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  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,416 Championing
    edited May 15

    @loony … talent in those hands. And brain …

    @Mary_Scope … colouring can be so theraputic … and you kept in the lines 😋More than I can say for a lot drivers these days …

    I haven't done any woodwork for ages, hands are pretty wobbly lately and this idea came to me on a sleepless night. An old fencepost

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    Need to get a lampholder and cable, then another lamp to add to my collection. The knife block in the image is one I made from wood and epoxy resin

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  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 6,149 Online Community Team

    That is amazing @WelshBlue, you're so talented and I can see how this is therapeutic to do. 😊

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,416 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1125707#Comment_1125707

    It is therapeutic … creating something good from waste. A lot like my life 😂😁

    Speaking of salvaging rubbish … some tea light holders and a lamp from firewood. (My wife gave me 2 instructions before she went … hoover the kitchen of any sawdust … and don't hurt myself … not sure what she's implying 😉)

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  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 4,267 Championing

    Lovely work @WelshBlue

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,416 Championing

    Thanks @Bluebell21 … a few tweaks before they'll be allowed to live in the house 😋

  • Wilde9
    Wilde9 Community Member Posts: 2 Listener

    Hello 👋 I'm new here tonight, just joined and found this section regarding Art and Crafts which is wonderful idea .

    I'm a Painter/Artist and run a small Art group each week for local people who need more confidence in their lives and love art. I also exhibit my own Art ! Would love to see anyone's art here please 🙏

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 575 Empowering

    I needed something to cheer me up and recalled I hadn't finished the knitted flags yet. So I put the last ones on the line and this is what the garden looks like now:

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  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,070 Online Community Team

    Aww they look lovely @SmellyBin. It adds a lovely pop of colour. Shame the cat wasn't looking at the camera!

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 4,267 Championing

    They look lovely where you have put them @SmellyBin

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,991 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    Those pieces are amazing @WelshBlue, how long did it take you to make those? The finish on that lamp holder is so nice😍

    They're very pretty @SmellyBin and your cat in your photo really made me laugh, it looks like they are refusing to pose for the camera😂

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 575 Empowering

    Any spinners here?

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  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 14,594 Online Community Programme Lead
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1131843#Comment_1131843

    I'm not a spinner but great colourway @SmellyBin, I like the blue-grey gradient.

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 8,797 Online Community Team

    Those are lovely colours @SmellyBin! My mum spins on a wheel. Having had a small go, it's such a meditative thing to do. She's even done the whole process from the freshly cut fleece to carding it, spinning it, then knitting it into a jumper. She's just getting into natural dyes too so she can dye her wool with things she grows in the garden. Very cool.

    Do you have an idea of what you'll make once you've spun it all?

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 575 Empowering

    Yeah @Rosie_Scope something about spinning is very tactile and also almost addictive just for being in that flow. I haven't spun for months and it was so nice to be right at it again.

    Oooh, natural dyes are so fun to play with, I had a go at it years back. Has she tried solar dye yet? This is practically the same, but without it heating a kettle or pan. Instead you just put everything in a jar and let the sun take care of it.

    What I am spinning is a large project to hopefully one day have a cardigan and matching cowl. I started it over two years ago and don't think I've spun half of it. But who knows… now that I've got the hang of it again.

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,416 Championing

    Finally finished a labour of love … well someone elses love … it's a wedding gift on request

    Melting in the heat bodily, which also caused no end of problems with the epoxy resin … 3/4 handed because of a cast on one hand and the 'good one' a bit dodgy. It's turned out pretty good I think ? But Jeez it's killed me mentally and physically

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    @Santosha12 … I'll finally have time to reply and listen to that music you posted 😚

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Posts: 4,536 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1134166#Comment_1134166

    Wow that's a beautiful piece of furniture. Is it oiled or waxed, it's just lovely, what a gift, well done you 👏🫠😊 @WelshBlue.

    Oooh think a lot of it was '70's 😁but 'Get Back' is one of the best, the Beatles last, impromptu performance I think on their Apple rooftop in London. Some of the bystanders/office workers are entertaining 🫠😊 wish I'd been their! Take care and hope you can have a rest, today and tomorrow are the red alert for your area I think.

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,416 Championing

    Thanks @Santosha12 … technically it's oiled and waxed … it's a hardwax oil. It goes on liquid and then you can buff it up after building up layers. It makes it a lot more durable compared to conventional wax. It's used a lot on flooring

    I like to use the Japanese art of burning the wood (Shou Sugi Ban ), add a stain and then hard wax oil. With a few drops of sweat this week 🤣

    They'll either love it or sell it 🤔

    At the risk of being lynched … I've never gotten the hype over The Beatles. Or The Stones if I'm honest

    My next few days are rest, rest, painkillers and catching up online 😉

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Posts: 4,536 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1134262#Comment_1134262

    Sounds like a lot of patience is needed to do that! I wondered if the epoxy resin doesn't smell very strongly. In this heat I can't even burn candles or use my sage 🙄.

    I've only got one Beatles CD, that particular song (on the CD) has got a sound in it, quite high pitched, maybe 4 times, I don't know what the instrument is but my yorkie Jack used to love it. I might have to Google that but there's a small handful of their songs that I liked, Hey Jude I like but couldn't listen to them too much.

    Have a good, well-deserved rest and take care.

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,416 Championing

    @Santosha12 not so much patience as timings. The heat and humidity caused me so many problems I had to Google to sort out.

    The resin is very low VOC … I learned the hard way of fumes … never buy the cheaper stuff. Smelled it and heard about it for days 😃

    An experiment with an old silver birch log and resin. Spray varnish not hardwax oil on this one. It really makes the epoxy 'pop'

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  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 575 Empowering

    Wowsers @WelshBlue that is awesome, great stuff 🖤

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