Dragonkort

lol yup.... lol a motto i have ALWAYS lived by. lol This to drives poor spike up the wall lol he often says cant you throw ANYTHING away? lol When he first came here he saw the 2 wooden tulps on the kitchen sink and couldnt understand why i was using those as nick nacks on the sink when i had a lot of other things that were so much prettyer and better made... then one day he saw plastic food storage and sandwich bags hanging on them upside down... so of course he wanted to know why. lol well so we can reuse them of course...no sense tossing them away as long as theres no holes in them they can be washed and reused and the tulips are there to dry them on.... iv made a ton of them for people who have asked for them so im not the only one who does it... i dont do it often anymore though as spike constently tells me we can afford to buy new bags....lol but thats not really the point.... its the recycling that lowers my green footprint. i save all kinds of things that drives him nutts....lol poor man

Iv been working on my wizzard fret work mostly at my saw, so decided to finish some things i have shoved in a boxs.... I love doing the compound cut patterns and im sure the rest of you do this too. I dont throw away the side pieces most of the time, i toss them into a box, and then when it gets to hot to scroll in the wood shop I grab a box of what ever needs to be finished and make myself at home at the kitchen table. lol this time i decided it was time to work with the compound cut wast wood. Now what i do is this IF on the inside of the side piecees have to many different thickness i carefuly take the peice to my saw and saw down the higher parts and then finish it with my dremal... most of the work is done with the dremal making that side flat or carved so it looks right. that way i get 3 or 4 projects from one compound cut. when there finished i make magnets out of them , or glue them to crocheted headbands, or use them for inlays or what ever comes to mind at the time lol i know im not expling this to well but the pictures will help make it clear and like i said im sure you guys do this too so you'll really understand what im trying to saywhen you see the pics ok well of course the pics arent all in order but the first 2 pics are of the little tub i throw the my compound cut waist pieces. The next 3 pictures are of the wizard pattern im cutting out...the left side is where i made the inside cuts just in case you cant tell. the next 3 are of the compound cut and waist pieces all done and painted, I have to glue the wiggle eyes on the bunnys and frogs they just have to have the finishe put on them the 3 snowmen i made out of the wast from the pencle bunny topper i got on here.... i crocheted each one a hat and scarf and im going to go see if i can find some small enough brances in that big pile of sticks and brances we have in the back yard, if i do i'll give them arms lol the last 2 pictures are of some of the peices im working on now. lol now remember i DIDNT cut all of these things out now, im just taking the ones in the box and finishing them.... now i know i can put a plastic bag over my foot so sawdust dosnt get in the toe but before i can do more work on them i have to find a way to prop up my left foot while at the kitchen table. lol same with the sawing...have to find a way to prop up my foot as they want it elevated. im sure i'll think of something!! unless of course spike has a fit about my doing woodworking with a stithed up foot. lol im glad he didnt live with me when i was younger and totaly housebound, i dont think he could have handled it. lol i had to dr myself up when ever i got hurt... or sick lol it was not aways a pretty sight!! lol well im going to get off here and see if i can figure out a way to prop my foot so i can do some more work on those cast off pieces

love the bookmarks!!! iv been wanting to make bookmarks forever but never could find wood that was thin enough.. am going to bookmark those sights

i agree it looks great!!!

looks good to mean to

that came out great!!!

great clock!!

im sure he will love it!! and what a great way to show him how proud of him you are!!! adding my prayers that he will have a long healthy and happy career and congrats to him !!

beautiful box...you can tell you put a lot of love into it for you mom

they both look great to me!! like what you did with the bike if it ever gets stolen you will most defently be able to pick it out lol

i cant even count the mastacks iv made over the years lol but i like the dog too lol if you dont want to have him in your show you could always put it in your give away box...im sure theres some one out there somewhere who would love to give him a good home!!!! but i think the other suggestions are wounderful too!!!

oh thats so cute!!! i love it!

looks great! what a great way to honner our country and God

beautiful!! simply beautiful!! i marval at how talented all of you people are!!

simply stunning....reminds me of one of the dogs iv had in my life

beautiful boxes!!! and i love the way you used the cut offs to make another box

perfect!! you did a GREAT job on that bear!!! made me shudder lol

AWSOME!! im sure everyone will enjoy it for years to come!!!

love the micraphone... yup misspelled as usualy! lol and being a bit older myself i tend to like the older stuff myself...lol we have a massive vhs-dvd and now jump drive vido collection!!! lol we have the dvr hooked up to one tv and jump drive wrighter hooked up to the other.... i try to copy as many of the old tv shows that i like as i can since tv is our main...well really our only form of enterment lol iv tons of movies to copyed off the tv of course...so lately most of what we watch are vidos...not much of the new programming that we like... anyway im getting off topic AGAIN!!! lol

lol you need to take a bow!!! i love them all!!! i have that flower and vase pattern....have been meaning to make it.....was it hard to put everything together?

i glanced through all the messages and didnt see anyone doing it this way....if i did miss it im sorry. I do a lot of stack cutting to the way i do it is i take my glue gun and run a long bead on top of the wood all the way around you have to work fast as it dries fast...then i run a bead or two all along the sides...you have to make sure you are glueing all the levels....that usuly works for me....when i cant trace the pattern onto the wood after glueing i wrap masking tape around the wood then glue the pattern onto the masking tape then use clear packing tape to wrap around everything else....

defently hard to tell it from the real thing lol we had 22s rifles and shot guns hanging on ourliving room wall all the years i was growing up.. dad finally let me try to shoot the shot gun after my telling him long enough and loudly enough that it wasnt fair not teaching me too just because i was a girl lol darn thing knocked me flat on my back!!! after that i just stuck to the bb guns and 22s lol not that it mattered since i couldnt hit the broad side of a barn lol

thank you for letting me know its a steve good pattern, now all i have to do is look through ALL my wood patterns and see if i can find it!! lol

lol why are you thanking me? Barb is the one to thank!!! She told me how to do it lol

wounderful pattern and love the lesson on how to keep the letterns all alined right