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Keith Hernandez 1989 Bowman When  I picked up this baseball card of Keith Hernandez, I bought it ‘on the blind’ during a little spree on Sportlots.com. Being the dedicated player collector that I am, I was going after stacks of cards for the new PC’s I am working on, and that list included Mr. Hernandez. When I shop at Sportlots.com, my lone goal is ‘cheap’.  Buy what I need for a very low price and get out unscathed.  And that is exactly what I did, bringing home more than forty new cards for my collection including a healthy stack of cards of Hernandez. And I have to say that once my cards arrived, I was pleasantly surprised to see a 1989 Bowman baseball card that featured a photo that was not a posed, head-shot!!! Have a look:

I've been writing quite a bit about Wingtip Press and Boise's sesquicentennial lately. And today that trend continues with both. To celebrate Boise's 150 years, Wingtip Press has been doing a series of free workshops (funded by a grant from the City Arts & History department) throughout the year called Print 150.Participants need to sign up to reserve a space for the two day workshop. In the workshop they create collagraph prints of different houses/buildings found around Boise. Everything is provided and no skill in printmaking is needed. Anyone can do it and it is a great introduction to printmaking. I signed up myself and Anna to attend the workshop which started last Thursday and was completed yesterday. Last week we worked on creating our plate. Anna working on her plateHere is what our plates looked like after we had glued various items onto it (mostly wallpaper papers). Anna's is first.Amy Nack (Wingtip Press owner and artist) coated the plates and pressed them flat so that this week they would be ready to print. Yesterday we inked up the plates and ran them through the press. We made three prints (2 regular and 1 ghost). A ghost print is made by running the plate through the press after a first run print without re-inking. Here's how they turned out.One of Anna's first run prints.Anna's ghost print.One of my first run prints.My ghost print.I have not made a collagraph print before. It's fun to see how the different textures turn out. One print will be kept for the city and they have been and will continue to be shown in different locations throughout the year.Wingtip Press will be hosting a few more of these workshops throughout the remainder of the year. Keep checking the website for dates/times or the City Arts & History Department's Boise 150 site.

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Architects: Fernández Soler Monrabal Arquitectos Location: Xátiva, Valencia, Spain Project Architects: Carlos Soler Monrabal + Luisa Fernández Rodríguez Technical Architect: Juan Antonio Díaz Romero Year: 2010 Photographs: Carlos Soler Monrabal Collaborators: Víctor Soriano Tarín, Ismael Planelles Naya, Alejandro Rodríguez Sáenz, Laura Papíri (Arquitectos) Engineer: David Gimeno Asensio, Índigo Ingeniería Client: CIEGSA, Consellería de Educación, Generalitat Valenciana Construction: Construcciones Luján S.A. Materials: Lattice: Ladrillo Hidrófugo Macizo; Facade: Ladrillo Hidrófugo Perforado / Marca Malpesa, Color Rojo Bailén The new Jacinto Castañeda arises from the total replacement of the old school in an adjoining plot, keeping only the block of the gym. The plot of expansion is located on the Cami de la Bola, in the town of Xativa. This is an expanding area of the town at its southwestern end characterized by medium-density buildings (single-family house in a row of three heights). The plot has a rectangular shape, bounded to the south by Geógrafo Estrabón Street, to the north by the Cami de la Bola, and to the east it shares a party wall with the current center and with another lot of municipal ownership. The area of the lot had a sharp slope as it was located on the mountainside, with a vertical difference of 12.50 m between the upper and lower streets. For the reasons discussed above, we proposed a replacement of the existing building with a project in two phases: In the first phase we intended to construct a new building with almost all of the program in the adjacent plot, without interfering in the functioning of the existing building. Once the new building was finished and put into operation, the second phase would take place involving the demolition of the existing building, retaining the areas that could be used such as the gym and the caretaker’s house. We would proceed to build the dining hall and complete the development of the lot by integrating the spaces freed by the demolition to obtain a unitary result. Ultimately and due to the needs of the center and its students, the dining hall was built during the first phase. The response to the characteristics of the site has been instrumental in the design of the project as well as the relationship of the building with the lot of the existing center and the buildings that are preserved. The building is arranged in three levels that are adapted to the slope of the land to allow a good relationship with the exterior surfaces, facilitating accessibility and avoiding excessive earthworks. The orientation of the volumes is arranged to capture the maximum natural light and to prevent casting shadows between the built volumes. In this way, the building is located on the western edge of the lot and is terraced to capture light from the south and the east, and at the same time maintain the distance with the existing building. Access to the center is from the Cami de la Bola because it is the street which is better connected to the rest of the city. Of the three levels mentioned above, the access level is reserved for kindergarten spaces and for the access to the rest of the building, along with some common spaces such as the Multipurpose Room, reception, and administration. Therefore, access to kindergarten is from the same point but differentiated from the access to primary school, which is slightly higher (+0.90m), establishing an independent operation that allows easy communication. The kindergarten classrooms are laid out in groups of three oriented north, reinforcing the lighting from the east through skylights that also provide cross ventilation. At higher levels, 18 teaching spaces for primary are laid out in groups of six with their corresponding classrooms for small groups and teaching teams. The first floor contains six primary school classrooms with common rooms such as the library, multipurpose workshop, computer, and music room. The classrooms are lai

I had a good day cutting yesterday. My Christmas box is once again well on its way and I should be able to finish at least the cutting part by today. I am very happy with that and it will mean that I can button up these magazine project submissions for this issue. While I have been working on my submissions, Keith has been doing some designing of new patterns for the site. It is great to have a partner because between the two of us, we are able to keep a pretty good flow of new items up on the site. A couple of weeks ago when he was working on his submissions for the magazine, I was able to provide the site with several new candle trays. This time Keith is in the spotlight on the site with several new word plaques and another addition to his Self-Framing Leaf Bordered Wildlife Plaque series, which has been extremely popular. This time, he made a Lynx: SLDK233 Self-Framing Lynx Plaque I think it is a great addition to this series, and love the way it came out. He also made some more word art plaques. These have been really popular too. As an expansion on his Bible quote series, he added this design: SLDK312 Mark 5:36 He also started a new word art series which are more contemporary plaques. There are three so far in this series, and for those who love to cut lettering, they are fun and really nice. SLDK314 Home Word Art Plaque SLDK315 Family Word Art Plaque SLDK316 Love Word Art Plaque He is selling the patterns for these plaques both individually and in a set. All in all, I think it is a pretty nice addition to what we have on the site. There are many positive things about having two people working together. It is at this time that I think our differences are really a benefit to both of us. By having two of us working and designing, we bring two different perspectives to our business and that allows us to appeal to a broader audience. I realize that it isn’t always easy to find a partner that is suitable in so many ways, but I am fortunate to have Keith here to contribute so much to the business and my life. Even though it is “Sheila Landry Designs”, I like to refer to us as “Team Sheila Landry” and I share every bit of success with Kieth. Together we are able to accomplish some wonderful things. I wish you all a wonderful Friday! For those of you in the States, I hope you have a wonderful long weekend and take time to enjoy yourselves and reflect and have fun.

This is a pair of custom cabinets that I built for a customer. Not really sure what you’d call this style It almost has an eastern feel to it but a the same time a little contemporary. Doesn’t help that I put mission hardware on it. The customer was real specific on certain design aspects, including hole placement in the back. The top is a torsion style top to match the thickness of the post. Wood Type: Maple, Poplar, and MDF Finish: Pigmented lacquer Hardware: Mission from CSHardware.com Date Completed: March 2013 For more building pictures see my Current Projects link at wwbeds.com or poggyskids.com. See what we are doing live:

Some time this summer I’ll be gaining another 96 sq ft for the shop, so taking down a partition wall that now separates my work space from my wife’s gardening stuff. All I had to do was build her a garden shed. :) Anyways, this will give me an opportunity to rearrange the shop quite a bit. My table saw sits pretty much smack in the middle of my current 16×18 space.I’m looking at the operations I do on the saw. I never have the fence on the left of the blade. I don’t crosscut long boards. I don’t break down 4×8 sheet goods on the table saw. (I have a sliding miter, 14” band saw, and a new Makita circular saw as well). I’m considering putting the table saw against a wall such that the far right of the fence rail is against (not actually touching) the wall. Can you think of a reason NOT to do this?

Before I get to the new listings- I wanted to let you know about something very cool! Close To My Heart is releasing one of our new Fall/Winter 2013 sets a few months early. This "M" size stamp set is a fundraiser for Oklahoma Tornado Relief Efforts amd 100% of profits will go to the Red Cross's Oklahoma fund. This is a wonderful opportunity to help through your papercrafting hobby. The set retails for only $2.95! You can order yours here.This is the set: To give you size perspective - it will fit on a 2"x2" block.Thanks so much for helping this worthwhile cause!! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Continuing to list my sale items... I have too much stuff! Delivery Options Local pick up $1.75 USD cost includes Shipping $2.75 USD Delivery Options Local pick up $6.00 USD cost includes Shipping $7.50 USD

Don't you just love when a gift can be made for under $10? I call this one a "thrifty gifting project". My mom wanted a shadowbox frame for her office. I found this double framed one on the clearance aisle at Michael's. And I'm so addicted to the Moxie Fab World challenges that I'm linking this one up to the 350 Cards & Gifts Week: The Gift Challenge. I dressed it up with paper from the GCD Studios Indian Summer collection. I also added baby embellishments. My Lifestyle Crafts die-cuts came in handy too. The gift was not complete until I added a cute photo of my nephew Tristan. He is modeling his new ducky hat. Love this circle sentiment too. I hope you guys have a great Memorial Day weekend!

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