Dragonkort

Thank you every one. im a bit calmer today. and as always I am giving this to God, trusting him to do what is best for sheba. I may have to keep giving it to God as I have a bad habbit of giving things to God and then taking it back only to give to him again. God and I had a long talk last night and I know he will help me through this....even if I go back and forth through wanting whats best for her and my pleads to have her with me just a little longer. and thank you for the bible virse. thanks again

I know im new here but this section says talk about anything and from the few days iv been here iv only meet kind and careing people so I have a request to make. I took my service dog Sheba to the vets today and got some bad news. It seems that her gums are infected. The vet gave me some antiboit to try to clear it up but shes not sure if it will work. Sheba is a very old little toy pomapoo. Shes about 15 years old. If the antibotics don't work she would need to have some of her teeth removed. This is very expensive. I asked the vet if she new about how much it would cost and she said it would depend on how many teeth would have to be pulled. Please pray that the antibotics will work and if not please pray that the surgery won't cost to much and that she would survive the surgery. I try not to bother people about my disablilty but I feel you have a right know why she is so important to me. You see one of my disablitiesis is sever anxity and panic attacks, with agoraphoba. I was housebound for 18 years befor my ex left. … and I got my first service dog. I don't know if you can understand this or not but my service dog helps me to be calm at home and helps me to get out of the house. It may sound silly to you but for the last 15 years sheba has been literaly at my side at home and has helped me get out of the house. she sits next to me on my Livingroom chair, she has a doggy bed on the kitchen chair next me and she even sleeps with me. She follows me around the house and like I said we are ever apart. Her soft warm body is always next to mine and when im having a hard time she just seems to know and rests her head on my lap and licks my hand. I don't know how to explain it any better. What ever happens I want whats best for Sheba. I know I will have to face loosing her sooner of later but I want you to help me pray that God will allow her to stay with me just a little while longer. The last 2 years have been very hard for me with illness and loosing my mom so iv had a set back with the agoraphoba and seldom leave the house at all anymore. usuly just to go see my various drs. I promised my drs I would work on getting out of t he house more a little bit at a time but im not sure I can fight this battle again with out sheba. When I eventualy loose her I will get another service dog but im not sure I can start this fight again with out her. I know that God answers all paryers but I also know that sometimes his answer is no. I just ask that you add your prayers to mine that God will do whats best for sheba and that hopefuly it will be staying with me just a little longer....and if not that he will help me get through loosing her, with out having to much more of a set back. Thank you and I will not boar any of you with my problems again

Oh dear !!! I see and here I have been just a chatting up a storm in the brgging place! if I have time tomarrow I shall look into a blog thingy. lol wont my kids be tickled when they find out mom has a blog lol and in the mean time I shall stop talking in the bragging place. lol thanks!!! and larry I liked your joke to. lol now if I screw up again please let me know.

had well some day I will learn how to get tI he pictures and words on here properly! lol I do many different kinds of crafts and sometimes I like to combine them together. I went through a time when I was making boxes and I had some wood I wanted to recycle so I decided to make some round boxes. I was also just getting started with the compound cutting, so I decided to incopurated some compound cutting with my boxes and make some pin cousions. I put some doll hair on the ladies and then glued a small piece of wire to one hand and then a piece of cloth to the other so she would look like she was sewing. then I glued the girl to the top edge of the box. Next I cut a some styrafome to shape, covered it with cloth and glued it to t he other side of the top and wal la!! a pincouson was born with a little storage airea for extral pins tape messure or what ever. lol then theres the mini doll bed with doll. I had made several poker boxes an had this bottom part of the box left over so I made a little doll bed with some trim from my sewing trim stash, then I took a small piece of fake fur and my tiney tiny little doll.her hands and face are made from old nylon. lol then back to my small bits of cloth box and a pillow and blanket were made. I glued some yellow felt to the bottom of the box for a mattress. and lastly the little turtle pin cousiion. a friend of mine found this pattern in an old book at the laibary. well of course we just had to make them lol some wood, cloth, felt and trim and we have a baby doll, doll bed mattress and pillow an d blaket.

hi this is proubly a stupid question but could some one tell me what blogs are? lol iv gone to a few here on the sight and there really interesting but im not sure what they are?? lol or why you post there instead of on like the bragging page. lol if you learn to laugh at yourself it doesn't really matter if others laugh at/ with you. lol

Well I know I said id have pictures of the ark of the covent im making from Steve goods pattern but spike is polyurthing them right now. I made 4 of them and I broke one of the pieces of the people holding the pole that the ark rests on. Well I remade it and this time spike broke the darn thing!!! lol but luckly for me he was able to gule it back together so I don't have to remake that piece again. lol yea!! I must mention that I didn't follow the directions exactly. It says If I remember right that the piece is suppose to be made from 1/4 and 1/8 inch wood. Well I have a hard time getting 1/8 inch wood here. lowes and marnards don't seem to have it and that primarly where I get my wood. Im going to ask my son in law if he can fnd me some 1/8 inch wood as I can't always fudge the pattern im using. lol So what I did was I made the ark out of the 1/4 inch wood and the people I made out of 3/4 inch wood. this worked out pretty good and I think it looked nice as it gave me some wood to practice carving. I ran into a few problems doing this however ….. or one problem times 4! when I made the side bars of the ark where the notches are....I didn't figure in the larger wood of the poles!! lol grrrr so now I had to either toss out what I had made or try to think of some way to get the wider poles to rest inside those little notches from the sidebars of the ark....well I am not one to redo something and waist the good parts when If I can find a way to fix it. So what I did is this....I cut 4 very small pieces of the 1/4 inch wood and then drilled a hole with my very small drill bit into the side of the 1/4 inch wood and then on cut a small piece of toothpick and glued it into the drilled hole. I did this for all for of the side bars then I set the side bars on the the part that's suppose to be the pole and drilled a little hole where the notiches lined up and insirted the other other end of the toothpick into the hole on the bar the people were holding. this will make more sense when you see the pictures. im afaired im not explineing it very well. but anyway now the sidebars of the ark rest on pole parts better. I also seem to have trouble when making notch and slot projects. no matter how careful I am I never seem to be able to get the notches to fit into t he holes!!! grrrs lol so it takes a lot of fanagleing to put the darn things together. I used all 1/4 in wood for the ark so you would think the notiches would fit nicely into the slots.....but no the notches were all to big to fit into the slots. well spike helped me put it together by making the slots bigger until the notices would fit into them. unfrountly this made some of t he slots to big!!! well neither one of us wanted to redo all the ark pieces again (espicaly since I have this problem with all notch and slot projects I do. (you proubly already know this trick but just in case you don't heres what we did. )we used white alex pluss acrylic latex caulk plus silicone to fill in the holes then sanded it smooth before painting it. lol I wouldn't do this on toys or anything that's going to be used for food,, but for something like this it worked great!! the first 2 look a little rough so I'll keep one of those and give the other one to my daughter. the 2 that came out good i'll give to the 2 people who asked me to make them one. lol today I finished cutting out the elephant phone charger thingy and yes the notches don't fit into the slotes!!! grrrr!! this time however instead of trying to make the slots bigger i'll take my trusty dermal and work on making the notches smaller. im making like 10 of them so hopeful at least half of them will come out good enough to give away and if im real lucky one or two might be good enough to put in the stock box. lol i'll get the pictures up asap hopefuly tomarrow so this post might make a little better sense. lol tomarrow i'll fagle with the elephants and tonight i'll just sit and crochet a bit or maybe cut out some plastic canvas. lol

just wounderful!!! and for such a wounderful cause! my youngest daughter got me a little kitten from a rescue for mothers day a few years ago. I just love her and shes a great little mouser to!!! lol I seldom see a mouse in the house since we got her. actually she got one the other day, first in almost 2 years. I saw the mouse screamed and jumped up on a chair until spike got it away from her finished killing it and put it in the trash. lol silly man started to bring it to me to show me hed gotten it, I screamed again.lol DONT BRING IT OVER HERE !!!! lol he informed me it was dead and I informed him I didn't care if it was cut into little pieces I didn't want it any where near me!!! can you tell im scared silly of mice. lol

that is so lovely!! such beautiful work!!

simply beautiful! thank you for shareing

That is just beautiful!!!! I love it!!!

This is a little sea turtle box. I had a little sea turtle named spock but I have to give him away. He was getting to big for his aquriem and I couldn't afford to keep buying bigger ones, although I think I would have tried to find different container to him in if it wasn't getting just to hard for me to clean out his aquarem. I had to make sure I had a top over his container what ever it was so ivy our cat couldn't get to him. I miss him terribly but we do what is best for our animal children in the long one. Im sure hes proubly happier in his new home. One of the teachers at the elemantry school took him. He stays in the class room wth all the kids during school and whenschool is out she takes him home where she has several other turtles of varies kinds.lol owl always love you I made because it was cute and I needed stock for me craft boxes. I did this cocatial in memory of my little napolen. This is another reycyled project. i''ll try to find a better picture. Its a gulf ball bird. I cant make to may of these because I don't play golf. lol I just happened to find a small bag of old golf balls at my favorite thrift store and picked them up. my poor spike he looked at me shook his head and said what are you going to do with old golf balls? lol now this little guy wasn't a wood craft project all at!! I got him out of one of my plastic canvas pattern books. lol I didn't have any plastic canvas at the time but I wanted to make this for Halloween so I just redid it into wood lol well that's enough for now i'll add more pics of some kind or another tomorrow. lol now this ghost

Thanks every one!!! its nice to have some one to show what iv done. lol I guess iv missed feedback more then I thought. lol I have tons of pictures of stuff iv made over the years so you will proubly get sick of seeing it all. lol I finished putting the last ark of the covent together today and will finish painting them tomorrow. Then i'll take pics of one of them to show. lol and Oh Rocky I live in a small village, but no one comes a knocking on my door to see what im doing now. LOL

I am so sorry for your loss. Iv had dogs all my life and it never gets any easer when they go. I lost my snoodle last year. He was 13. He died in the car at my side his head on my lap as we pulled into the vets parking lot. They did some tests and told me he had had a tumer that had just gotton to big on the inside. The vet asked me if id noticed anything different about him but there really wasn't. He was just slowing down, he still ate good if not as much as he used to, and he tired out fastr when we played but like I sad he was 13. There was nothing to indicate he was in any kind of destress until the night before we made an emergicy trip to the vet. Before that I had to put my first service dog down. he was almost 20... he was blind and had no teeth but he still did pretty good. all my Charlie ever wanted was to be at my side. we made him soft canned dog food and I kept him leashed to me. he was just beginning to go a little senile I think because at times he would sit in the Livingroom on the floor just looking around. Id talk to him softly and inch closer to him until he relized it was me and hed start wagging his tail. Then one day his hind legs gave out. he just couldn't stand anymore. so I held him close all that day and night. The next day I had to put him down. I held him in my arms and at first he fought it, but when I told him it was ok, he could go id be alright he gave a sigh and was gone. A lot of people say I just imanaged that....but I know what saw and felt. My Sheba is close to 14 now. She is almost if not completely blind now. I put drops in her eyes twice a day. And we finally found some canned dog food that's not to hard for her eat. and I smush up her soft doggie treat she gets before we go to bed. like Charlie , sheba is always at my side yes even in bed. A lady at the store a few months ago told me I should retire her and get a new service dog, but I can't do that. she's been at my side literly for almost 14 years and I know she would die if I tried to retire her. Her job isn't hard she just lays in her dog carrier and sleeps now when were out. lol The only thing I do differently now is I put a nice soft pillow/blanket in her bag and I keep the top completely closed now. Not because she would do anything wrong but because people have a tendicy to stick there hand in the bag or start to pet her while asking if they can pet her, before I can tell them no because shes working. Im afraid sheba might bite some one if they starttl her by trying to pet her. I thank God every day that he allows her to remain here with me and I pray every night for at least one more day with her. I understand your pain and will pray that God be with you and helps you through this so very hard time in your life. Also I think a scrolled pic of her would be wounderful thing!! I made a scrolled sharpa for my daughter when her sharpa coco died and she still has it hung on the wall. some day I might get up enough courage to try to cut out the pattern of Charlie some one made for me. but there are just so many little lines real close to each other....Im just not good enough at scrolling to cut all those real close little lines. when I try I wind up breaking the piece. oh well. All I can suggest is to remember fondly all the good times you two had together and try to remember hes in a better place now. Running and playing just like a young pup in Gods golden fields of grass trees and flowers. At least that what I do when I loose one of my animal children. It takes awhile but eventuly the memories become bitter sweet.

LOL Fedido, I can't do math either. lol We live about 15 minutes from johnsons workbench and I once went in to to fill our a job application. They sort of knew me because Id been going there off and on for years to get supplys. Well anyway they gave me a test to take and I looked at it and if was all math!!! Well I knew right then and there I wasn't going to get a job there. lol So I took the test back in and told them Id changed my mind. Since like I said they sort of knew me they asked why? It seemed to them that this would be a great job for me. When I told them I can't do math they wanted to know well like how much math could I do. Sorry to say I can bairly do first -second grade math. I even have a spical tape measure that has what all those little lines between the numbers means. lol spike made me a wood size gage thingy for me by cutting small squires of wood out of the main woods I work with and wrote down on them what sized wood they are the thickness of them lol I have memorized those so don't have to really look at it anymore. lol Then they asked just HOW did I manage to do woodworking and scrolling with out math? lol befor spike made me the wood gage thingy id just look at the picture of the finished project and then find a piece of wood that looked about like what was In the picture. lol so thanks for shareing now I know im not the only one who has to just sort of wing it when im doing my crafting lol

I have GOT to get spike (bf) to look at and read this theard!!! lol He just cleaned and organized my workshop! lol Why pray tell do you ask? Because this is a quote....YOU never put anything away or clean this room. LOL he's given up on my craft room. lol When we brought this house about 5 years ago one of the selling points was a fairly good sized work room. I have enough room in it to have all my power tools in it out and up and ready to use!!! I even have room to walk around in there and theres a wood cabinet that runs all across the short end wall I can put stuff in and on. I'll see if spike can take a pic of it before my messy disorganized self winds up messing it up again. lol Before that I lived in the back apartment of my moms duplex. There was a very long narrow room with shelves along half of one long wall where I had all my pattern mags and paper patterns as well all my paint, and tools and supplys. lol I had to move things around the shelfs to get what I wanted half the time and if that was't bad enough I I had like 3 big boxes in there full of plastic bags packing stuff and unfinished crafts and finished crafts. lol My wood was kept in a plastic garbage can, now that was fun trying to get out the wood I needed. lol I stashed some wood under our bed as well as broken down shipping boxes in our bed room. lol where the majority of my other craft supplys were in bags. lol now for painting I had a small desk behind our bed and rolling drawer thingy on wheels for small bottles of paint. lol The bigger things I painted on the kitchen table. But it seemed pretty big to me at the time because before that I lived in a little trayler with my kids and for awhile my tools were in moms basement about 3 miles from where I lived, that only lasted a few months before I decided this was not a good aragrement. Which means I had my brother and father help me bring my scrolls and drill press to my trayler where I made room for them in the kitchen!!!! lol my hand held power tools were stashed under the kitchen table and in a small metal cabnet I put under the bar sepreating the kitchen and living room. It worked out pretty good there and there was still room for 3 bar stools under there too. lol that seemed like heaven at the time because before my ex left me he would have to haul my scroll saw upstairs and into the kitchen of the house we lived in at that time after I lost the basement. lol its true where theres a will theres a way! lol i'll look and see if I can find any pictures of theses as it never really accured to me to take pics of my working aires. even though I have a good woodshop now I usuly do all my paitig and putting together of projects in the kitchen.lol gezz I talk a lot.lol on posts anyway in person I hardly say a thing. lol

Oh I just love those signs!!!! lol are they copywritten? I don't want to make a sign and get into trouble for giving it away or selling it to someone who asks for one.

Not sure if im doing this right or not so just let me know if I should just add to the first topic or start another one when I add pictures. Now this piece is made from scrap wood I had from another project. I thought it looked to nice to toss out so I went to my emboridy machine and emboried this saying and picture. When that was done I used this scrap piece as the frame. lol I have a few more of these scrap wood pieces that I will use as frames for other things. lol second picture is the mouse pincousin opened from the other post. LOL it was just a sitting there saying I don't know why you didn't see me before. lol. then we have paul bunin. yes yes I know horrable spelling. lol anyway paul is from one of my compound cut books. I used dowl if I rmember right for the tree stumps. Then I used 2 scrap pieces of wood and fitted a broken sawblade to it to make the saw. the wood the saw is inbeded in is an old plastic branch from a cake decoration I had left over. I made the bed roll from a scrap piece of denim and the little rocks are really left over pieces of puter I nabbed from a friend of mine before she could put it back in her casting pot to remelt. lol behind paul is a plastic fern tree. not sure where that came from . I don't think you can see it in the pictures but my friend donated a leadbased cast ax for paul to hold. my poor spike every time I say DONT THROW THAT OUT! he says do you HAVE to save EVERYTHING!! lol I say no but don't throw anything away before you ask me first. lol He doesn't listen to that lol so I have to try and catch him before he tosses out a potential craft item. lol i'll post more next time. when you are tired of seeing all the wood stuff iv crafted over the years just let me k now. Right now im working on the ark of the covenit pattern that I got from steve goods patterns. I'll post that one when its finished.

thanks again for the wounderful welcome. Yes I will be very careful with the table saw. I have a healthy fear of loosing my digits!!! so far iv never gotten my hands to close to any of the working parts of my power tools!!!

oh that is so pretty!!! some day i'll get up enough courage to try one like thatlol

that's great!!! it looks just as good if not better then the finished picture of it that I have In one of my scroll saw mag

WOW !!! that is really fantastic!!!

beautiful box. I use steve good patterns to

what a wounderful picture!!! I love mearl haggard to. have severl of records/cds

I love that pattern. I haven't cut it out yet though as im not a great painter. loll you did it so beautifuly!! Very realistic!

that's great!! I had a compound cut pattern book I gave to a friend of mine because it had a different thing on each side and I never was able to get them to come out right. lol