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Hello Minnelli

darksasami — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:01:54 -0800

How can I make a poster out of a coloring book page? So I've got a picture that I very much want to have on my wall, because clearly I have no taste. What I have is very simple, thick line art on crappy coloring book paper, at about 24x18 inches. What I want is a pretty, colorful poster using the original line art, suitable for framing and for making my house that much more tacky. How do I get from point A to point B?

Here are the obstacles I know about:

I never learned to color between the lines, so I would need someone to produce a color image for me, and I don't know anyone with that skillset.
It's a copyrighted image, and although this would be strictly for my personal use, that might make whoever I'm working with balk. That includes either whoever turns the line art into the image or the shop that prints the print.
It would be neat, though not strictly necessary, to add embellishment around it--background, borders, whatever. Ideally, I think I'd want to end up with something any Red Robin would be eager to have on its walls. I don't know how to find an artist who could do such things.
Even if I were to enlist an actual artist, I'm half convinced that they'd be insulted at what I was asking for.
I have no idea what getting a poster or print or whatever created entails, even if I had a finished image to work with.

Here's a variant (in hideous colors) of the image I'm after, just so you understand how refined a sense of artistic merit I have.

Can someone with experience in these kinds of things help get me started?

Oodles of Doodles

Rora — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:42:48 -0800

Where can I find Oodles of Doodles colouring pages or something similar? About 15-20 years ago, a friend of mine enjoyed a product called Oodles of Doodles. They were large, poster-sized colouring pages with a lot of small, detailed shapes to fill in. Google and eBay don't turn up the right products. Do any MeFites know of a similar product so I can surprise my friend? He's looking for lots of detail and on a large sheet, not in a book. Purchasable in Canada or online preferred. Thank you!

How do I dye my over-processed hair myself?

[insert clever name here] — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:46:01 -0800

I'm looking to start dying my hair at home. I'm considering semi/demi-permanent options and need more advice on what to choose. Previously having it done at a stylist. Color treated, previously bleached/highlighted, going-grey hair. Long time ago, I always dyed my hair with whatever box colors I could get ahold of. Some crazy colors, some more normal ones. About a year and a half ago, I decided I wanted to go blond (from unnatural reds - though my natural color is a medium ash brown - I think, its been a while.) The blond seemed to do a number on my hair and I got sick of the roots and the cost of the upkeep. So I had my hair stylist dye it to a caramel brown color, which she did the last two times I had it done. I was thinking I could save some cash by going back to dying it myself.

The reason I was thinking of going semi-permanent is that its less harsh on my hair, and I could do it more often to deal with the roots and the grey hairs. I hate the faded look my hair gets after a few weeks anyway, so I think with a semi-permanent I can do it more often. I'm not sure about the grey coverage though. Some people say semi-permanents work well, some say otherwise.

I've been looking at Clairol Natural Instinct, but also checked Makeup Alley and L'Oreal Color Gems sounds interesting and has a higher rating. But I'm nervous about the lack of "for dummies" box/packaging.

My hair is definitely overprocessed, both from the bleaching and because I usually style with a blow dryer and/or flat iron (if i don't, it's impossible to manage). I wash it every other day-ish, though I often rinse it every day. My hair is medium/short, but I'm trying to grow it out to at least shoulder length.

Custom Coloring Book Help

burnmp3s — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:24:54 -0800

How should I print and bind a custom coloring book? I ran a bunch of my photos and other material through some photoshop filters to make black & white coloring book pages out of them. I want to put these together into a coloring book for my niece.

How should I go about printing and binding this into a coloring book? I want it to look and feel as much like a real coloring book as possible, so the paper should be heavy (hard to rip) and not glossy. The binding should be child-safe and shouldn't be easy to tear apart.

I have an inkjet printer if that helps. Also, I would only need to make one copy of the book.

BLUE #1 makes for blue #2

carsonb — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:19:50 -0800

Is there a supplement or other item I can ingest with breakfast that will help me digest BLUE #1? I love my sweetened breakfast cereals (Cap'n Crunch w/ Crunchberries and Fruit Loops) but pooping bright blue or green later in the day honestly freaks me out. After some empirical eating I think I've narrowed down the blue poop culprit to the common cereal ingredient BLUE #1. What can I eat with my morning milk-filled bowl of delicious, sweet cereal that will keep my poop a 'normal' color and my delicate sensibilities intact come midday evacuation?

I know this sounds ridiculous, but I have to approach such a weird and intimate neurosis with a bit of humor. Please just answer the question, and if you need to address my querying style I have email or there's MetaTalk.

Green food coloring makes Hulk angry!

gregvr — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:03:27 -0800

My 3 year old just dumped green food coloring all over our dining room... HELP! So, yep, we have green food coloring all over the dining room now, all over my son, all over his clothes, all over the cherry table, and the rug.

What should we do? How can we get this out? Will it stain the wood?

fading jeans

funambulist — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:35:33 -0800

How do I fade the colour only on an area of a pair of jeans? I removed an embroidery pattern from a pair of denim jeans, but now that spot that was covered by the stitching is darker than the rest of the fabric, so the shape of the pattern still stands out.

How do I fix this? Any special products that I can apply only in that area?

Preferably something cheap, as the jeans themselves were less than the price of a CD (bought them at a street market) so I'm not going to go nuts about it, but I like the fit so I'd really like to be able to wear them without that ugly "stain" where the pattern was.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

(I searched for methods of fading jeans but only found some instructions on how to fade an entire pair of jeans in the washing machine, or using tie-dye methods for creating patterns, which is not what I'm looking for...)