Dragonkort

another fantastic and beautiful peice!! something i could only dream of doing

that is simply beautiful

lol now see here who said i was wicked! lol no i havnet got them h sollowed out just yet.....i do have one in the grage im hoping i can eventuly get spike to cut it in half for me so i can start making a couple planters out of them but first i have to make a thing to hold the log to keep it from moving when we cut it in half.... i saw a picture of a thing that the log sits in so it dosnt move when cutting it in half but unfrountly it didnt have a pattern....and i dont really do to good if i dont have a pattern of some kind....once we figure out how to cut the log in half i will start hollowing them out...i did find a websight that told how to do that....basicaly you take your drill and a hole bit and then make several drill holes in the log and after that you take your chisles and a hammor and us those to sort of cut out those areas and just keep doing that until the log is eventuly hollowed out. then sand the inside to make it smooth...if im lucky my small sander will fit inside....but it could take a long time befor spike gets around to cutting the log in half...im half thinking about waiting for him to go somewhere and then getting the chain saw out and trying to cut it in half myself....but iv never used a chain saw before so im searching on line to see if i can find a pattern for the thing i saw the logs resting in on that one sight....so far iv found lots of pictures of logs sitting in the support thing but no pattern for how to make it. grrrr but at least he got my miter saw out and i was able to cut some disks from some of the branches i have here in the wood shop. im also looking through my patterns and on line for a cradle to make for a doll. believe it or not but i still have one of my dolls ( my favorite one) from when i was a little girl...shes old and hair is all gone....and somewhere along the way she lost her legs and feet and she has little holes in her face where my brothers used her as a target for throughing darts but shes still here and i still love her dearly lol now that the kids are all gone i dont have to keep her locked in the bedroom lol so shes going to get a cradle to lie in here in the livingroom with the little doll i found for her and i made a nightgown for her doll with the same materal dollys night gown is made out of and the crocheted bottles i made for her, one white for milk and one orange for orange juce lol i was going to keep her in the bedroom because at 62 im a little old for dolls but spike said no... its our house and he dosnt care what people visiting might think lol just one of the many reasons i love him so much!! lol how many men would be so understanding about theres womans old doll!!

its been awhile since i was last on, not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing since i seem to have a problem staying on topic but i have not been idle.... im very busy working on all my crafts as christmas is comming ever closer and even after all these years and my telling people it takes time to make things i still have people asking if i can make this or that gift for them. lol at this point im having to tell people i will try to get there gift done on time but no promises....its first come first serve. spike says im just to nice espicaly since im making everything for free....i dont think you can ever be to nice though and after having to take a 2 year break from crafting this is a good way to get back into the swing of things and work my way up to more complex things.. any way here are the wood projects im working on right now.... the stack of people cut outs are going to be paper dolls what you do is cut out the bodies with heavy cardboard or ....i did wood and then you cut out the body ,hair and other facial featers out of felt and glue that to the wood making the paper dolls stronger so they will last longer.. then you cut out the cloths in felt and use velcrow or snaps on the cloths and the dolls to attatch the cloths to the body so you can change the cloths just like with regular paper dolls....i always loved playing with paper dolls but eventualy after so much play paper tends to tear. this way they dont. i have several different paper doll patterns to make from felt and cloth and such. i like this one the best. dont know if you would want to see the finished project since everything else will be made from felt. the cut out circles are layered snakes im making... im making 2 then in front of those are the snakes faace tail mouth and such... the rest of the stuff are compound cuts im making , there just waiting for me to do the carving on them before i paint them and makig what ever i decde to make out them. now that the table is free i hope to get some carving done on my dragon house sign and some work done on my knob and fairy houses. im also working on learning how to use my cnc machine. theres a man on face book who is talking to me live on face book and teaching me how to use it... and we have the math problem figured out to....with the cnc machine you use digital caliper to make sure everything is measured excect. that will be a great help!!! i can see me using it for scrolling and maybe even some of my other crafts. he also told me about using the metric system...and making sure i use the metric system with my cnc machine as its easer...when he was explinging the numbers to me using the metric system it was actually making some sense to me so im hopeful that in time i will be able to actually use my cnc machine and then later my 3 d printer....so things are looking up. inbetween all that i managed to get in a 3 day visit with my friend from travis city. OH and im making progress with my vertial aquiume...ritia my friend whos moving in april gave me a small aquram she had in her attic and all the stuff to go with it ( i could actually use it for real fish but spike says i have enough animals lol ) so i dont have to worry about making an aquriam....although i am still going to work on trying to find a way to make one that dosnt cost to much so i can make a vertial aquiam that if people are interesting in them i could put on ebay to sell....she also giave me a layered land turtle to start me off with... but i havent figured out a way to fit land and water life in the aquirem, but thats ok as she also gave me a little plastic small animal cage which i hid in the woodshop. IF i have enough room on the table im putting the aquirem on i'll put the layered land turtle in that and put it next to the aquriam. i will just have to make a small water and food dish for it...not sure what else should go in with a land turtle but i'll look on google to see if i can get some ideas.... i already have some fish made for the aqurium will get to work on the sea turtles as soon as i can...i have a small compound cut land turtle im going to cut out and hopefuly change the feet into fins....im also going to cut one out to put in with the layered turtle my friend gave me. so although im not here much right now i am still working on the crafts when ever i can and right now i need to go make some more plarn as pastor brought me some more plastic bags...will make a point of comming on this evening to look at all your wounderful wood crafts all of you are an insperation for me and give me the courage to fight the anxity when i try to do more complex things with my scrolling....oh and spike set up my miter? saw the other day so i can start sliceing my tree branches into disks so i can make things out of them too.... i will try to keep my commets short when i look at all your wounderful things!! not sure how well that will go considering how long this post is but i will try

i'll have to see if i can find a pattern like that and give it a try

lol yes jumping from one project to another is the Dragonkort way. lol drives spike crazy but at 62 i dont see me changing at this stage of the game. lol spike did mention the crafts are getting a bit out of hand again ...so today we started rearraniging things in order to try to get more of my stuff in my 3 rooms and out of the kitchen and living room....he does however know that the floor and tables around my chair will always be cluttered with the different crafts im working on that i can do in my chair .... and i best get at the last of my sewing done real darn soon as hes getting tired of the sewing machine in the livingroom......i'll wait a day or so after getting the sewing machine put away to get out the emboridary machine.....lol

thank you

lol both cuts look great

oh that is totaly fantastic i love it!!! could you tell me where you got the pattern? it would make a great addition to my dragon colloction

oh that is so cute!!! iv seen patterns like this but so far have never tried to do one

of course i agree with everyone else its fabulious!

simply lovely

that is totaly FANTASTIC!!! you did a GREAT job on it!!! pat yourself on the back

well im FINALLY getting somewhere with the cnc machine. a nice man on the cnc sight for my cnc machine named Alan is helping us get it set up and working.....he is such a kind careing and paticent man!!! its taken about a week but everything is finall set up and read to go... i had to get the cnc machine off my kitchen table so i could start working on my other projects , so we took this old type writers table and addapted it into a complete cnc center i can wheel around. the cnc machine on top and then all the bits and other things go in the bottom baskits... tomarrow Alan said we can start with the easle program...so im getting closer to being able to use it.... i was planning on just using patterns other people make but he said thats not as easy as it sounds...i didnt think it would be... nothing ever is lol but if we can get one pattern to work im hoping i can make files on a jump drive of every pattern i manage to make with all the information in a folder for each pattern so i can make it again....that im sure will take a long time as i will proubly need help with every pattern i do....but we will see.... pray that i learn the easle and candle programs enough to make things.... and tomarrow if i have time i will take pictures of the woodworking projects i have in progress.

lol well its not table set for woodworking or crafting....its the kitchen table. lol which means any time i change crafts i have to redo the kitchen table... spike would love it if i would put everything away after working at the table so that it would have nothing on it....his idea when your done working on a project put your stuff away and then get everything back out again when you want to work on it again... that of course never happens lol as i just tell him will im not DONE yet..which means the table is almost constently filled with one craft or another...yes we are finally making progress with the cnc machine....and most of the problems were NOT that we didnt understand what we're doing.... first we discovered that the instructions we had for wireing it were wrong... spike looked on utube to see if he could figure out what the problem was after checking and rechecking the instructions and the way he had it wired....which was totaly different then what u tube had it so he rewired it accourding to the u tube and wa la!! everything worked.... we are stalled again because they didnt put the right sized screws in the package for the clamps....so today spike will go into battle creek to get the size we need....if it werent for me i dont think spike would live in a little village as most of the time our hardwaire store dosnt have what we need and he has to drive to either lansing or battle creek to things...i remember my mom telling me its harder to learn new things as you get older...so at first i just chalked it up to that....butas time went on i was beginning to think spike and i were getting either senial or stupid in our old age its a relief to find out neither of those are happening...i will however have to find a different place to put the cnc machine once we have it working so i can use the table again when i need a table for crafting lol

hi guys, havent posted any pictures in awhile but not because im not doing anything. i have several compound cuts cut out and the dragon house sign and now a layered snake. but i cant get them finished because i have the cnc machine and 2 lap tops n the kitchen table where i do my carving and putting together of things. we have the cnc working ran into a snag today while trying to clamp the wood to the bed, the bolts they sent with my cnc machine are 2 small so spike has to go to battle creek tomarrow to get the right sized screws then i can clamp the wood down then alan will help me some more in trying to get my first project going... IF i get it all working soon and get my first cnc project done can that be posted on here to? its not really a scroll saw project... when i get use of my table again i will also get some of the stuff from my unfinished projects and finish them up...

Those look great!!!

that is totaly asome!!

great projecjts and love the tip about the glue

great work!

wounderful and fantastic

totaly fantastic!! and wow!! you have a lot of paticence

simply beautiful and love the idea of the masks

great stuff!!! your a busy boy

looks good you did great