Good evening!
I was going through some old pictures today with the thought of weeding some out and discarding them to create more room. I began to wander through a trail of some very precious memories instead. I simply could not believe how many things I had created in such a short amount of time.
The picnic table is the very first item I actually made out of wood. My husband helped me with it, but the labor of cutting and assembling was mostly mine. I love everything about wood: the smell of freshly cut wood, the smell of the polyurethane and stain, the sanding, using a finer grit for each step until its baby smooth. The table was not finished to that kind of fineness, but as I continued on, I brought other tools into play. I found that I was very intrigued with scroll sawing. The thought of carving out the wood from the inside instead of cutting in from the edge, had caught me up in wanting to try this kind of challenge. My first try was the five-picket fence. This was cut with a jig saw. All the rest of the wood you see in this group has been cut with a scroll saw including the chess set.
The afghans are basically snapshots of my journey in life. They have progressed through the years as simple one-piece afghans, to multiple pieces put together. After a few basic lessons from an aunt, I learned the rest on my own. The one thing I have not mastered is creating my own design. Every picture I have is of a pattern of someone else’s creation. Someday though, it just might happen.
I am a word person. That is, I take words literally. Through many years of searching out why certain things made me react certain ways, I found that because I take words in their literal sense, if they were directed towards me in a negative way, well that’s what I would give back. I mean the person throwing them my way must have wanted that right? Because I did not like who I was becoming, I decided to try to learn a more positive way to approach life. It was a long journey and it is still ongoing. Hence the words in my tagline. They are a way to look negativity in the face and throw back a little positive.
Have a wonderful night!
Annmarie