FH came home after the second day of this month's hunter safety education class. Everyone passed again, which is good. It's scary how simple the test for the course really is. Common sense can do alot to carry you through it.
The rain poured down today so he didn't have a chance for some archery practice today. I doubt the wind would have allowed for it anyway. His next respite from work comes in two weeks. The primitive bow meet will be out at Dixon Mounds again. Then the next hunter safety class is the first weekend of April.
The Long Rifle meeting today went well. FH brought home more dates for Camp set up. I have to get some patterns pieces together for our new clothes. I'm modeling FH's clothing after Col. Brandon in the BBC's new Sense and Sensibility. His boots will have to be tall mocs until we can set aside the money for period calvalry boots. I still only have a vague idea of what I will be wearing, but his clothes will take longer. Double-breasted waistcoat with hand sewn buttonholes. I must love him. Ugh.
We still have quite a bit of equipment to gather before we can do much in the way of camping with the group. One of FH's friends is arranging for us to borrow a wigwam large enough to hold a full size bed and a wood burning stove. In theory my back might tolerate the set up. The boys are looking into period approprite canes for me. Isn't that crazy? I'm not even 30 yet and I may need a cane. Ugh. We'll know more after the MRI.
Showing posts with label hunter safety. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Projects evolve...
Projects have a way of evolving without me even thinking about it. It can result from random, unrelated statements made by other people or even me seeing a different commercial on T.V. This time it's born of my desire to keep dust and the three cats out of the Shabby Chic room.
This workshop was designed and taught by the lovely Joyce Mori, who is a contributer to American Miniaturist magazine.For the record Joyce is a wonderful teacher and is incredibly creative. The five people who took the class all had a great time and are looking forward to it again.
The setting itself is a room with three walls and a floor. No top, no plexi-glass on the 4th side. This design would be fine if I had a curio cabinet that could hold several settings of similar size. But sadly I am not that fortunate yet. Someday perhaps...
Here's the setting sans furniture. The window was not part of the original project. There was a window dressing attached to the wall , but nothing behind it. That didn't sit well in my mind. I kept wanting to see something behind the curtains. I debated between a window or a door with an "Employees Only" sign on it.
The window won because I keep toying with the idea of transforming the entire setting from a shop into a bedroom. But I really don't know if I will or not. At the very least I can create more depth with something beyond the window.
Thus again I come to the issue of dust and helpful kitties. A while back there was a project by Joanne Swanson in Dollhouse Miniatures that involved using two hat boxes to create a room. I've started looking for hexagonal hatboxes or decorative storage boxes to make a more cat-proof covering. I will have to sojourn to Peoria to look for a nice selection, since I don't know of many places to find nice hat boxes where I live.
What I am going to do in my next post is put up pictures of the acceossires and furniture from the workshop and then the pictures with the items I added from my own stash. I want to really make sure I can show the original workshop was much more than three walls and a floor.
FH has been sick. So until he's a bit better I won't have a chance to really get things finished. I did work on everything this weekend with my friend, but on Sunday we were working in the break room of a Christmas tree farm that was not well heated. The paint and glue were definately unhappy with us, so our drying times were affected and our productivity was affected. Not to mention that it was bloody cold for our fingers. By the time the Hunter Safety class that FH was teaching ended and the MVLR (Mackinaw Valley Long-Rifles) meeting was over my back was in screaming pain. Between the cold and the chair I was sitting in, my nerves and muscles were less than happy and I could feel the ache in my vertebrae.
Fortunately I was able to still walk and keep some semblence of balance when it was time to finally go home. I did decide that if it's still this cold in March for our meeting I am going to skip it and let FH fill me in after. Normally it wouldn't be bad except for the inadvertant overlap with the Hunter Safety class. The class is always packed and they are in the room with the woodstove. In retrospect it's probably why FH is under the weather. We were in the cold for about six hours Sunday. It was much nicer for him during the longer section of the class on Saturday. To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, spina bifida is "a bit of buggery."
This workshop was designed and taught by the lovely Joyce Mori, who is a contributer to American Miniaturist magazine.For the record Joyce is a wonderful teacher and is incredibly creative. The five people who took the class all had a great time and are looking forward to it again.
The setting itself is a room with three walls and a floor. No top, no plexi-glass on the 4th side. This design would be fine if I had a curio cabinet that could hold several settings of similar size. But sadly I am not that fortunate yet. Someday perhaps...
Here's the setting sans furniture. The window was not part of the original project. There was a window dressing attached to the wall , but nothing behind it. That didn't sit well in my mind. I kept wanting to see something behind the curtains. I debated between a window or a door with an "Employees Only" sign on it.
The window won because I keep toying with the idea of transforming the entire setting from a shop into a bedroom. But I really don't know if I will or not. At the very least I can create more depth with something beyond the window.Thus again I come to the issue of dust and helpful kitties. A while back there was a project by Joanne Swanson in Dollhouse Miniatures that involved using two hat boxes to create a room. I've started looking for hexagonal hatboxes or decorative storage boxes to make a more cat-proof covering. I will have to sojourn to Peoria to look for a nice selection, since I don't know of many places to find nice hat boxes where I live.
What I am going to do in my next post is put up pictures of the acceossires and furniture from the workshop and then the pictures with the items I added from my own stash. I want to really make sure I can show the original workshop was much more than three walls and a floor.
FH has been sick. So until he's a bit better I won't have a chance to really get things finished. I did work on everything this weekend with my friend, but on Sunday we were working in the break room of a Christmas tree farm that was not well heated. The paint and glue were definately unhappy with us, so our drying times were affected and our productivity was affected. Not to mention that it was bloody cold for our fingers. By the time the Hunter Safety class that FH was teaching ended and the MVLR (Mackinaw Valley Long-Rifles) meeting was over my back was in screaming pain. Between the cold and the chair I was sitting in, my nerves and muscles were less than happy and I could feel the ache in my vertebrae.
Fortunately I was able to still walk and keep some semblence of balance when it was time to finally go home. I did decide that if it's still this cold in March for our meeting I am going to skip it and let FH fill me in after. Normally it wouldn't be bad except for the inadvertant overlap with the Hunter Safety class. The class is always packed and they are in the room with the woodstove. In retrospect it's probably why FH is under the weather. We were in the cold for about six hours Sunday. It was much nicer for him during the longer section of the class on Saturday. To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, spina bifida is "a bit of buggery."
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