When I came out of rehab 25+ years ago (drugs and alcohol) also known as "The good old days"
I went to a Sears outlet to kill time. I saw this machine with a pattern book beside it.
The patterns in the book were Christmas ornaments -
I was on a leave from work and had a lot of time on my hands which I needed to fill.
The busier I was the less I had time to think of "The good old days"
I figured if I can cut these ornaments then my wife, son and daughter can paint them
and we'll put them in the tree.
That was the start of my sobriety and still going strong today - Between scrolling and
having a great support team behind me I'm still doing it today. . . Sober and drug free
Other than those stupid meds I have to take - - -Doctor's orders
When I did get back to work, my co-workers asked me what I did with my time off
I told them that I bought this saw and cut out ornaments for the tree -
They wanted to see them and when they did they wanted to buy them
One thing led to another and that's how I bought the rest of my tools
Through the sales of my scrolling work -
In my wildest dreams I never thought that scrolling would be so much fun for such a long period of time.
Then you get a computer, go online, sign up to these so called scroll saw groups only to find out that
there are other people that do what you do and they are all willing to share there knowledge.
I don't know about the rest of you but it doesn't get much better than this
Fab4