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

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!!

jonny come lately here lol but i think you did a great job!!! it looks lovely!! like the easel to

that is simple awsome and fantastic!! you did a wounderful job on it!! and congradulations on not breaking any of the wiskers!!

lol your welcomed. Im kind of real into recycling. one of the things that keeps me out of my wood shop as much as id like to be is making plarn. its a plastic yarn you make out of plastic bags....then you can use it to crochet all sorts of things!! I have a huge bag of plastic bags in the gragrae just waiting to be made into plarn then crocheted into other things lol thats why you dont see me posting a lot of projects....i split my time between woodworking knitting crocheting machine emboridy sewing and plastic canvas...... i THINK thats the whole list lol and im also trying to learn how to use my cnc machine and slowly gitting all the supplys i need to make expoy resin mols and if i can ever get spike to get me some plaster of pairs i can use my other molds with that. lol always so much to do and never enough time to them all !! i also have a 3d printer i want to learn how to use IF i ever get the cnc machine up and running. snow....well we havent gotten to much snow here lately..just some light dusting, no more then 2 or 3 inches.... it makes spike and i laugh though as they have closed the schools sighting bad weather we look out the windos and say where is it? lol things have changed since we were kids a lot!! wed have snow above our knees and sub zero temps and we STILL HAD TO GO TO SCHOOL lol now a days your lucky if you get enough snow to make a snowman let alone a decent snow fort for snowball fights lol but becareful what you wish for... you could wind up getting a blizzard next winter lol those are always fun lol

well i have no idea who bill and bob are but you did a supper fantastic job on the cutting!!! i think there both great!!!

lol ahh the wounderful world of scrolling!! lol im glad im not the only one who breaks and saves scroll saw blades. lol I often use the broken blades in my craft projects. for instance when i made the small 3d modle of paul bunin I used a broken peice of scroll saw blade with 2 small pices of wood on each end to make a saw , then I put a small twig across 2 pieces of dowl and inbeded the saw into the twig. with the small compound cut or carving patterns they can be used in several different ways...I have used them to make the spikes on the backs small compound cut dragons . by making a small slit in the back of the dragon I can slide the flat part of the blade into the grove and once painted it makes the spikes on the dragons back. they can also be used is layered picture patterns as grass the bigger the teeth on the broken blade the higher the grass will be, this helps give the picture more of a 3d effect. you could also us them as the runners on small skates and sleds....you just inbed the side with the teeth into the wood so that the flat piece is visable. its kind of cheating in way i guess because it saves me from having to cut those kind of pieces out of wood. yea i know im a strange creature who does strange things but as long as it works lol besides its a great way to recycle the blades. lol

like everyone else that turned out great!!!

beathing taking she will just love it!!!

fantastic!!! your well on your way now!!!

simply breath taking!! I love alll the complex patterns all of you do!! now what grade of bbplywood do you use? or what kind of wood

wounderful! I loce them both

I love them both!! can I ask where you got the pattern? Spike loves trains and id love to make something like that for his birthay in may.

great job!! i love them both!