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Arm Bracers After designing the bracers in Visio I traced them out onto my thinnest foam (2 mm) but looking back I wish I had gone a tad thicker. They held up fine but I was definitely worried throughout the night about them tearing. While her bracers look seamless in the movie I decided the easiest way to deal with the thinner bands of gold and silver at the top and bottom of the bracers was to just cut those out separately and glue them down onto the bracer.  I knew I was never going to be able to paint them w/out making a mess had I just left the bracer as one big piece. Securing them via straps and snaps was complicated.  I cut 2 slits in each bracer on either side and ran a strip of the faux leather through it and glued it down on the inside.  I reinforced the straps with strips of the 2 mm foam and attached snap buttons to the inside of the strips and on the opposite side of the bracer.  To secure them the straps go over the painted side, ...

The kitchen of my dreams...or is nightmare?? Our kitchen was actually a selling point for us when we bought the house but as the years went by and I looked at Pinterest too much I realized the kitchen was starting to get out of date and the various functional issues were starting to pile up. hen about a year ago we realized the carpet in the adjoining family room was on its last legs after suffering through a year of senior pets with bladder issues. So if we were going through the hassle of changing out the floors in the family room then maybe it was time to deal with the kitchen floor and the rest of the kitchen too. This carpet has seen WAY better days We started interviewing contractors in late summer 2017 and landed on Monova Contractors in October.  Great! We'll have a new kitchen by Christmas right? Wrong.  Next step was to work with Reico to select cabinets and counter tops, take measurements, and finalize all the little odds and ends wit the lay...