{"id":56,"date":"2012-05-06T20:32:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2023-07-23T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T01:30:12","slug":"2009-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/christmas\/2009-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2009"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stuff made for Christmas 2009.<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Batleths and sock monkeys and flying pigs … oh my!\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing says “christmas” like weapons and monsters.\u00a0 Nothing wrong with my celebration of the holiday season, no siree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dated ornament for this year is another painted effort.\u00a0 Yes, I know I swore not to do this sort of thing again, but the design was just too perfect!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I asked my co-workers want they wanted for Christmas, and one wistfully replied “a\u00a0 big weapon”.\u00a0 He was having a bad day.\u00a0 So I made a couple of\u00a0 batleths out of MDF and painted\u00a0 them with aluminum paint.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At\u00a0 3-ft by 1-ft in size, they\u00a0 really can be\u00a0 swung around as if\u00a0 real!\u00a0\u00a0 Wanted to make one for myself, but ran out of time … I gotta make one for myself one of these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a cutie!\u00a0 A flying pig made of 3\/4-inch pine, and the wings out of 1\/4-inch plywood.\u00a0\u00a0 Even made one for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everyone’s favorite great old one — Cthulhu.\u00a0 Done in poplar and dyed in antique jade colour.

“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn<\/em>“<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The original design called for a circular piece, but all I had handy was this rectangular piece of something-or-other.\u00a0 Not sure what the wood is (maybe ash), but it sure turned out nicely!\u00a0 So nice, in fact, that my wife hinted STRONGLY that she would simply love to have it as a gift.\u00a0 So the intended recipient got something else … I’m no fool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pairing of dragon and phoenix.\u00a0 Apparently in Chinese mythology, the dragon represents “male” and the phoenix “female”.\u00a0 So I gave it to a recently married co-worker.\u00a0 Made of pine and stained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Awwww.\u00a0 Too cute not to make.\u00a0 Made of poplar and stained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m not fond of inspirational messages, but I kinda like this design.\u00a0 So I gave it to my Mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yet another “oakoo” … they look cute and are straightforward to make. \u00a0It’s made out of 3\/4-inch pine, and is about 7-inches wide.\u00a0 This one is dyed with antique jade colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another oakoo, done in pine with a simple oil finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another “awww” piece made out of 1-inch yellowheart (yellow …\u00a0 sunshine … get it?).\u00a0 I gave this one to my wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just for something a bit “crafty”, I decided to make up several of these sock monkeys\/creature\/thingies (each was slightly different).\u00a0 Had to learn how to sew properly and everything.\u00a0 Rather fun, actually, although putting in the stuffing through the hole in the butt quite creeped me out at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stuff made for Christmas 2009. Batleths and sock monkeys and flying pigs … oh my!\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing says “christmas” like weapons and monsters.\u00a0 Nothing wrong with my celebration of the holiday season, no siree. The dated ornament for this year is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"no-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/1019"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}