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Drubunneh

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Re: What Does The Fox Say?
« Reply #15 on: July 05, 2014, 01:12:39 pm »
It needs to be about...20% cooler :-P

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Autographs Collection - John Travolta
« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2014, 04:41:35 pm »
Back in February I also wrote to John Travolta, because my grandmother adores him, and I figured an autographed photo of her idol would be a good 86th birthday gift for her. So on the letter I mentioned my family had been fans of his and oh by the way could I have an autograph for my grandmother?

Well, today I got in the mail the photo I sent him, and three others!


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Re: What Does The Fox Say?
« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2014, 04:47:13 pm »
It needs to be about...20% cooler :-P


...better?  :)

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Re: What Does The Fox Say?
« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2014, 12:02:56 pm »
I suppose so :-P

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Autographs Collection - Penn & Teller
« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2014, 04:27:52 am »
And I got a Penn and Teller autograph! Weeee!


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Mahogany Dice
« Reply #20 on: July 30, 2014, 04:51:15 pm »
  Tye wanted us to work on a project together! So.... we took some hunk of mahogany I had lying around (bought it ages ago because it was too good of a deal but never had anything in mind to do with it), and made a bunch of dice from a piece of it!

  We made these because we are currently flat-out broke, but we wanted to play a dice game. So what do you do when you want to play dice and have no money to buy dice but have exotic hardwoods and a workshop full of tools at your disposal? You make your own dice!  ;)



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Basswod Cat Statue
« Reply #21 on: August 23, 2014, 03:31:10 pm »
I've been working on and off on this for over 2 years. Last night I decided it was time to finish it at last, so I took the night off from everything else to finish this wooden stylized cat statue!



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Yard Sale
« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2014, 07:00:43 pm »
In case anyone wondered where I've been all weekend, well, folks here decided to have a yard sale. The attics were overfilled with stuff, closets were overfilled with stuff, stuff stuff stuff everywhere, so it was time for it to go, and in true American fashion, Tye's mom decided she was going to inconvenience everyone to help her have a yard sale.

So we've been back and forth getting crap down from the attic, cleaning and organizing and pricing everything, and finally, we spent all night setting it all up outside for sale.

And apparently yard sales need to start early in the morning. So, after spending literally all night setting everything up, we 'opened' at 8am.


I took a panoramic photo right as the sun was coming up. Stuff, stuff everywhere!

And right on time a mariachi of Mexicans (wolves are a pack, cattle is herd, and we say a group of Mexicans is a mariachi  ;)  ) showed up and bought a bunch of stuff. Then some old people showed up, and then more Mexicans. And more Mexicans! Thank-gods for Mexicans! I love them, they buy in bulk!

Sales were Ok Saturday! The Mexicans took most of the furniture items (thankfully!). We're hoping to sell a bunch more Sunday, specially after noon with all the church-going people being out and about. But there is so much stuff that I doubt we'll sell it all. So what doesn't sell Sunday will either be donated to the Salvation Army or something, and whatever isn't donatable will be burned in a glorious bonfire!  :D

So yeah. Yard sale. Ergk. So much work! The lesson here is: Don't be a hoarder! If it's of no value and you won't ever use it, give it away or throw it away, don't stash it up in an attic!


What you see in the photos is about 2/3 of what's still left in the house.  :P 

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Autographs Collection - Ozzy Osbourne
« Reply #23 on: September 30, 2014, 10:16:13 pm »
Today I got one from the prince of darkness himself, Ozzy!
I had sent him a nice pretty photo, but he sent me back one of their stock photos or something. Either way, it's authentic, so, I got an Ozzy autograph, I'm happy with it!  :)


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Oops!
« Reply #24 on: October 18, 2014, 08:00:45 pm »
I need to get this on record, because I'm both amused and really mad at myself! But first let me explain where I'm coming from: When you work with precious metals, or precious woods, you really can't afford to make mistakes! I've enjoyed a mistake-free career since I started serious woodworking projects and jewelry-making for years! As a perfectionist, I'm obsessed with not making mistakes while I build things, because mistakes can be very costly, or even dangerous and get me hurt!

Well, today I made a mistake! A stupid, idiotic, moronic, dumb mistake! 20 years from now I'll still be kicking myself because of it!

I'm making some new tables here, and I got carried away making table legs! I needed 8 legs (2 tables, 4 legs each), but somehow I made 16! I spent the whole day making legs until late in the afternoon I looked at the pile of legs I made and thought "hold on a second...!".

AAAARGGHHH!!!!

...I wasted so much damn wood! I'm gonna go punish myself by eating a bunch of donuts and turning my blood into sludge!

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Re: Oops!
« Reply #25 on: October 18, 2014, 10:29:13 pm »
I need to get this on record, because I'm both amused and really mad at myself! But first let me explain where I'm coming from: When you work with precious metals, or precious woods, you really can't afford to make mistakes! I've enjoyed a mistake-free career since I started serious woodworking projects and jewelry-making for years! As a perfectionist, I'm obsessed with not making mistakes while I build things, because mistakes can be very costly, or even dangerous and get me hurt!

Well, today I made a mistake! A stupid, idiotic, moronic, dumb mistake! 20 years from now I'll still be kicking myself because of it!

I'm making some new tables here, and I got carried away making table legs! I needed 8 legs (2 tables, 4 legs each), but somehow I made 16! I spent the whole day making legs until late in the afternoon I looked at the pile of legs I made and thought "hold on a second...!".

AAAARGGHHH!!!!

...I wasted so much damn wood! I'm gonna go punish myself by eating a bunch of donuts and turning my blood into sludge!

Well, I did ask you to make me some tables! :D
But on a different note, you could use the legs to make a bed or a couple chairs maybe.

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Re: Oops!
« Reply #26 on: October 18, 2014, 11:06:57 pm »
Well, I did ask you to make me some tables! :D
But on a different note, you could use the legs to make a bed or a couple chairs maybe.

*points finger accusingly* ...this was your fault! You and your request for tables!  ;)

I don't know what I'll do with them. I'll find some use even if it's bit by bit on other projects.

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Re: What Does The Fox Say?
« Reply #27 on: October 19, 2014, 12:05:27 am »
make dice out of them! :3

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Happy Spider-Filled Birthday to Me!
« Reply #28 on: October 23, 2014, 02:45:37 pm »
So my excuse for not doing anything today was that there was a giant spider on my backyard....


...also it's my birthday! Yay!  :)

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Re: What Does The Fox Say?
« Reply #29 on: October 23, 2014, 10:28:46 pm »
"We are nothing but pawns in the world, in this  world that is nothing but a game. Our actions, our fates are bound decided by the game, we move because the game commands us to do so. Only the players know what faith will befall us for we signify nothing but strategic movements." Valencia Versthaler