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Duane Carleton is our best known musician/songwriter in this area. He agreed to wear my strap at gigs and hand out business cars. Sorry, the pics are big so will take a bit of posts to upload them. Thanks guys for looking, c Another, rest are so big have to upload alone. And my snake strap debuted in Arlington VA last week.

LOL, I thought they were laced too. Cheryl

LOL, heard that. Only mine doesn't have a chance to do anything but stand and catch its breath.

LOL, thanks AZ. Cheryl

Uh Mike? Do you know today is June 30th?

Oh I didn't know that, like i said don't keep up with it as well as I could. I'll have to offer that as a payment method too, or do they do it automatically? Cheryl

I have an Etsy shop although I didn't keep up with it very well. Last week I updated it, added more items although I, like a former poster hate doing the tags, descriptions, etc. and I sold my first item the very next day. You can't beat a 4 month listing for 20 cents. But you will never sell anything without a Paypal account, no matter how you feel about them. I just sold a sewing machine for $150.00 and Paypal took 5 bucks off the top. That's not being ripped off, that's the price of doing business and making sales easy for your customers. I haven't had Aaron's experience but I don't like messing with mailing the payment and waiting to get the item. I wouldn't shop online if I wanted to wait two weeks for something, and I like the protection Paypal affords me. It's your choice but emotions and business are poor bed partners. Just my opinion. Cheryl

Barge all purpose cement Mike. And I glue my backs on my straps before I sew them, or the overlays, etc. You of course want to get the edges of the BACK well, but not the edge of the leather, or your bench. When it stretches out or runs over the edge I had some wadded up painters tape next to me and was trying to wipe the drips up with that and accidentally touched a sticky part of the painters tape to a drip, and it slurped the glue right up. I got this because ik saw a video of making guitar straps and the guy used 'shoe glue' so I ran a search and this is what came up. I do NOT like it so will get some of what you are talking about. Cheryl

Hi Cheryl. This is the first piece I ever antiqued, and didn't know to use a resist so it went every where but washed off :-) Well mostly. I used another coat of tan, then two coats of resolene over about 28 hours and THEN felt safe enough to try again. I used Angelus med. brown acrylic antique. I practiced on here before using it on my guitar strap I was making. I'm pretty happy with the results but it's a pain to work with. Strap is looking good too, tooled the edges to have a border to shove some antique in, LOL.

This stuff is supposed to be good, and I guess it is but it always makes a freakin mess. Accidentally tonight I found out painter's tape will pick it up from your bench and the edges of your project while it's still wet. No more wiping with a cloth and making a bigger mess. Now if there was just a solution that easy for rotary cutting......Cheryl

I'm sorry but this machine is sold. I'll have another centennial in 8 or 9 weeks after I finish up an internship with it. Cheryl

No, I don't find you to be grumpy most of the time. And you have shown me with a small Push(well kinda a big shove) I can figure out ways to compensate for things I think I can't do. Congrats on your kids, not that I'm surprised. Take after anyone you know? Cheryl

Scott and Redeye, could you please contact me again, I can't find your info. Thanks so much, Cheryl

Thanks you guys. I hope so too.

Thanks you guys, I'm still pretty hyped about it. Cheryl

Mike I know nothing from holsters, but I know your exacting detailed work. I could look at your things all day just for the stitching, and when you do the inlays I'm like a pig in, wait don't like that analogy, anyway I really enjoy all the pictures. Cheryl

Thanks guys, I know it's kinda small potatoes but it was exciting for me. So exciting I spent half the night talking about it and forgot to get it ready to mail Cheryl

Not that friends that have bought things don't have incredibly good taste, but it's just different. Someone looked at one of my pendants and said, "I really like that." I am so hyped. It was this one.

I don't understand why it works sometimes and not others. But I don't know Jack about these new machines. I got my top thread caught in a wad down in with the bobbin thread and thought I'd never get it out, but it did, and went right back to working. How can they make something so simple really when you think about it so easy to mess up? Needle goes up and down, dogs move at the same time. If it was 75 years old Kevin I could help, but not one of these. All I can offer is IF IT'S BROKEN, FIX IT Thought maybe I could get that part of it out of the way for you. Maybe Wiz will have some more ideas. c

wow Chris, nice jobs!!!! Cheryl

I am Sylvia. I've had that scene in my head for a while, it's the one I tried to draw. Well I tried to draw the actual place where Sienna is which is very similar but didn't have a picture of the exact angle I wanted on it. But the picture I downloaded came close, and the pic of Sienna came from the barn a few years ago, loved the angle of her head, and how pretty she looked just brushed and everything all where it was supposed to be :-) Now I have several memories all on one 'canvas,' I fish in that brook all the time, bass fish in a little trout stream, but you know fishing ain't about the fish. It's about the sun, and water sounds, and a happy horse munching behind you and a dog trying to jump in the water after the tadpoles, and well this IS summer to me. Captured for one moment in time when all was right with the world. I don't know if Mike knew what he might cause some of us to stretch to do, but this is better (to me) than any picture I could have taken. Thank you Sylvia. c

My mare stares, at what, I don't know. This is the landscape about summer after I antiqued it.

See? I already knew all that so I guess that's why I was thinking leather :D

Oh it isn't? I was going to use all these leather pieces and parts I have around here to do mine because I thought that's what you used. See? Can post it anyway, no one will know, LOL. (Uh what year did I plan to take time to do something that involved?)

Too true, I may forget your name if you don't slow down some. And I manage to stumble on through the post when you said tolling pigskin instead of tooling. It really is the nicest piece honestly. Now if I could get you to put your Lion applique on :-)