Vintaj 6-Piece French Ear Wires for Earrings, 20 by 10mm

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I'm a fan of most of the Vintaj product line and enjoy making customized jewelry from their extensive line of charms, filigree, and findings. They use a variety of beautiful metals in their components -natural brass, copper, pewter, and black art deco (with pewter interior). I particularly like the natural brass...it adds an earthy touch to jewelry. Vintaj natural brass is a solid brass made up of 85% copper and 15% zinc.

Vintaj has several size and style options for ear wires for making earrings. I prefer these smaller French Ear Wires, though, because they allow the design of your earring to begin closer to your ear rather than dropping it lower. You can still end up with finished earrings that have a significant "drop" to them...but the beads, filigree, crystals, etc. all start up closer to where the wire leaves your pierced ear.

So many interesting and beautiful pieces of jewelry can be made by using various components of the Vintaj product line. I've found a lot of finished pieces on the Vintaj website that serve as inspiration. There are also a number of YouTube videos on different techniques to be found if you need help with ideas.

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Cricut Textured Cardstock, 12-Inch by 24-Inch, Candy Shop

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List Price: $34.53
Sale Price: $28.01
Today's Bonus: 19% Off

I purchased this for my new Cricut. It gets the job done. Honestly, I did not like the texture pattern at all. This is the same thickness as your typical card stock. Due to the Cricut brand name, t

It was more expensive. I don't feel it's worth the extra price and next time I will stick to non-brand name card stock.

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Badger Air-Brush Company Ultra Fine Tip for Renegade Series

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This along with the companion needle were exactly what I was looking for. I had dropped this little piece down the drain of my sink unfortunately and was cringing at the thought of how much this would cost me to replace. While this isn't cheap for such a tiny piece, it is a critical piece of the airbrush and I was happy to have it at the time. If you need one of these, you know you need it. Otherwise you probably have no need for it.

Update: Since getting this I found the combe kit for this airbrush that includes this piece and a new needle for not much more here on amazon. I think in the future I would do that instead of this one piece.

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Spellbinders S4-267 Shapeabilities Nested Apples Die Template

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List Price: $19.99
Sale Price: $17.37
Today's Bonus: 13% Off

I love these apples! They have been perfect for teacher-gift projects. As with all spellbinders dies, they cut beautifully! Clean and smooth edges. I am happy to have these in my collection.

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Badger Air-Brush Company Fine Conversion for Renegade Series

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Outstanding deal! I was searching for the parts for my airbrush by themselves and ran across the combo set with an a great price. They arrived quickly too.

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24 Half Round Hollow Eyeballs fit into mask skull- Halloween

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Excellent collection of eyes for building Halloween props. Overall given the relatively low price these are amazing quality, they are not going to fool anyone when examined closely however they are more then sufficient for prop building.

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Brother CE-4000 Computerized Sewing Machine w/ LCD Screen

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This is a pretty nice machine, especially for $150 bucks. It's pretty fast but not too fast and you can adjust your speed easy. It comes with a very useful guide on how to do everything from threading it to making a bobbin to making a buttonhole. My major problem with it is that it can be kind of a drama queen about the bobbin and if you don't make it exactly right then the machine's tension goes all out of wack and you have to make the bobbin again. Most machines are like that though, so whatever. It has some nice stitch functions and can do two needle. For what you're paying you're getting a good deal. It's lasted me for around eight months without any problems and I don't doubt it will last for several more years at least if not more.

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Artistic Dress Form, Medium

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List Price: $149.00
Sale Price: $129.00
Today's Bonus: 13% Off

Much larger than I was anticipating and very poorly made. Flimsy and cheap; will not hold consistent measurements. Do not foresee using this dress form as much as I had hoped

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Brother(R) VX1435 Mechanical Sewing Machine

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I got this machine a year ago as a beginning sewer. I really loved it and was able to learn and make many things with it. I discovered and confirmed that sewing was going to be my 'thing'. I did not want my husband buying anything too expensive or fancy just in case I ended up not liking to sew.

Its a basic model and I don't need all of the fancy extras anyway. But now a year later, as my sewing confidence is growing and I am moving on to try new things, the machine stopped working right. There is some sort of problem with the thread. Its not the tension, I have tried everything. We have oiled and dusted it, changed thread, bobbins and fabric. The manual is terrible and not very helpful. The machine still runs but after a few stitches, the thread either breaks or comes out.

It may be a simple problem to fix but not something we can figure out. Since my husband got it for so cheap (and even on sale) he decided to get me a new one instead of paying to have this machine repaired.

We got a Husqvarna Emerald for $299. (a basic model) There is no comparison in how it runs its sturdier and even though its a basic model it has many nice extra features and the manual is great.

Having said that, there is no way that one year ago I'd have wanted a $300 machine not knowing if I would like sewing or not.

The Brother worked great and was easy to learn on, I just think it should have lasted longer than a year. 3 Months ago I probably would have given this 5 stars. Thats how happy I was with it until I started having these frustrating problems. (and an added note...a Husqvarna never needs oiling! How about that?)

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50 SETS - OPEN RING PRONG NO SEW SNAP FASTENERS (200 Pieces)

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I bought these to use with that little blue Dritz snap press that you pound with a hammer. I had previously been buying the Dritz refill packs, but that gets expensive after a while! Much to my delight, these snaps worked just perfectly with the snap press-they seem to be a little more lightweight than the Dritz brand snaps, but they are holding up fine to wear and tear. The other day, I put a snap in the wrong place, and I have yet to successfully pry the bugger off. These are a good value... next time, I'm buying the 100-pack!

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Clamp-on Stand Table-mount Four Airbrush Holder Station

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The product's box doesn't keep the parts of this stand together during shipping. The upper cradle assembly easily separates from the plastic base, and the two lower cradles are friction-fitted into the base. The steel clamp slides out of the base. When you open the product box, all of the components will be loose in the box, and therefore, you might end up with a beat-up stand like I did. Mine came with a slightly bent clamp, and some of the rubber coating on the upper cradle was torn.

With the aid of an adjustable wrench, I had the clamp straightened out and the stand mounted on my table.

The base has a grippy rubber bottom; once clamped, it doesn't budge. Unfortunately, the upper cradle assembly just slides loosely into the base, so if you're grabbing one of your airbrushes from the cradle assembly, your second airbrush will be jostled, and therefore, you might spill some paint.

The upper cradles will hold any type of airbrush, including side-feed airbrushes, like my Badger 100IL. The lower two cradles only hold gravity-feed or bottom-feed airbrushes. I pulled out the lower cradles because they actually get in the way of the hoses for the airbrushes mounted up top, and there's too much risk of a hose knocking or even pulling out an airbrush out of a lower cradle.

The bracket for the regulator is sized for the standard regulator/water-trap that seems to be sold under various brand-names -Badger, Paasche, Airbrush Depot, Master Airbrush, etc. If your regulator is missing the panel nut required to mount it in this holder's bracket, then search for "Interstate Pneumatics WP1130PN Panel Mount Nut for Regulator W1130" here on Amazon.

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Magcraft NSN0641 1/2-Inch by 1/4-Inch Rare Earth Disc Magnets

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I bought these cylidrical, 1/2" x 1/4" neodymium magnets hoping to use them as very strong refrigerator magnets, since their basic shape is not 'flat' but they have some vertical height to them. (I've tried "Magnutz" designed for fridges, but they're a bit weaker than I'd like; those contain much smaller neodymium magnets.)

I found these magnets quite strong, well-made. I don't anticipate their chipping with use, for example; I suspect they've got a stainless steel covering, although the magcraft website doesn't specify. As a fridge magnet, these are a tad TOO strong if you use them as is; they're rather difficult to get off the metal surface. E.g. if a bunch of them stick together in a stack, I can't pull them apart directly, but have to laterally slide one off the other. (Note, the description of approx. 10 lbs pulling weight each magnet seems approximately correct. Gotta get a good grip to get one of these off the fridge; I can do it, my wife can't quite.)

To make perfect extra-strong refrigerator or workplace magnets out of these, all you need to do is find some sort of container for them that you can use to "grab" the magnet. E.g. glue one of these magnets to the bottom of the tiny scoops that come with baby formula powder... or, I found it easy to sew a magnet inside a piece of 2" square cloth, making a tiny sack that works perfectly as an extremely -extremely! strong refrigerator magnet, easy to grab & use. (Hey, someone could do some business making these...)

Whether or not the magnets fit my particular purpose: you should know that these magnets are quite strong, certainly well made, beautiful little items, seem to be designed to take a good beating.

They are certainly too strong to give a kid to play with; very little creative capacity, it seems, when they're this strong. And, they are strong enough to magnetize small iron objects, so watch out how you use them.

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Lee Hiller Designs General Themes - Egyptian Hieroglyphics

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List Price: $13.99
Sale Price: Price Unavailable
Today's Bonus: 29% Off

Although the colors were bright and vivid the fabric was very thin. Since I framed the quilt square it will be fine but it might not work as well for uses that require sewing or handling the square a great deal.

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100 Steel Split Rings Key Chain Connector Parts 20mm

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got these rings because i have more keys than the key maker, including a lot that are single copies that i need to lend to people for various reasons. i had planned to put one key to a ring and put them on a big clip or something similar. these rings worked fine for smaller keys, but anything that was a little thicker caused the rings to stretch and then not return to the original shape. i still have a bunch left, and learned my lesson, will pay a bit more for nicer ones next time.

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Janome 6" Half Moon Applique Scissor

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These scissors work great. They are sharp and let you get very close to the applique without cutting the threads! Very pleased with this purchase and would recommend them to others.

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Spellbinders S4-236 Borderabilities Petite Baby Border Die

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List Price: $19.99
Sale Price: $13.89
Today's Bonus: 31% Off

The other reviewer made a cute card using this template and, as she says in her review, posted it above. Amazon is in the process of removing 100% of customer uploaded images even from our profile page.

Here's the Help Forum thread where we learned about customer images disappearing:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/forums/ref=cm_cd_rvt_np?ie=UTF8&cdForum=Fx2NFGOONPZEXIP&cdPage=7&cdThread=Tx2YR5LNIBXTE84#CustomerDiscussionsNew

Here's a thread in the Top Reviewers forum about the images being removed:

http://www.amazon.com/forum/top%20reviewers/ref=cm_cd_rvt_np?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx2Z5LRXMSUDQH2&cdPage=4&cdThread=Tx26I08L5Q6KXHX#CustomerDiscussionsNew

This is Amazon's link to leave customer feedback about all our images being deleted soon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/html-forms-controller/social-images-feedback

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Janome DC1050 Computerized Sewing Machine

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I have not been using this machine long, but I already love it. At first when I tried it I had trouble with the machine feeding itself the material. I was used to having to really guide the material along with my old machine. This machine does not like it if you try to push the material into it. All you have to do is put the material in and put the foot down and start to go. The machine does the rest. I am working on very delicate material and this machine just glides along with no problems.

Also hemmed up a pair of jeans with one the decorative stitches which was a blast. So far no problems with the machine. My husband commented first thing about how quiet it is.

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