What do your hands create?

Question

An aviary sounds like a lot of fun to meow. lol I'd love to have birds again; no matter how big the typical cage is, it is never free enough. I locked the cat upstairs and let mine fly!

Answer 1

It almost drives me mad that I rarely get to create anything much more with my hands as I did in the past.

As a child, I did a lot of arts and crafts kind of things.  Then in my adolescent years, I built more than a few model cars, often utilizing left-over pieces from other kits.

In my working career as an automotive electrician, my wiring jobs and custom electrical accessories installation verged upon artwork.

Nowadays, my best physical artworks exist only in my mind; while my artworks of words and ideas are either hand-written or published on the Internet.  And yet any chance that I get to fabricate something by hand, I seize upon it with a vengence.

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Answer 2

Magic...

Answer 3

For a living I've been doing a lot of unusual, custom work. Here is a link to the work:

http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/gall...

It pays my bills but I'm pretty good at it so I keep getting these odd and unusual custom jobs.

As to my life (as opposed to my work) my hands create my paintings.

When not doing either, I often re-build and upgrade donated computers that my friend Keith and I then donate to shelters for use by the kids there.

EDIT: You gotta admire anyone who would build an aviary for birds. Birds should have enough space to do what birds are supposed to do - fly.

Answer 4

- Pieces of fiction

- Music (I play Irish whistle, flute, recorder, reed-pipe)

- Indian food from scratch (I roast + grind all the spices myself)

Hafwen x

Answer 5

Not much any more, but I used to be a gem cutter and jeweler. I made pieces that will outlast my life and possibly a generation or two.

Answer 6

my hands can save the world

Answer 7

I use them to feed myself.

Now I am using them to feed my year old daughter also.

I use my hands to earn and learn myself and feed myself and my family and my pets.

My hands not only feed me they soothe. They help me to feed my brain with creativity and inspire to widen my knowledge.

My hands are the creator of knowledge, wealth and my spiritual satisfaction.

Answer 8

Fantastic question!

Quilts

Knitted items from the wool of my Angora goat I hand shear

Clothing

Horse & goat tack, like harnesses & briddles

Bird feeders

Bird nesting boxes

Pet bird cages (huge, floor to ceiling)

Life in our garden

Many dollhouse items

Dolls

Hand woven baskets

Canvis tote bags

Leather chaps

Jewlery

Journals & stories

Home canned items (pickles/jams)

Homemade bread

Butter

Cheese

Handmade cards (really beautiful)

About 20 different types of exceptionally lovely Christmas ornaments

Relaxation/happiness for hubby with great back massages

Flora centerpieces/agangments

Varrious wreaths (favorite is a wheat wreath)

Bridal boquet

Ribbon flowers

Beaded artwork

Needlepoint

Paintings (not very good)

Cages/corrals/fences

Expressive hand gestures to accompany stories told to small children.

Midwife assistance to my goats and horses (if needed).

Drawings (not very good)

Gorgeous fairy wings 5-10 year old girls go nuts for.

Scrumptious cookies!

Quilling (a truely lovely art form!)

Book covers, and mendings for old falling appart books

Thoughtful hand written letters

The extra hands for a doctor during surgery when I worked medical, or for my husband doing mechanical  things.

Peace, and calmness (never underestimate the power of touch) helping a horse who has a gaping wound you could stick two mens fists in, or a man who's been in a car accident and is gushing blood from a head wound.

Life for a boy choking to death on a McNugget at a child's birthday party at McDonalds.

Dignity of a clean and bathed body for someone who has passed on.

Tickles and gales of laughter from children

Homemade sidewalk chalk, and playdough

Simply to provide a hand to someone who is undergoing a medical procedure they are terrified of, so they have the contact of another warm humanbeing, and something to squeeze and crush when fear overwhelms them.

"Fotrune cookies" made from fabric with fun sayings in them

Scrapbooks

"I love you," flashed to my husband in American Sign Language.

The "you're number one" (NOT!) sign flashed to bad drivers.

Repairs of many, many things, from antique furniture, to plumbing, to all kinds of farm related things.

Orchard Mason Bee houses!

Eventually our very home, when we build straw bale.

Greenhouse

Barn

Costumes & masks

Leather & beaded purses

Aprons, tablecloths, placemats & other such kitchen linens

Hand embroidered pillowcases.

Baby quilts & knitt blankets

Hand dipped candles

Apple cider with the large hand crank/crushing machine (made from wood)....absolutely delicious!

Varrious items from clay.

I love to create.  When I was small my parents always encouraged me to hand make them presents (Christmas/birthdays).  I grew up with a real love and appreciation of the hand created.  The older I get the more my love of creating hand crafted items seems to expand.

Blessed are the parents who teach their children a love and appreciation for the handcrafted.

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Answer 9

Mostly painting and drawing.  Sometimes a bicycle mechanic adjustment or two.  Some model building also.  

And sometimes a great hamburger with onion soup mixed in and flame broiled over a barbeque.

Answer 10

answers to questions i need to answer in school, seriously. i'm still studying until now. ohhh. i hope i can finish it soon.

Answer 11

dissension. extension. no dangit, i won't do my jesse jackson imitation for you , i like to create things you can use. i am building an indoor aviary at this moment. eight foot diameter. for my zebra finches. seriously.

Answer 12

Beer, wine, and the occasional wicked stir-fry

Answer 13

Ceramics rule!