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What do your hands create?

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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!

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  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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  2. Magic...

  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.

  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

  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.

  6. my hands can save the world

  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.

  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

  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.

  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.

  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.

  12. Beer, wine, and the occasional wicked stir-fry

  13. Ceramics rule!

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