Not only did
Farmer Tuck let me try my hand at riding the lawn tractor, he let me work on a project in his workshop too. What fun!
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Here we are conferring on the proper distance for the holes needed in a block of wood to hold my watercolour pencils.
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Once we knew where to place the holes and how deep to make them, Farmer Tuck let me operate the drill press...
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while he held the wood firmly in place.
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I now have this handy dandy pencil holder that will hold 30 pencils and keep them organized while I work on a project.
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This is what it is replacing - the contraption on the right in the pic below. I made it out of egg cartons, and it did the job but kept ripping and the pencils were hard to get in and out of it.
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The holders on the left in the pics above and below keep all my storage colours grouped together, but I needed something to keep the ones currently being used separate, and right at my fingertips, when the pigment is wet and I need to grab different ones quickly to blend colours on wet paper before things dry out.
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It is the BEST! Thanks Bri I love it. I had fun working on it with you too.
2 comments:
What a great idea! Oh and you look lovely in your pictures....:-) Hugs
Bernie - Thank you! You just made my day.
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