Monthly Archives: November 2014

Frozen’s Olaf

HOLIDAY DECOR AND MORE!, ,

Frozen’s Olaf

Frozen's Alof
Frozen’s-Olaf

Just in time for the Holidays! I did this project for an old friend of mine from my hometown here in Texas by the Rio Grande Valley. Stands at around 44″ tall and by 24″ wide. I enjoyed seeing this project come to life.

 

The Stuff

I screwed 1/2 ” pipe clamps to the backside to be used with 1/2″ rebar as a stake.

1/2"-pipe-clamps
1/2″-pipe-clamps

 

Displaying-yard-art
Displaying-yard-art

I use two clamps with stainless steel screws. Make sure you are not using too long of screws or it might (will) go to the other side.

 

Displaying-your-work-of-art
Displaying-your-work-of-art

Here I got two different types of clamps and bars. 1/2″ clamps are for the 1/2″ re-bar and the 3/4″ clamps are for the 3/4″ cement stakes. I recommend using the 1/2″ re-bar. Its cheaper and works fine.

 

Some Tools

Skil-jigsaw
Skil-jigsaw

I own two jigsaws; a Bosch and this one from Skil. Both work great! The Bosch has more power, but this one has a scrolling feature that allows the saw blade to completely go around making sharp turns a snap!

The Project; Frozen’s Olaf

Here is a picture of the rough draft and following are the grid coordinates to the project.

Alof's=grid-coordinates
Olaf’s=grid-coordinates
Alof's-coordinates
Olaf’s-coordinates

Hopefully you can zoom in on them! By the way, this project and many others are in my Christmas e-book selling at Amazon.com called…”Christmas Projects for the Family.” While there, checkout my Halloween e-book as well, it has fourteen projects selling for only $2.99; called “Halloween Projects for the Family.”

Best of luck!

P.S. I might be undoing the way I categorize things and just post whatever comes to mind. “What are your thoughts on that?”

Til next time, C-Ya Later!

 

“The Double D’S; Debt Detective”

"KA-CHING!"

“The Double D’S; Debt Detective”

“As of my last post back in God Knows When!?”, I have managed to remove three fast loans from my profile…until three weeks ago.

 

“WHERE HAVE MY DREAMS GONE TO NOW? TROUBLE BREWED IN MY HORIZON”

When we least expect things to go wrong…they sometimes do. My spouse had to go into the hospital for surgery and she would not get admitted unless a down payment was given ($3000) of the unknown total amount for the surgery. I am still waiting for the total as I write this. She has been out of work recovering for the past two weeks, today was her first day back. Hope she is handling it well. Even with health insurance (she had a $5000 deductible) things can get really expensive when it comes to anything dealing with medicine.

 

BACK ON THE SADDLE AGAIN

“Let me get my sorry ass out of the hole and off the dirt again.” I am determined to make 2015 my year out; no matter what gets in my way…Okay-okay, so long GOD gives me the strength. So…I had to renew my fast loans and know I am re-figuring how to get out of them for good. I was down for a while having to get them and having to figure a way to stay on top without filing for bankruptcy. I have decided to call on my creditors and inform them why I am not going to pay up until the following month, hope they understand.

 

NEW PLAN OF ACTION

I am selling my 2005 Dodge truck and hoping to get around $6000 at least. I have been busily building wooden outdoor decorations for the holidays and that has proved fruitful, at least for now. I also wrote two books, “Halloween Projects for the Family” and “Christmas Projects for the Family”. They both can be found in Amazon.com using the titles. I hope someone discovers them soon. I have two projects pending for Christmas, they are the characters from Frozen totaling $250 profits. I intend to save money from all those projects, selling metals, and what not until I have enough to pay off one of those fast loans. Of course, selling the truck will save me, but I intend to go after all my bills one at a time until I have no more. Tomorrow I intend to refinance my little girl’s car through our credit union in hopes to save a little there as well. We will see what comes down by the end of this month.

 

Best wishes to you all strangers and best of luck.

C-Ya Later!