I try doing some painting in my free time and just relax.
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That’s a very nice and spacious coop. How many are there in all? 5 yellow and 1 black?
My guess is that formulas and instructions have strict rules with respect to quantity/ measurement of ingredients while a recipe basically stays the same even if you increase/ decrease the quantity of ingredients according to your taste.
Can’t comment on the bird but the right one looks almost perfect. How long did it take for you to learn making one of these?
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Nice!! Very cool, bro. It’s fun to explore your art side, huh? What about origami caught your attention?
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Hi all, I was feeling quite lazy when I see what y’all been up to then I realised - I’ve learned to sew !
Thiose are 2 layer washable masks with pm 2.5 inserts - best design I could come up with - Denim outer to catch as much of the moisture droplets as possible old shirt cut up for the inners and made in sections so the pm 2.5 insert can be put in pposition - with acco type archive file binders cut down for the flexible nose moulding.
But seeing as the missus’s sewing machine was playing up (Broken motor casting) - I decided to buy another since I couldn’t think of a way of repairing it.
Eventually I DID repair it with brute force and 2 big woodscrews !
But by then I’d had a root around on ebay and since the boat canopy is getting a bit raggy - decided on a “Decent one” and eventually bought this ;
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(Bought the extra 8 Cams separately)
It’s a Viking Husqvarna 6440 - and it had an intermittent “No go” fault which took me 3 days to find and cure - but now she runs sweet as a nut does straight line of course zig zag, button hole, and thse extra 32 patterns - some of which look great with a twin needle and contrasting colour threads ! and several of them will simulate an Overlocker (Serger) to prevent edge fraying. 
Also has a great bobbin winder and a 1/5 speed function - which triples the power and of course the reverse and adjustabe presser foot pressure.
Here’s one in operation ;
Somene on U tub reckons it’s the best sewing machine ever made and it hails from 1970’s.
Cost me just over £100 all in - but hey that’s cheap !
Anyhow - I’m pleased with it and the masks don’t even let your glasses steam up 
- even tho’ they take me 3-4 hours each to cut out, make the bias binding and stitch all the components together before final assembly - and they sdo wash fine in the machine.
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two weeks, the swan looks more like a scrunched up plane haha
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i love it how just with a few folds and creases, a piece of paper could turn into something beautiful. well, i still have a loooong way to go haha. but yeah, i like doing origami now. it feels nice just focusing and trying to it the best that i can
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brilliant!
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Trying to avoid going to a store to get parts and stuff needed for the repairs doesn’t make things easy. But I am trucking along.
What an appropriate time to take up sewing and what an appropriate product to make !
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True, now is probably a better time than ever.
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Yeah, but that’s too many after they get large.
Wow! Sounds like rocket science (and maybe dangerous), but the masks are impressive!
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Thank you - I’m in the “vulnerable” category and we have the wife’s brother staying with us - who is also in there, so the masks are the best I can do to protect the three of US - mostly masks are to prevent You contaminating Others.
But I love fixing stuff which goes round and round and up and down - and that machine is 45 years old - you’d have to pay £1000 + for something “Computerised” nowadays to do what it can do with cogs and levers and cams ! I am hoping my grand daughters or their kids will still be using it in another 45 years - wonder where those “computerised ones” will be in 45 years time ? 
Anyhow got loads of other stuff to ‘mend’ and make - here’s a piccy of what I think will be the next project !
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. As you can see - it’s a Ride on Lawnmower / Garden Tractor, which I stood there about 17 years ago saying "I’ll get that working when I get around to it ! " 
I been busy with conducting a podcast. With everything that’s been going on, I feel as if people has a lot on their minds but don’t want to share the thoughts to others. That’s what my podcast is about, talking about real subjects of what’s been going on since the pandemic , with harsh honesty.
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Cool.
Looks like we still have a lot of time to work on our “things”.
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Painting as in art or painting around the house?
That’s so cool! How did you learn to sew?
While the situation right now is really depressing, I also feel like it’s given us the time to do things we wouldn’t usually do when we were so busy. It also made me rethink about the things I was so busy on before.
Thank you How to learn ? - same way I learned to ride a motor bike, drive a car, weld, lay bricks, slate a roof - etc - same way you lads learn to play cmputer games -
just start then when you hit a problem, work it out or ask someone (It’s SO much easier now U-tub is there to solve most of our skills shortages ) -
It’s important to remember - THAT is how boys/men DO “learning” (including trading)
[EDIT - generally speaking - Girls/women learn by “Sit by Nellie” (Copying) ]
Today I had a Son in Law ring me up and ask if I’d tow a caravan round to his for him - so he could “Work out how it works” - said he was thinking of taking “Towing lessons” so he could move it himself ! - I felt quite sad for my daughter at that !
hey man - Here’s a wee clip about a great series - from early 1980’s when a lot of us were Depressed - don’t miss Yosser and the “Glasgow kiss” close to the end
I hope we don’t go back there again !
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I think that’s Important - I too have been thinking about what things in life are IMPORTANT - to ME and what things - I just do “For the sake of peace and quiet” - or to “Stop the neighbours talking”
As my old man used to say "F— 'em - I owe them NOwt "*