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Aug 13, 2008
The Fairies have brought their neighbours—and they have moved into the flower gardens!
I found this sunflower this morning hanging on the old dead tree in one of the flower beds.
Wood: poplar
Door Handle: an earring: sunflower with sunglasses on.
Learning Curve
Isn’t it interesting how you can trace an edge, cut out the adjoining piece of wood and they don’t match! Argh.
Got it close though; the next one will be better, I’m sure.
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19 comments so far
Lee A. Jesberger
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posted 111 days ago
Hello Ms. Debbie;
I see your cat knows they’re in there!
Nice job.
Lee
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MsDebbieP
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posted 111 days ago
haha yes, Jasmine always has to run out and get in the pictures!!! Silly cat.
Thanks Lee.
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thetimberkid
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posted 111 days ago
Great job!
Thanks for the post
Callum
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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Hi Debbie!
I like it!
It looks like you’ve taken a first step into the realm of carving.
The only fault I can see is, the flower stem is a little bit hefty.<;O)
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roman
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posted 111 days ago
I would be proud to have that in my garden
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MsDebbieP
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haha yes Dick.. the stem is a little large.
I forgot that I was going to find a branch and add to the flower before I took the pic.. darn. Oh well.
Thanks :D :D
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Thor
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posted 110 days ago
I love the picture of the cat looking up at it.
Fun piece for your wonderful yard.
Christina
scottb
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this one’s great. My favorite of the bunch so far.
did you think they used gorilla glue to attach the earring? <- the fairies contest entry????
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SteveKorz
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posted 110 days ago
This one is terrific!...
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Dusty56
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you are so inventive and artistic : ) wonderful job !
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TedM
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Great carving! I wonder if the fairies used your new tools? :)
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Hersh
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That’s a bright and cheery sunflower. Great job.
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john
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posted 110 days ago
Maybe you can make me a 100 cat doors .
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MsDebbieP
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Ted; No, they didn’t use the new tools…. I didn’t have them out of the package yet. I can’t wait to see the next sunflower door—it will definitely be made with the new tools and then I can see the difference!
John: 100 hahaha that’s funny. You sure you ONLY have 100 cats/??
Christina: yah, that cat picture is great. She just popped into the camera range and looked up as I was taking the picture—totally luck on that picture. But definitely great!! Maybe she heard the fairies.
Scott: this is your favourite?? It’s definitely sunny but there’s lots of improvements to be made on the next one for sure.
Thanks everyone :)
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jeanmarc
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posted 110 days ago
Great job!
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MsDebbieP
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thank you Jeanmarc :)
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Rustic
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Beautiful job
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SawDustnSplinters
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posted 109 days ago
Nice work of art….I paid a guy to get the tall grass and weeds around my shop the other day, there was one wild sunflower on the side of my shop already 4 feet tall growing out of roadbase and gravel, I told him to leave it there..
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MsDebbieP
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posted 109 days ago
4 feet tall.. yah that’s a keeper! And in gravel. They are a determined flower, aren’t they!
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