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[revchris]

I don't understand why everyone at work thinks it's weird when I describe my weekend by saying ".. and I spent Sunday cutting big pieces of wood up into little ones so that I can glues them back together, and then when I was done filling the garage with sawdust, teeka went down there to play with broken glass."

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[ohsochewy.livejournal.com]

Yeah! What's their problem?

(spoken as someone who had the freon-filled innards of a 50-year-old Crosley Shelvador fridge in the back of their car for a month)

[therealattentiv.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I learned a long time ago that most people have no idea what I'm actually doing so there's no point in trying to give them detail. Now I just tell them that I spent the weekend making sawdust and laugh as their face scrunches up trying to parse what I just said...

I used to work with someone that "pounded metal, made sparks, lit things on fire, and melted stuff..." (i.e. made armor). If you think telling someone you worked with wood or played with glass (stained glass or jewelry?), you should see the reaction he got telling folks he built armor... :)

He made a small suit of armor for one of our coworker's kid to wear for halloween. Very cool.

[teeka.livejournal.com]

Jewelry. Fused glass and stringing. I'm pondering getting into lampwork, if revchris will let me take over part of his workbench and experiment with his plumbing torches to see if I like them or if I'll need to buy my own. Mostly torchwork to make stringers and twisties (thin strings of glass, and two-color twisted thin strings of glass) to use as embellishments in my fusing stuff. My idea of a fun shopping experience is to paw through a big bucket of broken glass with my bare hands, and a relaxing evening is generally spent breaking the broken glass into smaller pieces and making heaps of the pieces.