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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Remembrance Day 2016


The battle of the Somme, WW1 was a tragic day for the  Newfoundland Regiment, fighting near Beaumont-Hamel in France.
This tiny self- governing country, (Newfoundland did not join Canada until 1949) sent 801 soldiers into battle on July 1, 1916. The next day, only 68 were able to answer roll call.
The Beaumont-Hamel memorial is perched up on a rocky promontory, suitably echoing  the country's nickname -"The Rock". There are other memorials to the Newfoundlanders and labradorians across Belgium and France.


Have a look at the CBC documentary, TheTrail of the Caribou, a depiction of how this war affected the people of Newfoundland for generations to come, and may even have played a part in making them a province in the Confederation of Canada, because so many young men had perished during this brutal war.


Read about of The Danger Tree : Memory, War and the Search for a Family's Past by David Macfarlane.

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Making Wall Sconces

Hmmmm, now what could be used to make these?
Take a push pin, a star acrylic bead, a small circle punched from paper, a round bead and a seed bead. Also, cut an oval from card.


Then put some Play Dough or something similar into one segment of the star bead and glue in place. This will provide a point of attachment to the wall.



Place the star bead on top of the push pin and glue in place.

 

The circle of card gets glued on top to make a platform for a candle.



Add the round bead and the seed bead to the bottom, 


Add the oval to the back. Paint the whole thing black.


Whole thing painted black

Garage Sale roombox and fish

I scored a wonderful prize at the NOTL Pumphouse sale - a roombox just the right size to fit some items from my stash. Can you believe the price? I left the tag on so you can see.
Here is how it started out.



Here is the finished product. I have had the potbellied stove forever, as well as the checkers table. Printed and framed Canadian themed posters from the net. The upper attic gave me a chance to use more items from my stash...



The fish trophy was made from a $store package of fish shapes meant for scrap booking, I think. See the little fish on the label? That is how they started out.


Not too bad, eh?




Laundry

Worked on an old time laundry scene.

Checkers, Anyone?

Found this roombox at the annual Pumphouse sale this summer. It was missing a couple of shingles, but in good shape otherwise. Not bad for .25 , eh?


This is how it turned out.
Moose head, butter churn. How Canadian is that?




The Canadian themed posters were downloaded from the net and framed. The fish was from a $store package, painted and mounted on a card oval, string glued around the edge and painted to look like wood.