for my youngest daughters gradution

[Dragonkort]

I don't know if I mentioned it or not but my youngest daughter Heather is graduating from collage in June. She's spent the last 4 years going to collage an working full time... and getting very little sleep I might add.. well she s finished with her externship when they closed the schools down here in mich.  im very proud of her!!  I cant give her a party as I had planed but shes coming over today to drop me off some yarn and iv made a goodie box for her,. lol  I would have put this on a table at a party for her but since we can't do that im sticking it in the box of goodies for her.. I wish her picture was clearer in the picture but oh well. im keeping 2 of these, one im giving to Heather and the other one im keeping for me...with her picture in it and a 2020 written on the bottom base . I got the pattern for these bubble head graduation picture frames from the winterfield collection I think.. I used to subscribe to them and got packits of there patterns every 3 months I think it was I might look into doing that again some day, not that I don't already have more patterns then I will ever be able to make lol

[dgman]

She should love that!

[Fedido]

Amazing idea! Well done.

[Dragonkort]

she did love it!! she and her husband drove over and spike took the box of goodies out to her and put it in there car, and i could see from the windo how much she loved it.  she refusied to come inside to see me and spike wouldn't let me go out so all i could do was talk to her for a sec through the closed windo and then wave her goodby. now for a little venting... cause who else do i have to vent to. lol   if my family dosnt stop treating me as if im some kind of fragial sick little old lady im going to smake every last one of them up side the head!!! grrr....all my siblings and children and there spouses keep telling me there not going to vist or like heather they wont come inside because of all my health issues... even spike is making me feel like some kind of invalid....telling me i cant go outside and hug my 5 foot 9 baby girl...now i told spike to knock it off unless he wants a smake up side the head!!! lol  which is why i dont let them know the real conditions of my health problems lol  if there treating like i have one foot in the grave now ... i shudder to think how theyd treat me if they really knew my condition... ok venting finished.... on a lighter note i did finally get my birthday present from her.... a granny squares afgain.... to go with the other afgain she gave me a few years ago...lol both are of course beautiful!!! well hope everyone is having a great evening

[wombatie]

She will be over the moon with it.  Congratulations to Heather and to you.

Marg

[namunolie]

 

It's a really good idea 

she will love it

[daveww1]

very nice

[amazingkevin]

On 4/24/2020 at 2:37 PM, Dragonkort said:

I don't know if I mentioned it or not but my youngest daughter Heather is graduating from collage in June. She's spent the last 4 years going to collage an working full time... and getting very little sleep I might add.. well she s finished with her externship when they closed the schools down here in mich.  im very proud of her!!  I cant give her a party as I had planed but shes coming over today to drop me off some yarn and iv made a goodie box for her,. lol  I would have put this on a table at a party for her but since we can't do that im sticking it in the box of goodies for her.. I wish her picture was clearer in the picture but oh well. im keeping 2 of these, one im giving to Heather and the other one im keeping for me...with her picture in it and a 2020 written on the bottom base . I got the pattern for these bubble head graduation picture frames from the winterfield collection I think.. I used to subscribe to them and got packits of there patterns every 3 months I think it was I might look into doing that again some day, not that I don't already have more patterns then I will ever be able to make lol

Dragonkort these are way better than a pet Rock for making money. They are gorgeous!!! You out did yourself again!!! Keep your welcome ideas coming!!! I think I need a knock in the head to dream up some quality stuff!!!

[amazingkevin]

On 4/24/2020 at 8:21 PM, Dragonkort said:

she did love it!! she and her husband drove over and spike took the box of goodies out to her and put it in there car, and i could see from the windo how much she loved it.  she refusied to come inside to see me and spike wouldn't let me go out so all i could do was talk to her for a sec through the closed windo and then wave her goodby. now for a little venting... cause who else do i have to vent to. lol   if my family dosnt stop treating me as if im some kind of fragial sick little old lady im going to smake every last one of them up side the head!!! grrr....all my siblings and children and there spouses keep telling me there not going to vist or like heather they wont come inside because of all my health issues... even spike is making me feel like some kind of invalid....telling me i cant go outside and hug my 5 foot 9 baby girl...now i told spike to knock it off unless he wants a smake up side the head!!! lol  which is why i dont let them know the real conditions of my health problems lol  if there treating like i have one foot in the grave now ... i shudder to think how theyd treat me if they really knew my condition... ok venting finished.... on a lighter note i did finally get my birthday present from her.... a granny squares afgain.... to go with the other afgain she gave me a few years ago...lol both are of course beautiful!!! well hope everyone is having a great evening

You know it,s funny about this virus thing.i don't see people staying home much around here. I guess they thing it,s not to bad like xa headache? Boy if I got one of the bobble heads I would have gotten weak in the knees!!! Tell us more on adjusting the spring on them and what kind of spring?

[Dragonkort]

spike made them from the wire you get for hanging pictures... he dosnt remember the gage though, then we tightly wound the wire around a nail.... to attatch the head to the body I just drilled really small holes in the head and body and used super glue in the holes when I put the wire in the holes... I wish I could make my own patterns because this is the only bobble head pattern I have and id love to make a lot more of them....  like policemen/woman firemen/women nurses, drs, vets any kind of person you can think of !!! then all you have to do is size and print a face picture and attatch a picture to the back of the head. im sure they would sell really well...they make great gifts... but im sure someday some one who can make patterns will make all different kinds of thems and make some good money on them lol well spike has to try to get the church live feed on my computer so I can :go to church: this morning. lol one good thing about the viris it has inabled me to be able to go to church againl lol I asked the pastor if he will countue to do the live feeds after this is al over and he said hed like to so well see! lol have a great day!!

[heppnerguy]

i have never seen this pattern before. They sure are different and quite cute. It is a shame you can't even give your daughter a hug now. I do personally believe that if someone is not really well, it is a good idea to keep the distance and not chance getting this ugly virus. My wife and I do not go visiting or out to the store, except when we have no choice. Our granddaughter is having her first baby in three weeks and my wife has airplane tickets to go and help her with the new baby, but she has decided that it is not a good idea to go on the plane and possibly be exposed and then go take care of a new baby. She called our granddaughter and told her, she is no longer going to be going there. A good idea, I believe. Not worth the chance.

Dick

heppnerguy

[Dragonkort]

I know your right heppnergy, but I still don't like being treated like some fragial little thing lol im used to being the strong one, and doing what ever I want.  I used to push my body to the limit and then push it just a little bit more. lol I cant do that now, just walking from the Livingroom to the kitchen I have to stop and sit a minute to catch my breath...to me its a very bothersome annoyance I try to for get I have . lol its harder to do that when everybodys telling you different. lol I can fool most people but not spike...he always knows... that's why as much as I wish my kids would visit more hes glad they don't. He says I push myself to much when there around....but im not just a parent Im there mother. lol Never having had any kids of his own he dosnt understand that...lol We have a stool in the laundray room I use to sit on when im doing the dishes because the disks or something in my back are detearating which makes my back hurt like the dickens if im standing or walking to long.... and I have to sit on the cooler when I take a shower because I cant stand long enough and I have to keep the door partly opened or the steam from the shower takes my breath away. I always knew I wouldn't like getting old and I was right!!! lol but we put the stool and the cooler away when the kids come....they always call first as it takes about an hour to get here so I have time to hid the evidence that mom is not as healthy as they think I am. lol spike says I should tell the kids and let them know but I don't want them to visit more often because im getting older and my health is not good...I want them to visit me more because they love me and WANT to visit more... if that makes any sense. lol 

[rdatelle]

What a great idea. Is that your own pattern.  Those came out great.

[Fred Kile]

Now that's a cleaver gift idea for a graduate. I know I sure would have loved it. Wonderful, I love it!

[Dragonkort]

Ratdatelle,  No lol I got the pattern I think from the winterfield collection a few years ago, I used to belong to there pattern club. Heather did indeed love it. !!! and I kept one for me with her picture in it. I was thinking its a shame that that's the only bobble head pattern I have and then I got to thinking...even though I cant draw I think I might be able to make my own patterns for different ones...It uses 1/4 in wood and is basically a body and a head....now if I can find some people patterns to trace...and im pretty sur I can...I could just enlarge or reduce the pattern to size, cut the head off and trace the picture onto wood and just cut it out and paint it.  Of course the detail might not be as much as on the picture but as long as you could tell what they are it should be ok... so now im looking for pictures ( I think coloring book type pictures would work best) to print and cut out and see how it works... I don't see where  I would have to much trouble turning the pictures into bobble heads...so im off to go in serach of coloring book type pictures lol