{"id":15895,"date":"2016-11-20T07:57:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T13:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15895"},"modified":"2016-11-19T08:06:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T14:06:23","slug":"a-more-manly-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/20\/a-more-manly-art\/","title":{"rendered":"A More Manly Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something about autumn that makes me want to sit at my garage workbench and work on handicrafts.  I think it&#8217;s the fact that, for two weeks, the temperature in the garage is between boiling and freezing.  But after finishing the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/15\/a-couple-carafes-of-note\/\" target=\"_new\">two coffee pots<\/a>, I decided to take up a woodburning project.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent trip to Hobby Lobby on one pretext or another, I picked up a stencil (it&#8217;s supposed to be a fabric painting stencil, I think) with an inspirational phrase &#8220;Make It Happen&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p>So I put it on a block of wood.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/makeithappenplaque.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The text uses a serif font, which means I had to use a fine tip for the serifs.  I&#8217;m not a fan of the fine tips, as I&#8217;m not the most surgical hand in the OR.  You can see I made a mistake on the K.  Also, it looks as though it&#8217;s a little crooked and slightly off-center.<\/p>\n<p>Still.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;ve taken to woodburning as much as I have.  I don&#8217;t work freehand; instead I get a stencil or trace something to then use my rudimentary woodburning tool on.  So the work I do is pretty primitive, but it&#8217;s enjoyable and leaves one with an artifact.  It&#8217;s like an adult coloring book where you use fire instead of a crayon.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve cleared it off of my work bench, I have room to do something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something about autumn that makes me want to sit at my garage workbench and work on handicrafts. I think it&#8217;s the fact that, for two weeks, the temperature in the garage is between boiling and freezing. But after finishing the two coffee pots, I decided to take up a woodburning project. On a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handicrafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15898,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15895\/revisions\/15898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}