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Last Sunday i was at our guild's open day and we were encouraging members of the public to have a go on the scrollsaw. While some felt a bit too embarrased to, others jumped at the chance. As I watched them wandering through the lines, chuckling away at their efforts, I took note that not one of them left their cut pieces behind. it made me wonder what would happen to those pieces.
My very first 9 cuts were part and parcel of a nine piece traditional cut jigsaw pattern on MDF. I was really chuffed about this puzzle as I couldn't even see where I had wavered
once the paper was removed - thank goodness!! Anyway I looked at them for ages then thought, hey why not paint them - so that's what I did and later shoved them in a drawer. After some time passed we realised that in spite of the many clocks Trev has made we didn't have one in the shed. At that, a lightbulb lit up in my head and I headed off to get my first pieces, promptly glued them to a backer, drilled a hole in the centre, set a clock mechanism into it and wrote the word, PUZZLED? on it (no numbers). Whoolah! We now had a shed clock! As I thought a bit more about what I had done another light bulb started flashing in my head and i headed off to the computer to write this poem which got glued to the back of the clock.
Puzzled?
A clock created from the 9 very first cuts I made.
Teresa Gillbanks.
To the creator,
regardless of quality,
every first piece
should be considered…
a masterpiece!
A masterpiece?
Yes, a masterpiece!
For in that very first piece
is absorbed,
and well stored,
energy, enthusiasm and drive!
Energy, enthusiasm and drive
builds memories for the future,
memories to reflect on.
Memories, that one day,
we may need to draw on.
Memories to keep our spirits alive!
Now I'd love to hear some stories from others about what your first few cuts were, what you done with them, and whether you still have them.
My very first 9 cuts were part and parcel of a nine piece traditional cut jigsaw pattern on MDF. I was really chuffed about this puzzle as I couldn't even see where I had wavered
once the paper was removed - thank goodness!! Anyway I looked at them for ages then thought, hey why not paint them - so that's what I did and later shoved them in a drawer. After some time passed we realised that in spite of the many clocks Trev has made we didn't have one in the shed. At that, a lightbulb lit up in my head and I headed off to get my first pieces, promptly glued them to a backer, drilled a hole in the centre, set a clock mechanism into it and wrote the word, PUZZLED? on it (no numbers). Whoolah! We now had a shed clock! As I thought a bit more about what I had done another light bulb started flashing in my head and i headed off to the computer to write this poem which got glued to the back of the clock.Puzzled?
A clock created from the 9 very first cuts I made.
Teresa Gillbanks.
To the creator,
regardless of quality,
every first piece
should be considered…
a masterpiece!
A masterpiece?
Yes, a masterpiece!
For in that very first piece
is absorbed,
and well stored,
energy, enthusiasm and drive!
Energy, enthusiasm and drive
builds memories for the future,
memories to reflect on.
Memories, that one day,
we may need to draw on.
Memories to keep our spirits alive!
Now I'd love to hear some stories from others about what your first few cuts were, what you done with them, and whether you still have them.
Bob.
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