped seam.

The only thing that I have noticed about mine is that as you work the blade slides deeper into the groove which seems to make the blade have less cutting ability. I'm going to use a section of a used guitar string (Probably a low E string) and slide it into the groove to see if that will keep the blade in the right cutting position.

Ok... if this is a "double sided brochure," you'll need to do some serious moving around of things. For instance if this is the outside of the brochure, the left panel will fold to the inside and the middle and right panels are the outsides. So... Outside Right panel: Big Logo image, almost filling up the entire space. (crop and edit as needed to make it fit) Western Style Font with DCCC (spelled out). Rope border image? Middle panel: Information... address, phone, Slogan, web address, etc. One photo of eye of the horse (use a frame) and shadow. (use Sienna's eye here) Left panel: Image (1) of one product and brief description. Inside: Right panel: Photo of Tack. and part of the content you currently have on the left panel, edited as suggested earlier Middle: "eye of the horse" Blue photo here Continue with part of the content , edited. Left. Rhythm beads, more of the content. End this page with your coupon so it's easy to cut out and use. Remember these photos are going to be in black and white unless you pay for color printing. So they need to be edited so they are nice and clear, white background, etc. While you are editing.....that one photo with the Tack.... please do what you can to obscure or cut out that Soda Cup and crop it down so it is more about the tack rather than your wall. Funny you said that about right-brained folks. When I was tested they found I use both sides of my brain equally.

It's improved but still needs work. 1. Your business name and logo needs to be large. Almost the entire front 3rd of the page. (Right panel) 2. You need to completely LOSE the "I" statements. Use Double C Cowgirl C.... Like this. "Double C Cowgirl Couture is the only company in (county or city name) which...." and "At Double C Cowgirl Couture, the customer can....", etc. The idea is to repeat the name enough times that when they are done reading the brochure.... they KNOW the company name. (Remember even though you are "DCCC" the business name is more important in this case.) 3. Never ever end a sentence in a preposition. (we do it all the time in speech but it is inappropriate for a business document.) Instead of , "any design you can think of." write it as "Any design you desire." See what I mean? 4. "Why another custom horse and rider place?" Just assume this question. It doesn't need to be a title. A question like you have it forces awkward answers. So just make a series of statements or paragraphs that use DCCC (spelled out) instead of any "I" statements. 5. Use only the BEST picture of "In the eye of the Horse" To me that is the blue one. And scatter the rest of the rhythm beads photos and the Slinky Top through out the document. 6. Get your thesaurus out. Use it to help you find adjectives and adverbs that say many of the same things in a less wordy way. "Luxurious fabrics" "Dynamic Designs." "Genuine Leather" "Custom Creations" "American Made" Are you going to fold this as a traditional brochure? If so then, is this the inside panels or the outside panels? Consider making a coupon good for "One Free Custom Design Consultation"

Too wordy CC.... business documents like brochures use concise language. A brochure is an advertisement. You have 3 seconds to interest the reader, no more. So you don't want to do anything to detract from your real message which is "Here is my stuff, buy it." Re-write this with an eye on losing prepositional phrases. You also switch back and forth between "you" and "I" in a story which isn't really necessary. . Lose the story or rewrite it so it's not all fairytales and roses, and watch the grammar. Consider a list with bullets

Alaskan natives chew the leather. I don't know if African cultures do, or not but one online source says that some tribes use the Urine method. Read more here.... http://www.gateway-a...nimalskins.html

Barring buying a clicker and having a die made... you could cut your design out of acrylic or Aluminum flashing. Then trace and cut out

ha! Come to think of it some native cultures chew their leather to make it soft. I think I would request a refund and send it back. It is a cute necklace its too bad really.

Do you mean saliva or Salvia? One is spit, the other is an herb. He he he.... you said it smells like dried spit. If it smells acrid, it's probably a chemical in the tanning process. If it came from "over there" it may be have been tanned with who knows what. Some cultures even tan with urine. But to try to solve your problem, before waxing, I would wrap the necklace in permeable tissue like toilet paper and bury the entire thing in activated charcoal which you can get from fish tank supply stores. Keep it buried for about a week, then check for odors. It may, however, be a lost cause. I had a silk outfit that when warmed by body heat would give the most awful rotting fish smell. I washed that thing over and over in all kinds of solutions but was never able to get rid of that stink. It finally went in the trash.

There is a theory that it started in Sweden when they were trying to recover some of the Viking culture and identity. I've seen depictions on a piece of ancient Norse art that shows a figure with a helmet with snakes, wings, ... but most scholars believe those helmets were reserved (If they existed at all) for ceremony. No winged, or horned helmet has ever been found. Ok we've beat this dead horse to mush.... Sorry for hijacking this thread. Hope the original poster found what he or she was looking for.

The customer is the most important. I'm not sure where the idea Viking helmet's with horns came from. Perhaps it was an incarnation from some of the folks in Minnesota. Or perhaps someone saw depictions of the Vikings with Winged helmets and misunderstood what they were seeing. At any rate I loved your little guys helmet... I bet he loves it.

LOL Cute! But I hope people know that the real Vikings didn't sport horns on their helmets.

Interesting, seems I'm not the only one. It would probably help if I could actually see the blade in action so I could see the cutting edge. Perhaps one of the figure carvers will weigh in after a bit. Stacking the exacto blades is an interesting idea. Maybe this is another "Fine" use for duct tape. Thanks Gentlemen... I appreciate your thoughts.

I'm going to add to this tutorial. I'll admit I didn't read all through the responses so if this idea has been submitted. Woo hoo... if not... I have this roll of material for an old (and terrible) Denio seal-a-meal that never really worked as they said it would. Basically this stuff is an open sided "tube" , seal one side, pull the roll off the rolll and through the machine seal other side... fill, seal the end. you get the picture. Well the machine is crap. But I've found a use for the material. Instead of taping paper to your lap top. Cut off a piece of this clear plastic and allow it to static cling to the monitor. Trace with felt tip pin on the plastic. I like this better because I can see exactly the position of the figure on the leather. Also the first time I tried the paper method on this laptop I had sharpie marks on the monitor. Yikes! You'll need a fairly dull, or ball tip stylus in order to retrace onto the leather and sometimes it tears the plastic a bit... but it is so nice to really see where the design is going.

I've been temped by a couple hair blades for swivel knives but have held off because I have NO CLUE how to sharpen or strop one. So.... How exactly does one sharpen a hair blade?

Watch out Antiques Road Show..... here come Cheryl. BTW... Have you ever upholstered with stripes before? If not, I would avoid stripes. I've had experience with upholstering with striped material. What a PITA. Never again.

Chocolate brown, Burgundy, or Cordovan are the colors I would choose from. However, your red and yellow walls may not look good with Burgundy or Cordovan.... so your best choice because it's more neutral is a chocolate brown. You really should have this chair appraised before you do much to it. It looks pretty substantial it might be worth a quarter million dollars and it would suck to find out you would only get $200 because you did something to it.

Bob: Thanks! you just saved me $50 I don't really have. )

Well, eat and get to bed, woman!

Can't really tell from the scan, but does it look like this in real life? http://www.cobblersupplies.com/servlet/the-424/Professional-Heavy-Duty-Steel/Detail

I think the forked thing is a tack puller. #12 is a cobblers blade though I've seen regular leather workers use them too as trim knives. Get out some WD40 and saturate the metal... allow to soak, then scrub with some fine steel wool. Or you could try an old gardener's trick. motor oil in a bucket of sand... plunge tools in and out for several minutes until the rust is gone.

Thank you for taking time to create demand for American Made goods. I wish I could find a crafter that makes brass and nickle plated buckles at a decent price.

There is actually free help with starting a business from the Small Business Administration. There is also "SCORE" which is free and manned by retired business people. http://www.sba.gov/ http://www.score.org/ Hope that helps.