Dragonkort

Hi guys, just letting everyone know im still around but might not be on much.. you see its the beginning of the harvest season and that means im going to be busy and wont be able to get into my wood shop as much. Yesterday i made sauce and today im making stuffed peppers. I have the first 2 pans cooling on the counter, another 2 pans are in the oven cooking and i have 2 more pans to put in the oven when those are done....then after everything cools i have to package them up and put them in the freezer... im taking a small break right now before i get started on the zuccinee... I have 4 groucy bags of zuccinne that i have to peal, cut , grate and then preree... once all thats done i can start making zuccinee bread and cookies and muffens. lol im hoping to get some corn on the cob soon too. and depending on how much bread and such i get from this batch of zuccinne i might have to buy more zuccinee as i make the bread and stuff for the whole family...siblings children neices and nephews and some forthe people in the neigberhood.... lol needless to say im tired at the end of the day lolo then after i get all that done it should be time to pick the apples off the apple trees in the back yard and start making applesauce, apple butter and dried apples. lol depending on how well my trees do this year.... i could make as much last year as the trees didnt produce many apples and the ones they did produce were small....checked the apple trees a couple of weeks ago and again the apples are pretty small im hoping they will get bigger by the end of sept....im going to have to look up on line to see what might be wrong with my tree or what i need to do to get them making large apples and more of them....it would help if i know what KIND of apple tree it is but of course i dont there just apple trees that came with the house lol.....but i will still try to sneak into the woodshop and do what i can inbetween baking and canning and getting things ready to bake and cann lol well need to check the oven...i'll try to come look if nothing else

lol well you will know for next time lol, It dosnt always work but at least for me it has saved a lot of my paint! the brush cleaner sort of puts the mosture back into the paint but you have to be careful not to put to much brush cleaner in the paint lol

beautiful and stunning and fantastic!!! i love to see them with the lights!!! this should help to bring in the coustermerees!!! you did a wounderful job!!

beautiful and inspireing!!! i love it!!

lol my daughter starts her first teaching job this comming year. she was planning on teaching jiouner high kids but found out it will be k through 8th. she a little nervious about that as she didnt do very well the really small kids during her externship. all i can do is tell her to take her time it takes some pratice and hands on learning to deal with the really little ones....and i told her to talk to her mother in law about it as well as she s a retired teacher. i do miss her so much!!! but she bought me a portal ( vido phone like thingy) so we can visit that way and its almost like her being here. we will see i guess what happens and i feel better with the portal as we can still talk about the things she nerves about. I got a call from my grandson and he and his parents are going to be checked for covid and if they are all clear he can come back down and say for a couple of days here and there... he told me he wants to make a house next time he come s over. im going to see if spike will take the small scroll saws into johnsons to see what needs to be done to make them work well. i want to put one up for him here and then give him one for christmass. Hes 9 now and really likes doing the woodworking. lol im just not sure if his mom will have time to supervise him and my sons not sure he could handle the noise. ( hes a funching austic man) im hoping with his spical earphones he will be able to supervise him... im still talking to them about connor getting the saw.... i just have to see if johnsons is opened yet. just talked to spike hes going to get them out and see if there still working. there fairly old but we have the pin blades for them and we can get the rust of them.... i just hope the moters are ok on them im still working on my wizzard fret pattern...i tend to break blades lol but the main reason its taking so long for me to finish it is because my service dog sheba is so old now. she blind and has no teeth poor little lady lo but now she needs me as much as i need her...when she cant find me or smell me i think she makes her way to the wood shop lol and barks at me until i stop pick her up and sit in our chair in the living room !! lol after a few minutes she jumps back down and lies under my recliners foot stool and goes to sleep. lol then i can sneak back intothe wood shop and do a little more cutting!! lol im running into a small problem with the wizzard though...I cant reach all the inside cuts with my drill press. lol so i have to wait for spike totake one ofthe hand drills and drill the holes in the middleofthe patternfor me. lol and he is of course not sure he wants to drill the holes for me because hes afraid he might break it lol so i lold him you have to at least try because i cant finish it if you dont!!! lol and yes i do know how to use a hand drill , mine is lighter then his weight wise but as i countue to loose my upper body strength its getting harder for me to drill with the hand drill. and i dont want to break it lol asides from that im still working on the compound cuts, the dragon t light holders and spike got me the wood to make the dragon house sign for us that i want to make lol i just have to trace it on to the wood. lol im going to have totake a lot o f carbon paper to cover the wood and then tape the pattern to that so i can cut it out.... im going to carve most of the inside lines as i think it will be stronger that way rather then doing it in fret work. and of course im still doing all my other crafts as well...i have almost enough plarn to at least start crocheting a sleeping mat and im still making barbie doll cloths lol well this is VERY LONG so id best go before i get into trouble!!! take care and cant wqait to see what else you do!!

beautiful!!!

those are so beautiful!!! i love the lighted effects!!

beautiful dogs!!! did you stack cut them?

wounderful!!!!

WOW!!! cant wait to see it finished!!!!

that looks great!!! you did a fantastic job!!!

Im just glad that i was able to be of some help to someone. lol when you cant really draw you have to find other ways to do things. My youngest daughter just graudated from collage this sumer and starts her first job when school starts... She became an art teacher...and i am so proud of her!! She will be starting her teaching by teaching at least at first on line. with this pandemic a lot of things are hard to find these days.... another place you can often find line drawings is in magazines.... best advice i can give you is to just keep your eyes opened while you going about your days.... there are many places a pic could show up. im so sorry your having tremmers now... it must be terrabley hard not to be able to doi the art work you love so much!! Trying to relearn how to live is not an easy task. I am having to do that myself these days. i have spent my entire life multi tasking...but as i am getting older and my health is getting worse i am finding this much harder to do. lolo my boy friend is always telling me to just do one thing at a time and then go on to the next one. lol now you would think that would be easy enough to do. lol but some how regardless of what im doing im thinking about and planning and working ou in my head the next 2 - 5 things im going to do or getting ready to do or alread am doing lol .... oh in case you didnt guess it im a 62 year old lady!! lol pace yourself if you can and try to to just consintrate on the project at hand. and when you get get frustrated with yourself you can always talk to me about it knowing that im going through the same type of thing lol and we can just be frustrated together!! lol let me know if theres ever any thing i can do to help you

great project!! how did you attatch the picture to the wood so it will stay and the corners wont peal up?

Iv got a simular problem with my paint... hadnt used them in about 2 years...Iv been able to save some of my paints by putting a bit of brush cleaner in with the paint and stiring it. just a thought and something you might want to try before you toss out all your paints

i love it!! the backer really makes him look fearch!!

stunning...you did a fantastic job

i agree fantastic job

you should get a great reward for that one!!! she will love it as a great addition to her garfield collection, if she has one, and if she dosnt its a great piece to start one lol

i agree with everyone else lol simply beautiful!!

that i beautiful stunning and great work! they are indeed a lucky couple and will no doupt treasure it forever

Oh that is so fantastic!! you did a wounderful job on that house!!!

beautiful!!! and i love they way you used the different woods!

awsome dosnt begin to describ how great and beautiful your work is!!! you are more then taleted in both pattern making and cutting!

wounderful such a nice piece!!

I agree with everyone else you did GREAT!!! now about patterns i agree with everyone else on that too. and another advantage with a printer you can print a lot of different things as well. I do have a suggestion for patterns...if you cant do any of the things already suggested you might try this..... Get some coloring books...there usuly not very expensive....then take some tracing paper and trace the picture. after that is done you can use spray adhesives to attatch the pattern to the wood, then take mailing tape and cover your traced picture with it. This helps keep the picture adheared to the wood and helps lubercate the blade....another way to get the picture onto the wood is to tape your traced pattern on to the wood at 3 sides. Then slide a piece of carbion paper between the traced picture and the wood... now go over the lines of the traced picture with something. When i first started scrolling i used a crochet hook to trace the lines..later i got a traceing tool i bought from the winterfield collection... you can pretty much make a pattern out of any line drawing that way. you can usuly figure out the inside cuts by looking at the whole picture...for instance a picture of a girl with her hands on her hips...you would cut out the center piece between the arm and the body... i hope that makes at least a little bit of sense. Here are some pictures of projects i made from line drawings..The shied with the red strip and dragon on it i made from a coloring book picture of a shild the dragon is a piece of scrap wood from a compound cut dragon. The pilgrams are from a picture i found in our local grocy stores add in the paper at thanksgiving time. the second shield is from a picture in an old D & D magizine you can see where i did the fret work on that one.the guy in the center of the shield is another wast piece from a compound cut. The last picture Sometimes the Dragon Wins is also a picture i traced from a cartoon pic in a D & D magazine. I traced each piece seperatly to make the overlay of the pattern. I used very small pieces of wood from different thickness to put under the over lays to give the picture some depth. Before glueing the overlays to the base i painted the background. then i made the frame to go around it. I made the sign at the bottom from another piece of scrap wood left over from a different project. well i know i didnt expline all that very well but hopefuly the pictures will help, and i didnt get to long winded