Hand Made and the Story Behind it.....

[jpel3500]

Ill try once more. Just because I think there are alot of people out there with talents they can show off with their photography. Grin. Common, brag a little!

JDPelfrey

[SadieBC]

I'll play!

The crocheted doily was a gift from my DIL's grandmother for Christmas 2 years ago. She is from Bulgaria and it is hand made. I will treasure it for many many years.

The table that the lamp and doily are sitting on was made by my dad when he was in high school. He passed away 2 years ago at 79 years old. Another treasure



I happened to have this picture already, I took it for another forum on crocheting! We have lots of hand made items here. This will be good practice with my camera! And hopefully my post will entice others to post to this thread.

[ateng]

This is our project car, 'handmade' within 3 months. We had a internal competition at our workplace to produce the project car. 20 teams of 8 members each were competing. Each team was given one base car, and RM 10,000 (about US$3k) to modify & come up with the best design. Our car got 2nd place.

[Dodge]

A couple of shots of a plastic airoplane kit I made for my son when he was still a lil boy, which I kept and a shot of a 15th c Border Reiver from a metal kit I made. My family line goes back to the Borders of that era, so this is a bit special to me. Alas, they were quite a rough, villainous bunch and according to the surviving poems and documents from that time, the Hall's were one of the more notorious families. There's even a wiki entry relating to their treacherous nature The Death of Parcy Reed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think this taken from the Wiki on Border Reivers sums them up nicely :

Reivers fighting as levied soldiers played important parts at the battles of Flodden Field and Solway Moss. When fighting as part of larger English or Scottish armies, Borderers were difficult to control as many had relatives on both sides of the border, despite laws forbidding international marriage. They could claim to be of either nationality, describing themselves as Scottish if forced, English at will and a Reiver by grace of blood. They were badly-behaved in camp, frequently plundered for their own benefit instead of obeying orders, and there were always questions about how loyal they were. At battles such as Ancrum Moor in Scotland in 1545, borderers changed sides in mid-battle, to curry favour with the likely victors, and at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547, an observer (William Patten) noticed that the Scottish and English borderers were talking to each other in the midst of battle, and on being spotted put on a show of fighting.
The names of the Reiver families are still very much apparent amongst the inhabitants of the Scottish Borders, Northumberland and Cumbria today.

Cool beans! (Although my wife says it explains quite a lot).

[Barbara V]

A very bad photo (from a 1.3mega pixel p&s) but the only shot I have of Shy Troll.. a 12 inch figure made from polymer clay. He was sold before I got any decent shots with a good camera.

[jpel3500]

Oh this is all really great stuff! I love to see people's talents! Thank you for sharing!

JDPelfrey