I cherish the memories

I`d wake up on Sunday morning to the smell of Mom cooking the new clock.....


No wait! thats me.

I had a problem with protecting the wood I had cut. I use clear coats or sealers but in the winter, they dry so slow. So I had the the idea of baking the wood finish.

Well, don`t that make the house smell good? And dont forget them, wood is a bit flammable.

First couple I tried turned out good, then the one I wanted to look good, I baked say a little too long? Thank God for sandpaper... lesson learned?


I`m thinking of a toy bake oven with the light bulb, think i`ll build a slow cook box...

Not kidding,
next time

My freakin heads gonna pop

I was planning all year to give 2 of my best friends (a couple) a great Christmas gift this year. I even knew I wanted to do something in wood for them and only for them. Something special. Well tonight I think I did it.

I had ideas of things to do but it wasnt until tonight that everything came together. After a few hours of daydreaming watching mindless TV, I realized a pattern, and I sketched it. I can see it, I think they`d love it!

Now just a lot more planning and patterning. Cut the 3 mediums i`m thinking of, assemble, oh and finish all the other projects, all before Dec 20/06 HAHAHAHAHAHA ya right




However I seem to be going against a big rule I have. I don`t like to repeat myself, in all aspects of life. Yet I created a pattern that is new to me and i`ve never seen one like it b4, but I am incorporating a couple of images into it that I have used b4 but not in the same mediums or aspects.

So therefore I hope I am doing something original for 2 of my best friends. I`ll post and update, I don`t have much time to do this...

Glass runneth over....

Ok, should be cup, and I don`t speaketh that way anyway...


I`ve learned how to cut glass now (self taught so probably pissin everyone who actually knows how to do it, off)

Hey thats different! I cut the glass, usually it`s the other way around!


Took me a bit, but I guessed my problem was I was afraid the glass would be too fragile. It can be, but you gotta know how far you can push it. I have a little background knowledge of steel, wood and glass... and a couple other things, so I took a leap of faith...

I`m ready for the next stage (actually I tried the first stage already, this was the second stage but the first first stage didn`t work cuz the sandblaster I bought was a POS so now the second stage is the new first stage and the first first stage is the second stage. Geeze, I should vent the shop when I`m using solvents)

put out the flames

Tada!

Oh man, flames are everywere....

What happens when you take one of best hockey teams in the NHL, probably THE BEST in Canada...




And design a portrait of one of the best PLAYERS in world ...











I`ll show you next time... I love it... gonna cut it.

Tool time

You know, I used to watch the show Tool Time and best part of the show was Tim`s beefed up tools and appliances.
What my point? Well I ran into a snag with my wood working. The throat on my drill press is now too small for a lot of the work i`m doing. At first I was kicking myself for not buying the best of the best right off the start, and I realized by looking around, a "better" drill press would still have the limited throat.
So here I was figuring out how to make my hand held drill act as a large yet still accurate drill press of sorts. And it came to me. I can make my existing drill press INTO SOMETHING BIGGER and BETTER!
Then I actually grunted when I realized how I could do it....

Dogs dont buy insurance....

I made an amazing obsevation tonight. I came upstairs and was heading thru the kitchen to get to the living room, along the way, my dog is eating her supper (in the kitchen). She sees me coming out of the corner of her eye, gives her tail a big wag, then side steps to the left to let me passs her into the kitchen, all of this without once ever picking her head out of the dish or a slightest pause from chowing down, the then gives her tail another big wag, and side steps to the right to let me pass thru into the living room, again not a single missed crunch. And I didnt have to say or gesture a thing.

Amazing right? Not really? Well 20 minutes before this, I was standing in line at a insurance place. After some time, one of the staff members finally notices that there is a line up and only one person working. Finally another spot opens up on the counter, but before I can get there, this idiot at the counter is blocking my way, I say excuse me, nothing. The employee asked him to move, he grunts and takes a step to the side, completely blocking me. Now finally another register opens up but I`m not next in line now, I`m dancing with this bozo.

It dawns on me tonight when I finally get to sit down in my chair in the living room. My Dog has more common sence ........


Then there`s irony. I was on my way to get plates (auto insurance) and some idiot decides to do a lane change in an intersection. Good thing I was awake, then he flips me off.......

And then, while i`m thinking of writing this, I`m watching Corner Gas and Hank is bloggin, thats it, i`m not doin this anymore.....

I`ve learned over the years...

I`ve learned a few things. Stubborn as I am....

I sometimes (ya i know, I had to stop cuzz I was laughin so hard too, take your time) I get sidetracked. I`ve learned, get ready kids, there is a reason I stop a project. Don`t matter what it is... if I suddenly stop it, its for a reason.
Others may think I got lazy, what I got was overthinkin it.

And then it happens. Wait long enough and sometimes it happens. No I`m not saying someone else finishes your job for you, I`m sayin you take it to another level.


Yep. Thats right. You`v e done it too.

Was gonna do a scroll of the pro team in my home area, the riders. Then I thought and thought and it got parked. Then it dawned on me, I should do it as a Intarsia project, redesigned it and almost put it on the board, but it got parked.
Well hallejuia, I`m so glad I didnt do anything yet. I got it. instead of intarsia, scroll the frame, fret the bottom half and etch the top into a mirror.

And I`m OFF.....!!!!!!!!

Too many ideas

Hear the saying "Too many cooks spoil the broth" well... to many ideas can royaly screw you up too.


I have so many new ideas and not the time to do them.

I had a great night last night. Friend helped me out big time with a pattern. And then I realized how awesome I could change the wood and create the frame.... Was gonna go buy the stuff I needed today but I didnt feel well today and hope i`ll go tommorow.

Finished a few more projects, I`m not putting them here or my website for a reason. Someday they`ll get there.

Wow, I havn`t worked on the website in weeks... oh well, no one actualy sees this anyway.