Hey hey,
Sorry I've been so quiet lately but been very down and waiting to see the doctor and I just wanted to thank all my friends for phone calls and emails as they really do help through tough times and mean so very much and I honestly appreciate you taking the time and effort for little ole me so here's a few little, well actually bloody HUGE burl bowls I've made amoungst other things I've got done recently. I'm not fully back as I still want to see the quack about my depression next tuesday but I just miss you lot so much :give_heart: I have done a little noodling and found a few errors that I haven't seen before and mainly in the dollar coins with slight double tail roos, hope to get some pic's up later :good:
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welcome back aj :wavemulticolor:
nice bowls -- i reckon thats a box and a half of corn flakes size !! :angel:
:laugh2: yep I miss you lot so much :friends: Bloody corn flakes, now that's funny as they are fruit bowls as they have heaps of holes due to the sap in the grain so no corn flakes sorry Duggee :winkextra:
ya know what pisses me off and that's if I take them anywhere they'll say $50 so that's why I make things just to give away..and it makes me feel better :)
just need more burls now as they are a bit hard to come by nice one's
Wow AJ they are magnificent. You should be very proud you can make stuff like that.
Thanks PP, I reckon Mark could make you one..easy :winkextra: Yeah they come up ok and I love doing it and how you feel the hole time as it feels good getting it, and then trying to work out what to do with it and then the carving and then getting it all ready for top coat but then when top goes and and all the grain comes out that's when it's like you bloody beauty and I wish I could get more like the one I'm holding as it's nice even if I do say so my self :)
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They are awesome AJ.
Very clever stuff AJ.
Pedro
hey jayson , I hope you don't have to post them . ,, kel ,,
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='43195' dateline='1394052888'if I take them anywhere they'll say $50
That's because ebay's awash with cheap ones. :(
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='43195' dateline='1394052888'just need more burls now as they are a bit hard to come by nice one's
Would this one suit your purposes? :angel:
http://www.mcguiresplace.net/Sawmill-The%20World's%20Largest%20Burl/
Bugga.. pic won't link. :(
OK, so what about this one instead?
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:kez_15: :drooling: yeah yeah that would be sweet, gee i'd :diablo: for that and imagine all the stuff I could make, but where to start :scratch_one-s_head:
the fun bit would be cutting it :winkextra:
Good to see you back AJ.
We know you can't stay away for long.
Great job on the bowls, they look great.
Yeah it's a really bad habbit but what can ya do stuck in the bush :winkextra:
Oh well off to the quack tomorrow so depending on how I go and if he give me some new drugs I might be a little quiet until I see how I handle them :)
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='43525' dateline='1394431582'Oh well off to the quack tomorrow so depending on how I go and if he give me some new druge I might be a little quiet until I see how I handle them :)
what about me coming down on Friday , is that still ok .??
,, kel ,,
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='43525' dateline='1394431582'Oh well off to the quack tomorrow so depending on how I go and if he give me some new druge I might be a little quiet until I see how I handle them :)
what about me coming down on Friday , is that still ok .??
I don't want to drive for 6 hours and when I get there find you missing ,and then drive another 6 hours back home ..
,, kel ,,
Nah nah it's all good Kel, just a GP visit to get some meds and do my medical that I have to do every two years so I can drive :( Lookin forward to the visit so you can see what I've done :)
And no I'll just be quiet from the forum so I don't upset anyone until I know what the meds are like and how they make me feel..so like the old game show "Keldaw, come on down" :yahoo:
Well I have to battle it out a little long because of my bloody brain injury and see how I go/feel later but go back in a few weeks, he said heaps and heaps of people on pensions that he see's are like me ATM and fair shitt'en them selves as to WTF is going on in this counrty and even the talk of putting our GP visits up and the like are stressing so many out it's not funny so gee I hope these bastards don't get back in and now he's about to attack self funded retiree's so I hope all the one's that voted for them are scared as well..I can't believe that 1 idiots believe what the media say and 2 that they would vote for someone that basically said "trust me" we have no policies that we want to release but trust me..Ok sorry for the rant but man what else can I do with no happy pills :( Yeah I know the other lot are near as bad but not quite ;)
This is one heck of a fruit bowl!!
With lots of love and kisses to PP, Mark and the master crafts'man - AJ
Got one heck of a surprise at the post office tonight!
from Robbie
ps I think I recognise this in your picture AJ!!!!!
A fabulous welcome to the new kitchen present
ppss - apples from a local orchard at Piallago (the hubby picked them up today)
pppsss - it will have a home in the low bench with the cow, when the blinds are up and I can keep the sun off it
xx again robbie
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Yep, just like I thought, it looks pretty bloody good in there and gee it goes well with the floor and looks even better with some fruit in it and it's done with FeastWatson weatherproof varnish and says it's UV but will last a very long time if not in the sun :) Thank you RG, it's my pleasure and just so happy my work is appreciated :hi:
Oh and I just LOVE the kitchen and you've done a top job on it :good:
looks lovely on our table as well AJ
but it is sooo big that we reckon it would be tough going to have the fruit platter and our dinner at the one time!! ha ha
it's great mate
thank-you for all the work that you put into it and posting as well - arrived very safe and sound xxx
Exceptional bowl by "A.J." and looks tremendous in your kitchen Robbie.!!
Wonderful gesture and will give the cow something to look.!! :angel:
:mocking: I have one that's bigger if you'd like RG, it's about 7kg :)
Thanks Robster, I'll put you on the list and make you one :good:
Now back to this cow, so who else has one and are they compulsory 'cause here's mums, just a little different to yours RG :winkextra:
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its the hubby's very own cow lolly jar
and loves the thing to bits
had it for years now
all the kids know where the lollies are when they come home & ferret around for a yum yum
Thanks RG, now I know where to go when I come visit..it would have just been another cow to me :)
Quote from: 'Robster' pid='43636' dateline='1394570448'Exceptional bowl by "A.J." and looks tremendous in your kitchen Robbie.!!
Awesome bowl and awesome kitchen. A good match I reckon! :yahoo:
yeah it is all great Fulvio
we are settling in and cooking and stuff
we have to learn to remember to use the dishwasher - we keep just washing up by hand
groovy cow AJ
it is very sweet
our cow has a little duck chick on it's back as the lever
your mums cow has a swishing tail to grab onto
Yeah I showed mum your pic's and she thinks it all looks FANTASTIC and commented on the little chick, she has heaps of cow stuff floating about. We are the same, used the dishwasher about three times in nearly two years as it's quicker and easier just to run a little water because it doesn't take long and you still have to watch what you put in the bloody things..remeber some plastics melt ;)
ta
I have put some things near the edge and they have melted marks as a matter of fact
glad that mumsie likes the new kitchen
we do too!
very flash for us
I know it cost a bit do to but the changes are truly amazing to see what you had and what you now have..new hit TV series, DOO..DOOOOO......DO, DO, DO, DO.....DOOOOOO and welcome to RG in the 23rd and a half century, staring the illustrious robbiegal and not to forget, BIG K :mocking: