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PZ850- Angela Top Black- 95% Viscose 5% Elastane Top. Mocha Print Babydoll Top with solid black tie back. Also available in Mocha Print. Available in sizes S-XL
Yaay, my newest doll, she's so fierce! Getting her probaply tomorrow or the day after. Can't wait to fix her hair :D
Photo taken at the top of The Shard - brilliant sunshine creating shadows & reflections. (The angle of the photo is correct - as the sides of the building slope, the metal structures between the glass panels are not vertical.)
Derby Day, Epsom Downs, 5th June 2010. The day I fell in love with top hats. (And even from this unlikely angle, the eyebrows continue to impress.)
The Mos Eisley Cantina including the (almost) unaltered LEGO sets 4501 and 75052. You can lift of the roof to have a look inside. Only change is that I had to get rid oh some hinges from 75052. 4501 is not changed.
Sailboat top size 3 (lengthened) for Miss Lucy.
This top has been in the planning for quite some time - made with some special Kokka fabric from Millie, and buttons from Claire. The spot is a no name from my stash. Thank you both :-)
The inspiration for this top actually came from here - www.flickr.com/photos/motherof5/5125004368/in/set-7215762... - this is my favourite Sailboat top!
Pattern/instructions: Alabama Studio Sewing + Design by Natalie Chanin
Fabric: old jersey Batman sheets
The book recommends ending the bodice at 5" from the center back and attaching a 15" ruffle. I cut my bodice to about 6.5" at the center back to properly cover my bustline, and my ruffle was about 17" because I like my tops to be a bit longer.
This is like, the most comfortable top in the world, and I don't even care how many people ask me if I'm pregnant.
This spinning top is a quickie project anyone with a few tools and a little time could do in the home shop. I used a Taig lathe for 99% of the work, but a similar project could be done with a drill press and files. (It might even look better!)
The trick to making a top is that everything must Must MUST be co-axial. If you get something off-axis, the top wobbles. It's as simple as that.
To get things symmetric, I chucked some 1/8" brass rod in a collet chuck and cleaned up each end. A 1" diameter piece of Delrin was drilled through undersize, and the rod was pressed in. The whole thing went back in the collet chuck, and a bearing with a 1/8" ID was chucked up in the tailstock, and brought in to support the outboard end. The top was then turned down with a parting tool until everything more or less looked the way I wanted it. No real care was taken to hit exact diameters, but I did step the cuts by 0.050" with an 0.060" wide tool.
This top easily spins for over a minute. Makes a great present for a kid, young or old.
Of course there's more to tops than this. In essence they're finger-driven flywheels, so all the same calculations that can be used on flywheels can be used on tops as well. If you're after maximum efficiency, this top isn't it. Ever wonder why flywheels on steam engines were spoked? There's a critical point in the kinetic energy curve for a flywheel inside which having extra mass does you no good. You really want the mass out on the rim. Which is exactly the opposite of where the mass is on this one.
One of the most advanced spinning tops I've ever seen was the Quark, developed by Jim Lewis, the guy who started www.emachineshop.com - It had an outer rim made of brass, tungsten, or gold, and an inner core made of Delrin. If I remember right they had tungsten carbide tips. The real innovation with their top was that you could tune it for balance using weights inserted into pockets underneath the rim. Balancing was done using a laser pointer, which let you take out all the wobble in the top. They would easily spin for fifteen minutes or more.
They're still being made, and sold by Quirkle: www.quirkle.com/top/index.htm
They're clearly better than the one I made, but something tells me theirs took a lot longer to make.
Have fun in the shop!
I was about to tell Black Telephone that one of my first squircles was a milk bottle top but when I searched it turned out to be a milk bottle. I can't believe I've never posted a foil milk bottle top squircle. Well here it is, photographed on 27 Feb 2005, fifteen days after I joined flickr.
pattern ; top down garter stitch yoke vest
(short row version) arranged into doubled cardigan with lace border
size ; 3-6 months? finished width about 24cm
yarn ; Monterosa Baby ( 2 strands held together )
520m/100g / 100% cotton / made in italy
/ shade 6 lot 0020 about 130gram
needle ; 3.3mm (japanese no.4)
tension ; 27 sts x 38 rows ?
date ; from 20th April to May 29th , 2008
1. Santorini, 2. Sunset in Santorini (2013).-, 3. Adiós Verano, 4. Sunset in Santorini (3), 5. Fire, Air, Earth and Water.-, 6. La Niebla.-, 7. Fonts de Montjuic. Barcelona (3), 8. Santorini colors.-, 9. Playa de los Muertos (4).-, 10. Temple of Poseidon.-, 11. Sunset in Santorini (2).-, 12. Santorini goodbye, 13. Summer is here, 14. Barcelona at night.-, 15. Blue & White.-, 16. Bajo el sol.-
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Esse esmalte faz parte de uma coleção antiguinha, e tava pegando poeira por aqui (além de ter ficado mega decantado, com esse fundo vermelho o_O e vejam, ainda está na validade).
A cor não tá muito fiel; ele é um pouco mais acinzentado.
Passei esse esmalte e tive uma surpresa ao descobrir que é jelly. =O
Tipo... eu ODEIO jelly =_=. Nunca vou conseguir passar direito, sempre mancha muito e as cores ficam ~variando de uma unha pra outra.
Tá, até que esse se manteve razoavelmente uniforme, mas não consegui impedir que manchasse, mesmo com 3 camadas.
A vantagem é que fica um brilho bem bonito!
James Walker African American Fashion Show Charming Model in Lilac Top Posing for a Portrait Photoshoot at a Sports Hall in Philadelphia B&W April 1997
Finally getting being able to walk to the waterfront again. Publishing the revised edition of my memoir/neuroscience book Concussion Is Brain Injury. Special moments with my mother and parents. Being taken to the ROM and getting to see the only preserved Blue Whale heart AND taking photos again.
All the style in the 19th Century this hat waits patiently on the hatrack in a restaurant in Island Falls, Maine.