Dragonkort

fantastic work!!! everything is beautiful!!! I hope I will be able to scroll as well by the time im 80!!! I do understand the coming back to scrolling after a few years off... I had to take 2 years off myself for health reasons and im having so much fun nw that I can scroll againl

ok here are some things iv been working on and finished today, the first one is steve goods raiser holder.. I made several of these I use the woodflooring to make these as they wont warp in a steamy bathroom and are water proff… I did some with the design from the original pattern on the side and then I made some with an angle on the side. im not totally happy about the edges but couldn't think of any way to make them look better... the last onces are of the bulldog toothpicks. I made 2 of them one for me and one for my oldest daughter for Christmas...but I didn't paint it the brile color of her bulldog moose...because I didn't think I could make it look right...lol I took several pictures at different angles...the one with the plan purple collar is for my daughter and the one with the spikes on it is mine but I think I got a little carried away with the spikes lol it didn't look like that many when they were just holes!! lol oh well I will know better next time..and the reason I painted the collars purple is because purple is my oldest daughters favorit color...lol I chew on nicoteen toothpicks to help me cut down on my smoking so I used the old toothpicks to make the spikes...they were not easy to get about the right size and glueing them into to holes was not a whole lot of fun either but I don't think they look to bad here

love it!! my oldest daughter is in love with the Harry Potter stuff, so for Christmas this year I crocheted her a harry potter sorting hat.. she loved it!!

yes I agree...funny thing about me and spike...im bairly 5 foot 1 and now that hes shrunk an inch hes 6 foot 4 !!!! lol now he of course sets up all my tools for me.....making benches and such and he usuly finds that after I go out the first to see how hes got it set up....he looks at me and says hum gonna have to lower it more!! lol When he got me the tablesaw he bought a table saw stand for it but wound up making a table to put it on because after we put the saw on it it wasn't at what he felt was a comfortable hight for me, I said it was fine but noo then he decided it still had to be lowered a bit more for safty measures!! lol He seldom uses my tools but when he does im sure its a bit annoying for him!! lol When he first moved in with me after about a week in a half I knew we had to sit down and have a little talk!! every thing I use had to be at MY arms reach!! lol which is about everything lol so we compermised things I use all the time at my arms reach, everything else I don't care as long as he will get it for me....lol that lasted a short time before he got me a step stool lol he asked me what I did before he came , simple I never put anything on the upper shelves!! lol

I love it!!! you did a great jo on that!!!

fantastic!!! they look great!!

looks comfey!! Spike got me a bar stool with a back on it so I could sit and scroll....For years I never know you could sit and saw at the same time lol Not only do I love it but now I actually need it as I cant stand for to long at a time as my lower back hurts like the dickens... Iv had back aces in the past most of my jobs required heavy lifting but after I got on disability the pain just sort of left....but this kind of back pain oh my!!! He got me another bar stool to use in the kitchen so now I can do the dishes lol what a sweet man he is !!! lol

all I can say is WOW that is fantastic and beautiful!!! now YOU are a master craftsmen!!! not sure if that's the right word but im sure you know what I mean!!!

Thank you so much birchbark !!! now see here lets not get me all nervious about cutting this before i even get started!!! lol i have decided to only drill out 3 or 4 holes at a time and cut them then drill a few more after that....that way if i mess it up i will still be able to use the uncut wood. lol now i will inlarge this pattern a bit befor attatching it to the wood and i will carefuly go one cut at a time and with Gods help get it cut.....as this is just a slightly more complex pattern then what iv done in the past.....we will countue to tell myself that until after i get cut....lol then we will see lol yup this is just a mediumly harder cut then iv ever done before..... lol again Thank you so much for the pattern!!! and yes if i ever get it finishes before i die i will defently put it up!!! lol

thank everybody, mericals happen every day and this is NOT the first merical God has granted me..... but it is the 3d biggest one... the first 2 were my 2 daughers...you see after i had my son i was told i could never have any more children....but i can be a real pest as im sure all of you are starting to figure out. lol so i keep prayibg and kept praying to have more children....About 3 1/2 years after i had my son , John i got pg again....unfrountly i miscarried my sweet little keven micheil....That was hard enough and bad enough but my ex at that time didn't consider him a child since he was never really born....but i know better and light a candle ever sept when he would have been born and every christmas and Easter. and include him every question asking how many children i have.....but i never stoped praying and 4 years later i had my daughter Helen and a little less then a year after that i had my little Heather. I still countued to pray for more children but God knows best and said no 3 are enough lol even though i buged him about it constently until i went through medapause. lol But Gods gift and job for me was to be a mother....so now i have my animal babies. lol I cant wait to send pictures of the kids to norma and the one of my grandson....and of course as soon as we set a date for her to come down she will see my animal babbies lol i just finished her letter today and am getting the kids and there spouses pictures and my grandson s picture to print out to send her.

thank you amazing it was most defently a merical and a blessing!! and thank you to everybody else who reacted to my post too

I know i said i hoped to have some finished projects to put up today but i had a wounderful surprise last night and again this morning!! 30 some odd years ago i moved down here to bellevue after my ex left me. Well when i was married i meet a woman named Norma and we became fast friends... she was more like family then a friend. My kids called her aunt norma... she visited us almost every day when we lived close to each other and then after we moved out to the country she would catch a ride with my ex on his way home from work and come stay with us in our country home for weekeds or sometimes for a week or two. well after my ex left me she couldnt come to vist me as she had no way to get to my house, and even after my sister gave me the car she a bought to soap up or what ever you do them to do a demalition derby i still still couldnt drive into lansing to pick her up. i hadnt driven in like 18 years. i raily if ever went out side of my house into our own yard let alone drove anywhere !! and of course the ex wouldnt bring her out even when he came to get the kids for the weekends....and eventualy i moved here to bellevue to be close to my family. Well as you can guess we lost touch with each other.... now after facebook came into being i looked on there in the hopes of finding her... she did have a facebook page but by the time i had found it she hadnt written in it for a couple years...so i looked at her contacts and wrote several of the people she talked to to see if i could find her...but i had no luck.... well last night when i went on facebook to see what was going on with my family and kids i got the shock of my life....there was a privite message for me from guess who??? Norma!!! lol it seems that she to had been looking for me all these years too!!! lol so i wrote her a nice long post and asked if she had a phone or something so we could talk....when i got up this morning i was hoping to find a message from her and i did!!! so i got the phone out and called her right away !! we talked for over an hour!! lol seems she's about 3 hours away from where i live.... we exchanged address so we can write to each other as she dosnt hav a computer she can log onto all of time . it was nice to hear her voice again!!! she dosnt have a car but spike said we could ride to her place from time to time and we can evern pick her up and bring her out here to visit us for 2 - 3 days at a time... im so glad we finally found each other again!!! so iv spent the majority of the day writting her a nice long letter which i still havent finished yet and helping spike mow the lawn.its been just a wounderful day!!!! well sorry i posted all this here but iv been so excited today that i just had to tell somebody and since spike already knows that left you guys!!! hope everybody has a wounderful day!!!

Thank you so much birchbark. i am not quite sure what you mean about the white spots if i understand correctly these white spots should be connected to something... but im not sure what? lol Thank you so much for offering to fix it for me...I would really appreachet it if you would fix it for me. I can pay you a little something or perhaps make you something from my other non wood crafts ? I have had this picture for decaids but never know quite how to go about cutting it. I did think it would proubly be the black that i would i cut.... now a few more question if you dont mind? iv talked to people here and before i start this i want to try to make sure i have some idea of what im doing!! this is not a project to takle with a wish and a prayer as i usuly do!! from what iv heard i should stake cut between 2 and 4 of these.... and use the small blades.....1s 2s and 3s and use 1/4 inch balitic burch, any other instructions or suggestions would most defently be welcomed! im sorry i didnt answer this post sooner, iv looked in my notices to see if there was an answer to my question but i didnt see one, maybe it dosnt alert you for answered posts for this section of the sight....I decided to look here and see if my message got posted because i didnt see any notices that it had been answered . i was sure someone would have answered it if it had gotten posted and i was right! when i do this one it will be the most complex design i have ever tried....and now that i have some one to help me get the pattern right i won't have any excuess not to do it!! lol most people dont understand how an anxity panic disorder with agoraphobia effects every part of our lives... They think its just the fear and anxity of getting outside or leaving our homes that effects us... if that were only true!! iv been crafting for 30 + years...including woodworking but i have always been afraid to try anything that wasnt really rather simple....iv gotten a little better over the years and spike helps me when im not sure what to do next...but this sight and all you wounderful people have made me want to try something a little harder... Thank you to all of you and i will try not to wreak the peace or disapoint anyone with my efforts....i'll try to take pictures as i work on it so you guys can see my progress and how im doing. Now remember this is NOT going to be the only project im going to work on until its done lol this is mainly for me lol and i will be doing other woodworking projects at the same time. lol i will need to have projects im fairly sure i can do to keep my nerves half way steady!! lol and again thank you ever so very much!!!

lol you desirve every complament and then some!!! and you can always get a bigger hat if need be lol!!

WOW WOW WOW!!! That is fantastic!!! i love it!!! you did a great job on him!!

love love love the dragon!!! but then again my nick name isnt Dragon for nothing lol they are both cut out great!! cant say much about the person as i dont watch horror movies loll

wounderful!!

beautiful !! and like everyone else i think the black backer is great!! it really makes your cuts stand out!!

fantastic!!! i have both a cat, and 2 dogs, and i wont forget my little watson a blue parikeet.... a house just isn't a home with out animals in it!! lol at least thats what i keep telling spike...in the hopes that he will let me have maybe 1 more?? lol but nope hes not budging !! lol all my kids have cats to and my oldest daughter of course has her bulldog moose...who bows down to the cats lol i might add and they are very very old cats!!! Her luna is a cat we had when she was in high school when my youngest daughter graduated high school she took luna with her when she moved into her fathers house lol they are both in there 30s now. my daughters not the cats!! lol great piece!!

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

beautiful !!! i love it!!

everybodys already said everything .... wow...fantastic, a true work of art and labor of love!! cant wait to see what you do next!

defentlly a nice job!!

lol well thats because you keep your patterns in your workshop ! lol i stoped doing that years ago lol they get all full of sawdust and you have to keep moving them around and of course its much nicer to sit in my living room chair when i want to just look through patterns lol spikes constently telling me i need to get orgnizd lol at 62 i dont see that happening. lol the most organized i get is having the wood patterns sepreat from the cloth and yarn patterns lol although iv been looking into the front pourch room where i keep my cloth and yarn patterns to see if theres room in there somewhere where i can put that tub of wood patterns books. oh i misspoke i do have the scroll saw mags in the woodshop,,,,there all stacked on a shelf in there. i havent found a good place to put them yet where they would be easer to get at. but im not going to push it to much lol my poor darling man is surrounded with to many craft things all over the house now as it is lol i'll let him get used to the things i have in the main living parts of the house now before i sneak a few more things in here lol hes always saying why dont you do your stuff in your workshop or craft room now that you have them... ( now listen up ladys and men )i tell him but honey i want to be with you!!! lol well im off again hee haws on !!

hum iv never had any problumes with the spiral blades...you have to go a bit slower because if you go to fast and the blade wavers off the line your wood gets cut because all sides of the spiral are cutting edges... unlike with just the normal blades. I like the spirals as it makes it easer for me to cut some things...espicaly the larger projects that I have trouble turning. but I have to remember to go slower...when I first started using them I would get some parts cut where I ddnt want it cut but like they say practice makes perfect...now when Im cutting with the spirals I remind myself constently that the blade cuts on all sides!! I just hate it when I forget that and end up making a cut where there isn't suppose to be a cut....then you have to look at the project and see what you can do to mask the mastake, make it part of the project so no one knows you made a mastake or make something different then what you started out to make... and if worse comes to worse I just salvage what pieces of wood I can still use to make small projects and toss the rest...….if it dosnt rain tomarrow im going to go out back and look at all those twigs and tree brances we have in a huge pile in the back yard and see what I might be able to u se to make someing….I mean you cant just let all that good wood go to waist!! I do have a few ideas.... like making perches for the really small layered birds I make....and maybe I can incorporate some into fret or layered patterns or something... i'll just have to keep thiking on it but oh!! if any of you hve any suggestions as to things to do with the twigs and branches im always willing to listen lol and now my show is almost over so id best get off here and try to get something done today lol