Some Progress

I have made a bit of progress in the packing up of my shop. Now the problem is I still have no room as I have traded the clutter for a pile of packed boxes that are in my way as well. Over Christmas I will take apart a couple of benches that I don't need and that will give me room to work for a couple of more months without tripping over everything.

No house hunting at the moment as we are having a break from it over Christmas. Our estate agent here is in Arizona until February so we will put our house on the market then. Lots to do to get it all spruced up for that and a lot of of it can't be done until the snow goes away so we will see what happens.

Merry Christmas All,

I do hope 2010 is a good year for all of you,

Tom

Not Much Going On

There is not a lot going on here at the moment. With the temps down around -30 to -40c, it is too cold to be in the shop even though there is a heater in there. I have managed a bit of cleanup and some packing of non essential items, but that is it.

We have stopped looking for a new place to live until the new year. It is just too frustrating to find an interesting one and try and get more details only to find the seller is on holiday. Nothing much can be done this time of year anyway so we are giving ourselves a break.

My hand is constantly improving after the boiling water incident and another week should see it all better.

That is it for now. Stay warm, dry and safe everyone,

Tom

Something Different

Enough of the white stuff ... and finally something mini related. My wife wanted to play with some stone so she rummaged through the scrap box, found a piece that interested her, and came up with this ...



She has never done anything with stone before or even touched any of the tools she used. I showed her what each one did and away she went. Other than a bit of instruction, she did the whole thing on her own.

I think she did a lovely job for her first effort.

The piece is for a miniature garden we are making and it is made of Brazillian Soapstone.

Tom

Anybody Want Some Snow?

The good news is they are doing the road ...



But as you can see in the pic, it is snowing pretty hard again!!

It's Beginning To Look ....

An awful lot like winter around here! My neighbor had to shovel the snow away from my door so I could go out and do the driveway. That is done now, but I can't go anywhere as the snow is 5 feet deep in some spots on the road do to the high winds. I will be in the shop all day it looks like!

Oh Ya ... there was no snow here on Thursday!



Merry Christmas!!

Never A Dull Moment

Well, I have been up to my usual tricks trying to destroy my body. You would think that since I make my living with my hands that I would take good care of them. Nope ... not me. They are constantly scared or covered with bandaids. This time I have done a pretty good job. The other morning at 4am, I was making a cup of tea. For whatever reason, I poured the boiling water on my hand instead of the tea pot. Hmmmm Not reccomended in the manual. Hopefully when the new skin shows up, some of the old scars will be gone!

Guess the Tudor house will have to wait some more.

I don't know if I mentioned before but we will be moving in the spring. Not one to do things by half, it will be a move about half way across the country to Ontario. They have trees there ... trees mean wood ... lot's of wood! I like wood. They have large mosquitos there too, but that is another story.

Tom

Something To Try

Yesterday the mail man presented me with a package from England that I have been waiting for. I ordered some dry transfer paper that goes through any printer. I will be experimenting with this soon. It opens up a lot of possibilities for sure. I do have a couple of ideas for this product and I'm sure more will present themselves once I get working with it.

Once I figure it all out, I will give my opinions here.

I need to figure out a couple of more details, but the live shop web cam is getting closer to a reality. I have done a couple of broadcasts now and they work OK, but I need to iron out a glitch or two.

Tom