1574 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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I believe this will be the last of the trees I post in this ongoing series that I’ve already identified. I think it’ll be more fun for me and anyone else following along to go on the hunt for a tree’s name and species along with me than for me to simply post an encyclopedic entry of each tree. I didn’t take proper pics of the 2 or 3 others I’ve identified either, so they’re not worth posting yet anyway. I do intend to follow up identifications with more abo...
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199 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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Part of what I love most about my job is that I get to ‘play’ and make cool things. While there are certainly many other requirements of running a business and keeping things in order, I still feel very fortunate for being able to call what I do a ‘job.’
Yesterday I worked on another new project. I showed you all a picture of one of the new ornaments that was in the set that I was creating, but that was only part of it. While the word ornaments were nice, I though...
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1338 days ago
by Lisa Chan |
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Just taking a small break from the work day.
Today, I am researching the shape and form of Russian Spindles. I made a cursory spindle last night.
I had never spun with a supported spindle that didn’t have a hook at the top. It was frustrating and my spindle didn’t seem to get much twist going… then I realized that perhaps it had something to do with the shape itself. Looked into it and discovered I left quite a bit of extra wood on that thing.
Examining the spindles...
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2067 days ago
by Mark A. DeCou |
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I’ve had a fun week. I’m building a chair to match the Tilt Front Desk that I previously posted, and blogged about. If you want to read about the desk, the posting link is given at the bottom of this blog.
The desk chair is designed to fit the customer’s kitchen, as the desk is being placed in the kitchen area. She loves to cook, and hopes to move her laptop computer station to the kitchen where she can capture her thoughts on her cooking blog, and do more writing.
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2161 days ago
by frank |
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Planes of Architect
….as from my place of sitting, i looked at you to aspire your eye, till in the moment of thought-full re-mitting, your gazing zest of life came to un-der-lie….
—-what gives this form before me aspect, twas not just yesterday you reached for heavens sky, and now we meet on different planes of architect, even then we bi-sected by in-ter-sect with questions of the how and why….
—-phantoms of a period that time has far-gotten, where crowds o...
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151 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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We have all heard the saying “Good things take time.” As I work on these new ornaments, I am finding that statement to be true. While in my mind I start out thinking that they could all be done in a day, in reality, they cannot. I still have too many ideas jumbled up in my head and I have to do all I can not to be overwhelmed by them. There are only so many directions that I can think of at once without being completely stopped from overload.
I found that for me the best th...
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589 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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It seems that I am out of the gate quite early this morning. I wouldn’t think I would have been because I was simply exhausted last night and could barely keep my eyes open. But I awoke today well before 5 am and it was one of those times when there was no point in staying in bed anymore and I figure I may as well get something done and take advantage of the extra time. So here I am.
I don’t remember having much difficulty adjusting to time changes before. Perhaps I am gett...
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109 days ago
by AJM |
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Finland is famous for woods and my mother in law has a small one 13.5 hectare and her brother has about 20 hectares.
I was helping take some trees for fire wood and I noticed some brown dots in the birch. I know this does not make it the much fabled curly birch I would like to get for knife handles. But for free and saving it from the fire.Well it makes me feel happy and in 8 months time it could quite well be used for some handles.It is now split and off the floor and in the barn t...
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709 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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For a rainy day, I didn’t do too badly. In fact, I got a lot accomplished yesterday. It was one of those good days where everything flowed along nicely and even though I was in several different directions, things seemed to move right along and by the end of the day, I made a nice sized dent in what I wanted to do.
I got 20 sets of the little skating pond cut. Psychologically that was a huge boost. Just seeing the little figures pile up so quickly (in only a couple of hours) made ...
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197 days ago
by Sheila Landry (scrollgirl) |
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After quite a busy day yesterday, I am happy to say that I almost accomplished everything that I set out to do. For me, that is as good as anything. While I didn’t get my little tree changed over to Christmas yet, I did finish painting the new ornaments and charms for the pattern packet.
I had to wait to take the final pictures for the packets, and I will be doing that today. I found that the DecoArt Craft Twinkle paint (the sparkle paint) that I used on these takes a bit of time ...
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