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Quarantine Week #1

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Last week or two, I've been working on Easter Items, in hopes of selling them. The yellow and pink tulips (below) didn't last but a minute on the shelf. Well, when our illustrious so-called governor, Queen Whit-b*tch called for the shutdown of our state, I went from working Monday & Friday with Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from home, to working all week remotely. Eh - not complaining. I wanted time off, just not this way...

Being in Facilities, I take calls and work orders (on line) to have work done around campus. Well, no one is on campus :lol: needless to say, there's no work orders! I'm still responsible for the payroll of my skilled trades guys, and other small tasks, so I go through the motions of checking our work order system, and when it's empty, oh well.... I go through and take care of the hours for my guys.

Anyway, so the week before our Great Quarantine, I showed you guys the plastic egg bunnies, I ended up making a smaller one to hold a Cadbury Egg for a co-worker, and a couple tulips that would hold the plastic eggs. (I only have 50 eggs left to make something to hold them.... UGH lol)

While I was making/cutting the flowers, I put Ken to task of starting some of the storage/organizing that I've been impatiently wanting forever. The first one was part one of the clamp storage. (Kept him busy for at least little bit...)

Finally, this past week (started Tuesday or Wednesday) I started the yard decorations for our place. I found the idea on Pinterest (damn that site!) and got all the pieces done and put in the yard today. The smallest of the eggs was supposed to be part of another decoration, but it turned out to be too small, so Ken through a metal stake in it, and put it out to the yard. *shrug*

What will Week #2 bring? I guess we'll find out. Ken wants to start on the Summer projects that we want to make to sell (if we ever get out of this quarantine). I still have Easter items I want to make, but Ken is anxious to get moving forward, so I guess I'll do them in between what he wants to get done. I have a couple I'm still in the middle of doing (needs painting/faces, etc) but for the most part I've at least cut all my Easter stuff.

Hope everyone is healthy; keep safe, busy, and stay well.
 

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#3 ·
Not really, but thanks. My signs aren't creating any business right now, so figured I would stretch my blades/patterns a bit.
 
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I am also working from home...

No one over 70 is allowed to leave home except for essential matters.

Only on 2nd week and I think cabin fever is going to get me before Corvid19....
 
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Our entire state is quarantined to home except for essential matters (food, etc) We can go outside, but no unnecessary travel allowed.
 
#5 ·
Keepin' busy is good...nice stuff...especially love your "1 fer two ain't bad"...LOL...
 
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Thank you, Jessie, yes I did scroll them (for the most part). Ken used the jig saw to rough cut out the bigger pieces. The tulips and small bunnies are all scroll.

As for the patterns, the bunnies that hold the eggs are a 3D printer file. https://www.thingiverse.com/ free to join, and many files are free to download. (I've made a few things from that site, now.) I had to make it to a 2D to be able to cut them, and tinker with it, until I could get them to hold the size eggs I wanted. (STILL messing with that; it's frustrating when your program claims you're at "this size" but when you get it printed and cut, it's wrong...)

The bunny and egg yard ornaments, well, I got the idea off Pinterest, and the person on Etsy luckily posted a picture of the back side of the rabbit, so I was able to crop out the shape and copy it into my own program, creating my pattern. Mine is bigger than the one for sale on Etsy, as are my eggs. The tulips and other bunnies are also from ideas I found on Pinterest; just went and found my own outline, and made modifications to how I wanted them to look. (Faces, ears, etc.)

I have (I think) two (2) maybe three (3) more patterns that are in their finishing stages; one is a white version of the chocolate bunny, and the other is a mimic of a bunny that wayfair, or some company like that has for sale on line. Of course, I had to make my own modifications; (face, hands, feet, and egg colors/design). Worst part is coming up with egg decorations. I ended up leaving the outdoor eggs solid colors, and my daughter says: "You didn't decorate the eggs?!" I told her "I asked you if I should decorate the eggs, and you didn't say anything, so I left them." She was bummed. She says "I didn't hear you ask me that" "Yup. I did."
 
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Hi Barb, your stuff looks great! My state (NC) has pretty much shut down as well, but since I've been working from home for almost six years, it's nothing new for me. My wife got furloughed from her job (part-time in the accounting dept at a nation restaurant chain). She does make jewelry (chainmaille, steampunk, and out of old silver-plate silverware), so she's trying some new ideas and such right now. All of the spring vendor events that she participates in have been canceled, so she can work at it without any pressure at all.
 
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Barb,

You can pump the parts out faster with a CNC......... had to say that.

Be nice to our guv -- Miss Half Whit. She's in over her head and doesn't have a clue what she's doing or how the game is played. It's still the us versus them political thing - not what's best for the states and country.

Wood's not going to spoil so you got a start for next year if this thing lingers - which it appears to be doing.
 
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Of course you did... :lol:

As for giving Half-Whit a break; nothin' doin'. She's trying a bunch of under-handed tricks to give herself more power to get money from us; and that's just the tip of the iceberg. She announced March 11 In her State of the State address, she would borrow $3.5 billion without taxpayer or legislative approval. That's not including the 1.5 billion progressive tax hike bill that thankfully, got shelved because 10,000 of us signed a petition to stop it.

If your on FB, check out Mighty Michigan. They keep up on Gov. Half-Whit. Just a thought. Ever since the Dem's got more worried about Trump than the condition of our country, I've gotten very skeptical, and leery of the politicians.

Okay I'm off my soapbox now. Stay well.
 
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#33 ·
Barb's color scheme's are outstanding too...
 
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#27 ·
Dissing? Huh, thought I was saying "I"didn't like either one
 
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Exactly. You don't like them, but you'll take it now that you see the end result - So technically, you aren't getting it from me, you got it from Pinterest/Etsy. >:) Just you remember that next time you diss Pinterest/Etsy; because you like them well enough to get the pattern second hand, you just can't be "seen" getting one from there >:)
 
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ROFL it's a duck Easter "basket" that I made as a little girl. The body is a Styrofoam "basket" covered in green feathers, and the head is also Styrofoam, with the eyes glued on, and pink pipe cleaners folded as its' beak stuck in the head. It was a kit in the mid 70's, I think. Mom made small bunny baskets for her and dad, and I made the "Duck" basket.
 
#32 ·
Nope, still dislike them. So I avoid them when I can, pinterest still pops up once in awhile, no matter what I do to avoid it. But if someone else comes up with a picture from one of them, and I can do something with it, then sure, I'll use it. But I gave up looking on either long ago.
 
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So you'll filtch off others diligent searching (AND their rewards for their efforts) because You "gave up looking long ago." Guess the real story here, is, you claim "I don't like them I don't need them" when in fact, you don't know how to utilize the tool, so you scream useless, because it didn't come from your resources; The fact that you'll talk bad about those sites, but you'll grab ideas that others got from there.... *smh* Whatever, Theo. Subject closed.
 
#39 ·
Yeah, they have some seriously detailed designs, that's for sure. Wasn't sure I wanted to go through all that :lol: I ended up looking at regularly colored and found a couple that had colors, but the design wasn't too complicated.
 
#44 ·
@JOAT Whatever; and that isn't the point. What you do or don't do to make it different is insignificant to me; and yes you did know where it came from, because I stated I found it on Pinterest. You don't like where I get my ideas from; so you can skip over my posts any time. It won't hurt my feelings one bit; Either way it goes, lay off where people get their ideas (just because you can't understand how to maneuver the posts.) That's your problem, not anyone else's.
 
#45 ·
Don't worry about it. Been pondering a complex project for some months, suddenly just came to me how to turn it into a K.I.S.S project, and only need to cut one circle. Five minutes, or less, on minor details, and good to go.
 
#46 · (Edited)
Don't worry about it.
Did I say I was worried? I'm not. Trust me. What I said is you can skip my posts. You won't hurt my feelings. Especially since my ideas come from an "undesirable" place, according to you.
 
#53 ·
good book...
the wife tormented me w/ it...
 
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