my how things have changed!!

[Dragonkort]

I have a very bad habbit that drives spike crazy lol  I always have at least 3 or 4 projects going at a time. lol which he says is why I never get anything  done.lol  but I do get every thing done eventually..i have several boxes of finished crafts in my craft room to prove it !!!  lol  any way I was transferring patterns of the few farm animal chunkys I could find for my plastic canvas barns as well as steve's dewalt arm holder to wood and my mind for what every reason decided to look back to the past when I was a kid.  I was in 11 grade  in high school back in the 70s when the government decided that girls must be allowed to take work shop, and auto macanics…  for you youngters out there that was before then girls could NOT take either of those classes. and the boys must take at least one class in home ec  in order to graduate.  Now this did not go over well with the wood or auto shop teachers, or the home ec teachers.....lol change can be hard to accept. lol well anyway while I was transferi;ng my patterns like I said I remembered my first wood shop class.  I grew up in a very small village...so there were only about 5 of us in wood shop that first year after the law was past. and the shop teachers weren't sure of what to do with us I guess because we were not allowed to use any of the power tools!!! lol What did we get to do?  well we were allowed to look at the patterns and we were allowed to put them on the wood,  but after that we had to give our wood or plastic to the boys to cut out and sand. lol then we were allowed to glue our projects together with the boys help of course and after that we were allowed to paint our projects  after which we had to once again give our projects to the boys so they could put the finish on them lol  I never quite understand why we couldn't use the finish though....did they think we were going to drink it or something!!! lol I often wounder what my old woodshop teacher would think now if he knew I have a woodshop with more power tools then he had in his class!  lol and I use them all lol  there are other things that have changed since I was young, when I was in elementary school girls could not wear paints except under our dress's to keep our legs warm when we had to be outside for recess....by the time I got into jouiner high we were allowed to wear pants to school but they had to be dress pants. lol it was not until I was in high school were we allowed to wear jeans...and that's all any of us would wear  lol  I don't think I ever saw a girl in a dress through out my high school years. lol   Another thing that changed was my father. when I first moved into the trailer with my girls dad would often come out to do mant;iance on my car.   When  he was showing me how to check the oil in my car he asked me how I could be as old as I was and NOT know how to at the very least check the oil?  He didn't have anything to say after I told him because when ever he was working on the cars and I tried to watch and learn he would always tell me to go help your mother!!!  lol unlike when my little sister was born , I m 10 years older then she is.. who he did allow to help him when he was working on cars lol There are a  lot of things that have changed over years,,,,,some for the better and some for the worse.... but change will always come in one way or another weather we like it or not. lol 

[amazingkevin]

Amazing how things change,yes indeed! I was enthralled with tooth and nail reading your heart warming discryptive post. I,d probable do better working like you on 3 or more projects at a time! That gives me more time to think about changes to make it just right in my eyes. One change that fascinated me growing up was finding out ethnic women eat hot peppers!!! I love hot peppers !!! I would have never thought a woman would mess with them at all,lol

[Dragonkort]

funny thing about the hot peppers....my sister in law is Mexican and she can't stand hot peppers.... now me on the other hand am from irish decent and when I was younger I put hot peppers in or on most everything I made!!! lol you would sweat while eating my chili lol my poor kids couldn't understand why when they ate at other peoples houses the food was sort of bland lol But I have paid a price for all my hot seasoning of foods,  I can no longer eat any thing that is spicy...even my tacos and chili have to be mild or regular these days.  I have meds I have to take to just to be able to eat normal foods now. but I do still have to sublament my diet with low fatmot foods...which I sometimes change just a little bit here and there while keeping it fatmot. lol  as far as doing more than one project at a time....iv spent most of my life muliti tasking so I just don't fee right unless im doing several things at a time. lol  but onlyl with my wood work do I do several projects at a time...… I have several things in various stages of work. lol but the crafts I do in my chair like plastic canvas and crochet I usuly do just one project at a time. like right now im making 2 plastic canvas dragon coasters. one for me ( I collect dragons ) and one for the finished craft boxes. lol I wish I could find a sight like this one to show off some of my other craft projects lol iv missed not being able to show any one my stuff since mom died,  but like I said everything changes  and as 7 of 9 says on star trek voyger… I will adapt!! lol

[amazingkevin]

If I'm not sweating it wasn't hot enough and I always have a fire extinguisher on the table when I eat, lol. I only did one craft show, Nobody sold anything as it wasn't advertised and at a recreational park free. I sold $190.00 and mostly to the other vendors there. It was my only show. The lady next to me at the show loved puzzles so I let her do all I had displayed.  Had a good time seeing others there with their crafts. I put 6 ghost peppers raw on scrambled eggs when I ate eggs, I loved it while I was eating it but always regret it. But that's part of it! Don't start about multi tasking. Every-time I set out to do something 10 other things distract me and I forget where I  was headed in the first place! lol. Crocheting I  guess you need to keep the yarn the same tension all the way thu start to finish???  P.S. my favorite pepper is Habanero, Always burns!!!

[Dragonkort]

lol well I hope your gut counties to to let you eat the hot foods you like so much!! when I was with my ex 30 some odd years ago he would take my stuff to craft shows and he  always came home with between 300 and 500 dollars.  He said we got so much busness because we had such a vrity of things to sell. most venders only had one type of crafting....where as we had the wood, croched, sewed weaved and plastic canvas things. lol  our booth was almost a craft show all by its self. lol  I haven't been to any craft shows myself.....but I did at one time sell things on ebay. depending on how things go I might start selling things on liine again now sure weather ebay or esty I think there the places where people sell there crafts.  but im not going to try t figure that out just yet and yes in crocheting you do have to sort of keep the tension the same through out the project. lol most people crochet at the same tension for everything they make. but since all people crochet at different tensions the same project might not look the same or be the same size. that's why in each pattern theres a gage check in the patter. they tell you what yarn to use, what sized hook and then it tells you so many stitches and so  many rows should be so many inches long and so many inches high. that way you can change your yarn type or hook size to get the right out come. its very nessary when making cloths but you don't really have to pay to much attention to it when making toys and decorations. lol there now you know more about crotching then you ever wanted to know!! lol