dragonkort2

Iv been doing all kinds of crafts lately. These are some pictures of the wood crafts. My grandson was out for the weekend last weekend and we were looking through some of my wood patterns. In one of the books he saw this wood box and told me his mom used to have one just like it but it got ruioned so spike went out to see if we had the wood needed to make and since we did we made his mom a new box lol . I would have liked to have done some carving on it but we wanted it to be like the orginal so just left it blank, i would have liked to have put a cousion on it too...but her orginal didnt have a cover sooo we just left it lol . I am going to make some more of these if the wood prices come down so i can cave on them and put cousions on them. As i was looking through my wood i discovered 2 fret work peices all ready to be cut out. I have no idea how long they have been sitting in there but its been at least 3 years. I know because until last year I hadnt been able to do any of my crafts for about 3 years. there just simple easy fret work peices as when i tried to do more complex things i always wound up with breakage. since being here iv learned the reason none of my attempts to do more complex work is because i have cheap plywood. lol I am going to try to get some better plywood once the price of wood goes down somes. then i will ask you guys which type of ply wood i should get for the more complex patterns. at least now i know its not because after all these years im still just not good enough to do them lol I also love plants so i got out steve goods dog planter pattern and made that. I painted it to look like our new 1 year old dog bonnie. lol as soon as the paint drys im going to put the one plant i ordered through the mail that didnt arrive dead in it and put it outside. I have far to many plants in the house!! lol we're being over run with plants and the houseplants need to be thined out again and everbody put in new pots..... where im going to put them God only knows. My daughter in law said she will take some for her and my grandson connor as he started getting into plants at school this past year. I used to give my overflow to my daughter to take to work with her when she worked at the caseno.... for her friends but since she graduated collage shes moved to maryland with her husband and is teaching art in the schools there. My friend who i used to give plants to has moved so thats out, espically since she got good at keeping them alive. lol she now has as many plants as i do the only thing is id like to get rid of some of the plants i have so i could get some different kinds but i dont see that happening as like i said its time to thing out and repot the plants i have again! somehow i just cant just let them die or throw away the offshoots that are ready for there own pots. not only that but im not sure spike will be willing to buy me more pots to put the over flow in to. lol humm maybe my brother will take one or two again. so far he hasnt learned how to keep them alive yet. lol Im going to make the swan plant holder to and im going to send these patterns to my friend and see if she can make me a cat and a turtle planter....i do miss my little turtle spock, but it was just getting to hard for us to change his water and clean the apuriam and he was ready for a bigger one already so i gave him to one of the elemantary school teachers for her class room. she already had some land turtles so i knew hes be in good hands. Iv been thinking of maybe getting a land turtle if spike would let me but id have to look into more. I dont want to get one and then have to give him away .... but thats kind of mute spike said i cant have any more animals inless i get rid of one of the ones i have lol and thats not going to happen. He thinks 2 dogs, a cat and a bird are more then enough animal children to help me cope with my empty nest syndrume lol anyway the other 2 pictures are of the things my grandson cut out while he was here. ones a christmass solder and the other is of a knight jumping toy we still have to put the strings on. now i just have to find some new patterns to start on tomorrow lol time start some woodcarvings i think. My friend who moved up north wants me to make some for her to sell up there..... well off to go through my crocheting patterns a woman at the store asked spike if id make some hats to donate for giveing out this winter. lol I have several usb fill of crochet patterns to look through. lol Iv already made 3 of the baby grover hats. now im looking to find another pattern, for older children lol

Thank you charlie. Its put on hold right now as mark is really busy but when he gets a free weekend we will ride out to his place and see just why that thing is refusing to work lol in the mean time im watching more of pauls videos

well its been awhile since i was last here. Thats because iv been trying to get my cnc machine working. were so darn close its driving me nutts!!! i know what to do and how to do it for the most part now, at least the simple stuff but for some reason the darn thing isnt working.... a wounderful man on pauls cnc sight named mark has been trying to help me over the computer but sometimes im just not sure what to do...the last thing he told me to try was to download a driver...he told me where to go and which driver to download but when i went to the sight i looked through ALL the drivers listed there and the one he told me to download wasnt there. grrr spike and my sister keep telling me i should just give up and count my losses...which being me im NOT going to do so finally spike asked where mark lives ( only 4 hours from us) and asked him if we could bring the cnc machine and computer to him to see if he can figure out what the heaks going on..... he cant do it this month but maybe next month we can take it to him. It is VERY FRUSTRATING to be following the directions...double checking with the person whos helping you get the yup everythings set up right go ahead and hit carve and then HAVE NOTHING HAPPEN! grr lol but as long as i still have my sense of humer i think im doing ok. lol I have managed to cut out a few peices on the scroll saw which are waiting to be finished as well as a few other crafts.... but most of my time has been tring to get that arn cnc machine working!! so now im taking a break from it and i think i need to walking away from it for awhile so hopefuly when mark can have us come i'll be frish and ready to get this thing finally figured out. asides from that iv been working with my spical needs dog we got from the pound. they had to put her in a crate an cover it with a sheet so we could bring her home. then she spent the first week cowered in a corner of the crate trying to make herself as small as possable. i had to keep a leash on her so i could drag her out to the dog yard to go potty and then shed run right back into the crate as soon as i let her back in. slowly she started comming out (we kept the door opened) in the middle of the night when she though we were sleeping...and walking around a bit...then she started hidding under the couch....i figured well at least shes out of the crate. slowly i was able to sit closer and closer to her and eventualy my hand actualy touched her paw. poor girl almost jumped out of her skin!! but after just sitting there with my hand next to her for awhile she started sniffing my hand and then letting my hand touch her foot...until we worked up to my actualy being able to touch her and pet her. then it was time to attatch her to me with the training leash at first id sit on the couch and she only had to come out when i had to walk to the kitchen or down the hall onces she did ok with that we took her off the leash and she would come out from time to time to look around and sneak into the kitchen lol then we foloded up the bed poor girl felt totaly exposed. why she didnt retreat into the crate im not sure but i sat with her for a few days and slowly she started to relax.... long story well notshort as its to late for that lol my bonnie girl is now acting like a normal puppy here in the house and she comes to us asking to be petted and love and dosnt want us to stop lol i taught her to walk on the leash in the dog yard then the front yard and now we are walking around the neighborhood... i take sheba too. she was afraid of the walker at first but now shes an old pro lol shes such a smart dog she has learned so much in such a short time i started teaching her to sit last week and she already sits on command with out any prompting. Its a shame she would have made a fantastic service dog IF she hadnt of been so badly abused before we got her. but thats ok shes a wounderful addition to our family and im sure eventually she will o better when we have compeny. right now when we have compeny i need to sit on the floor right next to her she gets so scared she starts trembling.....but shes learning we've only encountered 2 other people when were walking but the second time she didnt try to crawl inside of me lol just got between my body and the inside of the walker lol im not sure whos teaching and helping who between the 2 dogs at this point....bonnie is getting protective of sheba and gos slow when were walking and sort of stops if she thinks sheba is getting to close to getting run over by the walker, notthat i would let that happen but its good to see bonnie doing it too...and she helps sheba find the door to come in from the dog yard. sheba is now competely blind but you would never know it when shes here in the house except at bedtime because i moved the bed and she still gos to where it used to be. well this is long sorry but thats what iv been up to

OUCH!!1 reminds of when spike was showing me how to use the table saw and telling what NOT to do as he proceded to DO what he had just TOLD ME NOT TO! and wound up cutting a big chuck out of his finger....but of course he refused to go get stitches .....i studyed to be a medical assistant but you didnt need that knowlage to know he needed stiches....so i cleaned it up, put alchoal on it ( i was out of hydrgin procide) and put some butterflys on it. macho man that he is he still went to the dollar store and got some hydren proxic before i had to change the butterflys. MEN!!1 and no i still havent been able to use the table saw he got me 2 years ago....hes afraid i'll get hurt... im going to tell him tomarrow that IF he dosnt cut some of the baltic burch ply wood i need for the backers of i think the 6 projects i have waiting for them im going to go out to the shed get the wood and cut it down to size myself!! iv been using power tools for like 30 years and have so far THANK GOD never gotten more then a knick here and there he darn near cuts his finger off and hes AFRAID IM going to HURT MYSELF? Now that iv said that dear God please take extera spical care so i dont wind up missing a diget or something. iv learned over the years that as soon as you say something like that your more likely to get a serious injury.....

nice

beautiful!!!

now that is awsome!!! it makes me want to get my segmente pattern book out and also try some of the mosaic patterns in the book i got for christmas!! none of them anywhre near beautiful as your fish@@

fantastic!!! what a wounderful way to make something different then the orginal pattern was for!!

stunning!! such beautiful work!!

beautiful work!!

stunning!!

fantastic!!!

cute!! lol

perfect!! you got him to a t!!

WOW!!! those are TERRIFIC!!