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Charlie Brown Christmas Part 2

December 16, 2014HOLIDAY DECOR AND MORE!Charlie Brown Christmas, decor, handmade wooden projectsKings Reyes

“Charlie Brown Christmas Part 2”

Okay. Today is Charlie Browns time to shine! Last time we did Snoopy and the tree, so today is Charlie’s turn.

Here are again a rough draft following is the grid coordinates to Charlie.

Charlie Brown's-Christmas-grid-coordinates — Charlie Brown’s-Christmas-grid-coordinates

Here are some additional pictures for you all.

"Bam!-Here's-Charlie-Brown!" — “Bam!-Here’s-Charlie-Brown!”

Bosch-jigsaw-does-a-short-shore-at-cutting-Charlie-Brown-out

I-Can't-Wait-To-Decorate-Someones-Lawn-Charlie-Brown — I-Can’t-Wait-To-Decorate-Someones-Lawn-Charlie-Brown

I just hope you all can see them more clearly because I sure can’t! Time to save up for some reading glasses. In the main picture I decided to color Charlie differently to make the project more interesting. Hope you all can make them, the crew will look Amazing on any lawn!

I don’t have any coordinates for Woodstock. I just drew him on wood and that was it. Oh, I also lightly engraved or carved them up a bit for added details. Here is a better closeup; I hope that helps. Maybe in the near future I will include him. That all depends on time…ticktock…ticktock, I’m out of time.

Til next time, C-Ya Later!

Charlie Brown Christmas

December 14, 2014HOLIDAY DECOR AND MORE!Charlie Brown Christmas, outdoor decoration, woodworkKings Reyes

“CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS”

When a friend told me he wanted a “Charlie Brown Christmas” decor, I ended up making two of them. Both are almost the same, but slightly different. In the following I hope to show those who want to learn how I made them; hope you will stay for the ride. We will start with the tree and work on Snoopy and Charlie later. For those who might be interested, I have a book out called “Christmas Art; Making Outdoor Decoration For Your Home” available at Amazon.com. Have time, check it out. It gives 14 easy projects to make. The cool thing is, you don’t have to be an artist to do this projects.

CHARLIE’S CHRISTMAS TREE

A pair of two slightly different trees for Charlie Browns Christmas yard decor.

Here is a rough draft picture and following are the grid coordinates for the tree and Snoopy.

I always start with a rough draft on grid paper, that way it is easier to adjust accordingly to the size that I want and make any necessary changes before I cut boards. For this project I wanted the decor to look more realistic in size; so the characters had to look like the size of children. I am using 3/4 inch plywood for this project just in case, the tree branches will be more stronger. You can use whatever size you like.

Here are closeups of the two different trees.

In this project, I exposed the two boards that would hold up the tree.

This tree support was covered up by that famous blue scarf belonging to Linus?

Anyways, have fun and I hope to cover Charlie’s coordinates next time. Yes before Christmas.

Frozen’s Olaf

November 11, 2014HOLIDAY DECOR AND MORE!Frozen characters, handmade wooden projects, OlafKings Reyes

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.

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.

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

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

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!

Charlie Brown Halloween Decor

October 4, 2014HOLIDAY DECOR AND MORE!Kings Reyes

Charlie Brown Halloween Decor

MEMOIRS

When my little girl was younger, I used to make all sorts of outdoor decor’ for the holidays. That was fun back then, but as parents know they tend to outgrow these things, so I quit making them; until recently when I decided to write about them. During the past two months I have completed 13 projects for an e-book I had been working on called “Halloween Projects for the Family” selling for $2.99 at Amazon.com and in the next couple of months I will share them with you.

“Charlie Brown Halloween”

This first project is titled “Charlie Brown Halloween” and is a lot easier to make then it looks. This one is made out of 3/8 plywood, but I recommend beefing it up to 1/2 for stability. Painted with paint and primer in one for durability, but it is really up to you. Here we go…

Plans

I always start my work on paper, I suppose most folks do as well. This way I can edit the project before any actual cuts on wood. If you can zoom in you will notice numbers all over. That is because I made a plot and grid system so that I can easily transfer Charlie Brown unto my cutting board. What is also pretty cool about the grid system is that you don’t need to know how to draw and you can make you final project bigger simply by multiplying the numbers by 2 or more? For example, grid (2, 5) will become (4, 10) and so on.

The Points

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While this may look like chicken scratch; once you zoom in you should be able to see much clearly the points and descriptions on what they represent. I suggest to look at the unpainted finished Charlie Brown as you go along and to connect the dots in sets so as to not have too many numbers and dots on the board. Another suggestion is to sand the board before plotting, that way all you have to do is sand the areas you had to cut.

Don’t forget safety folks. Til next time; have fun , be safe and go make something!

See ya!

Kings Reyes C.JR.

“It’s The Great Pumpkin”

September 28, 2014HOLIDAY DECOR AND MORE!Charlie Brown's "It's the Great Pumpkin", HalloweenKings Reyes

“It’s The Great Pumpkin”

I just finished publishing an e-Book on Amazon.com about how to create 15 outdoor wooden projects for Halloween, the easy way. The book provides grids and coordinates that you apply to your surface and trace to reveal a picture. Kind of like connecting the dots. You then paint your project for displaying. The book is called “Halloween Projects for the Family” and sells for $2.99.

While I have tested and created most of the projects, except three; I have never intended to sell them, but local folks are starting to ask for them. The top one is not on the e-Book, it was created after the book came out and sold for $200. dollars. “How cool is that!” I’m making money from my hobbies. The person contacted me through Craigslist and asked me if I could and for how much. That’s all it took.

Til next time, C-Ya Later!

MDRM

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Category Archives: HOLIDAY DECOR AND MORE!

Charlie Brown Christmas Part 2

Charlie Brown Christmas

Frozen’s Olaf

Charlie Brown Halloween Decor

“It’s The Great Pumpkin”