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The Coffee Shop / I am back!!
« on: August 08, 2014, 06:43:03 pm »
I have been on holiday for the past 6 weeks :) Was busy exploring new places and no connections most of the time. It is good to be home and getting a chance to catch up on the activities here. Highlight was catching a 12 Jack fish in Lac La Biche, Alberta. more to come on all of that. Now to get to work on all the patterns I have requested. ???

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Pattern Requests. / requesting some expert help
« on: August 08, 2014, 06:36:59 pm »
Attached is a picture or my friends grandaughter. As a favor i told him that I would a portrait of her, Well he showed uo tonight and wanted to know if I could have it ready for next week I told him it may not be possible then he showed me the picture, well what could I say to a face like that. Can one of you gifted pattern makers out work your magic for me. Thanks I will post a picture of the completed piece.

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The Coffee Shop / Happy Father's Day
« on: June 15, 2014, 07:05:42 am »
Happy Father's Day to all my friends out there in cyber land that fill the role of father. I hope you all have a great day.

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The Coffee Shop / another one
« on: June 09, 2014, 07:48:11 pm »
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/flight-through-iceberg-arch-captured-by-drone-1.2669252?cmp=fbtl. This one is about an hour from my home. I have to go and see it in person.

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The Coffee Shop / a few visitors
« on: June 09, 2014, 07:43:09 pm »
Thought I would share these incredible pictures of some icebergs that are sailing through our waters.

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Pattern Requests. / Looking for a special pattern.
« on: June 09, 2014, 07:31:17 pm »
Well I guess it is not special. It is not even good. But to survive as an insulin dependent type 1 diabetic for 56 years needs to be recognized. My wonderful wife was diagnosed when she was just 3 years old. She has learned and lives by the rule, " you control your diabetes or it controls you". I want to cut something very special for her. She works so hard at management and is an inspiration to others. I do know things could go haywire tomorrow morning so it is important that I get to work. Some things I would like to see could and I say (could include) you may know other things that would be suitable.
             the type1 diabetic ribbon
            The name Fredrick Banting
             An old type glass insulin needle
              A modern pump (animas) is the name of her pump.
               Our marriage date was 27/04/74
              A cross, because she has a deep faith
              The faces of two children, a boy and a girl. We had two children, we lost our girl as still born, she never got over that and our son is now 36. 19/09/74 under the girl and 21/05/77 under the boy.
               A heart with I love you of some sort or a heart with an arrow maybe with our marriage date , because she is my world. Any of you creating designers out there up to the challenge. By the way her name is Maryanna. But her initials are MAJD.. I am thinking that all of these life events would be intermingled, a person would need to study the piece to see all the info. Boy I am good at coming up with a plan but not a clue as to how to bring it together. I know this is a very tall order and I want to thank anyone who is brave enough to give it a shot. If you have ideas please share. Clyde


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The Coffee Shop / Any golfers out there?
« on: June 07, 2014, 07:10:02 pm »
Tiger Woods & Stevie Wonder are in a bar...
Tiger says Stevie, "How's the singing career going?"
Stevie replies, "Not too bad. How's the golf?"
...
Woods replies, "I've had some problems with my swing,
but I think I've got that right, now."
Stevie: "I always find that when my swing goes wrong,
I need to stop playing for a while and not think about it.
Then, the next time I play, it seems to be all right."
Incredulous, Tiger says, "You play GOLF?"
Stevie: "Yes, I've been playing for years."
Tiger: "But -- you're blind! How can you play golf if you can't see?"
Stevie: "Well, I get my caddy to stand in the middle of the fairway
and call to me. I listen for the sound of his voice and play the ball
towards him. Then, when I get to where the ball lands,
the caddy moves to the green or farther down the fairway and
again I play the ball towards his voice."
"But, how do you putt" asks Tiger.
"Well", says Stevie, "I get my caddy to lean down in front of the
hole and call to me with his head on the ground and I just play
the ball towards his voice."
Tiger: "What's your handicap?"
Stevie: "Well, actually -- I'm a scratch golfer."
Woods says to Stevie, "We've got to play a round sometime."
Stevie: "Well, people don't take me seriously, so I only play
for money, and never play for less than $10,000 a hole.
Is that a problem?"
Woods thinks about it and says, "I can afford that; OK,
I'm game for that.. $10,000 a hole is fine with me.
When would you like to play?"
Stevie: "Pick a night

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The Coffee Shop / Warning " coffee Alert" Warning, read at own risk
« on: June 03, 2014, 06:58:36 pm »
My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, and play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: ?Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet.?

So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom. It was one of those ?cold wax? kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off.

No mess, no fuss.

How hard can it be?

I mean, I?m not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. (YA THINK!?!)

So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. (?Cold wax,? yeah?right!)

I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull.

It works!

OK, so it wasn?t the best feeling, but it wasn?t too bad. I can do this! Hair removal no longer eludes me!

I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire.

With my next wax strip I move north after checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship.

I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet.

Using the same procedure, I apply the wax strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my hoo-ha and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek (it was a long strip) ..

I inhale deeply and brace myself?RRRRIIIPPP!!!!

I?m blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!?.OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!

Vision returning, I notice that I?ve only managed to pull off half the strip.

CRAP!

Another deep breath and RIPP!

Everything is spinning and spotted.

I think I may pass out?must stay conscious?must stay conscious.

Do I hear crashing drums???

Breathe, breathe?OK, back to normal.

I want to see my trophy ? a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip!

There?s no hair on it.

Where is the hair???

WHERE IS THE WAX???

Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip?it?s not! I touch. .. I am touching wax!!

I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG mistake?remember my foot is still propped upon the toilet? I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down.

Sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. Sealed shut!

I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself ?Please don?t let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off!?

What can I do to melt the wax?

Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!!

I?ll run the hottest water I can stand into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right???

*WRONG!!!!!!!*

I get in the tub ? the water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment ? I sit.

Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together, is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub?in scalding hot water.

Which, by the way, doesn?t melt cold wax.

So, now I?m stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cemented myself to the porcelain!! God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!!

I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It?s a very good conversation starter ?So, my butt and hoo-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!?

There is a slight pause.

She doesn?t know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, ?Are we talking cheeks or hole or hoo-ha??

She?s laughing out loud by now?I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box.

YEAH!!!!! Right!! I should be the joke of someone else?s night.

While we go through various solutions, I resort to trying to scrape the wax off with a razor. Nothing feels better than to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!!

By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I?m pretty sure I?m going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event.

My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace?.the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax.

What do I really have to lose at this point? I rub some on and ? OH MY GAWD!!!!!!! The scream probably woke the kids and scared the dickens out of my friend.

Its sooo painful, but I really don?t care.

?IT WORKS!!

It works!!? I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she hangs up. I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief and despair??

THE HAIR IS STILL HERE??.ALL OF IT!

So I recklessly shave it off.

Heck, I?m numb by now.

Nothing hurts.
I could have amputated my own leg at this point.

Next week I?m going to try hair color??

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The Coffee Shop / a little chuckle
« on: June 01, 2014, 06:03:18 pm »
A little boy was doing maths homework,
saying himself,2+5 the son of b!?$h is 7,
3+6 the son of b!?$h is 9,
His mother heard this and asked "What are you doing?"
Boy,"doing my maths homework"
Mom: and this is how your teacher taught you?

Boy: "Yes"

Infurriated,mother called the teacher:
Are you teaching maths to children by saying 2+2,
the son of b!?$h is 4?
Teacher started laughing and answered:
"what i taught them it was,2+2 THE SUM OF WHICH IS 4..."

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Brag Forum / my special piece
« on: May 23, 2014, 05:41:45 am »
Here is the finished piece of a pattern that that daveo supplied for me. Thanks daveo. "The insulator" is a piece that I did for my son for his birthday. it came from a great picture of him working on a dome structure.

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Intarsia / Beagle pup.
« on: May 22, 2014, 08:23:17 pm »
This is I did this past winter, I thought I had posted it but I guess not as I cannot find it on here. Made from cedar and popular. Pattern was one I found on a stained glass site that I visit from time to time.

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The Coffee Shop / monsters
« on: May 22, 2014, 08:14:09 pm »
these monsters are floating by our shoreline every day. Dear I say only in Newfoundland. The number of icebergs this year is unreal. Imagine they are ten times bigger underwater.

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The Coffee Shop / A night out.
« on: May 04, 2014, 07:28:52 pm »
Just read this one and had to share, really put a smile on my face!

Here's a Sunday night laugh...
We were dressed and ready to go out for a Dinner & Theatre evening.
We turned on a 'night light', turned the answering machine on, covered
our pet budgie and put the cat in the backyard.
We phoned the local taxi company and requested a taxi.
The taxi arrived, and we opened the front door to leave the house.
As we walked out the door, the cat we had put out in the yard scooted
back into the house.
We didn't want the cat shut in the house because she always tries to
get at the budgie.
My wife walked on out to the taxi, while I went back inside to get the
cat.
The cat ran upstairs, with me in hot pursuit.
Waiting in the cab, my wife didn't want the driver to know that the
house will be empty for the night so, she explained to the taxi driver
that I would be out soon. "He's just going upstairs to say good-by to my mother."
A few minutes later, I got into the cab. "Sorry I took so long," I
said, as we drove away. "That stupid b!?$h was hiding under the bed. I
had to poke her arse with a coat hanger to get her to come out. She
tried to take off, so I grabbed her by the neck. Then, I had to wrap
her in a blanket to keep her from scratching me. But it worked! I
hauled her downstairs and threw her out into the backyard!
She'd better not crap in the vegetable garden again!"
The silence in the Taxi was deafening.

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Pattern Requests. / Need a pattern
« on: April 16, 2014, 05:52:18 am »
I wanted to do something special for my son for his birthday. He is an insulator working in Alberta Here is a picture of him at a job. Looks scary, he is is the forefront. I am planning to make a lighted box with the light shining through the  fretwork. This type of job is not for the faint of heart. If you can please cut out the arm and the person standing in the background. Thanks in advance for your help.Thanks Clyde  

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The Coffee Shop / caption this
« on: April 09, 2014, 07:16:20 pm »
here is a challenge, write a caption for this photo. The prize will be great. You will all be winners and you earned a good chuckle at the comments.
Mine is, "Boy am I in trouble now!"

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