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ST blocks can be swapped if different diameters are used. All bolted connections are pinned for disassembly without losing alignment.
41 Toy Blocks with Pine Box
Made from dimensional scraps of Hemlock, Cedar, and Fir, this set was inspired by both a cherished set of these I had when I was a kid, and a huge set of blocks I built for a local daycare many years ago. It gave me great joy to hear that those blocks were the most popular toy they had. In fact, those very blocks are still in use, but now in our kid’s playroom!
Since this set of blocks are made from scraps you can still see on some the “miller’s mark”, dings, and hammer marks relating their history.
While slivers have never been an issue for us, to keep the risk of slivers or snagging splinters of such softwoods to a minimum I have rubbed the blocks with a safe, food-grade wax used in the finishing of wooden salad bowls.
The box was constructed from warped pine scraps bound for someone’s woodstove. I made the top easy for a child to not only pick up, but also to put back on the box. The box was designed to be big enough to toss the blocks inside willy-nilly for fast clean up, and I attached handles to the sides to ease the burden of parents carrying this box from room to room.
Aside from the random blocks, the set includes two arches, two half moons, two triangles, and six columns. This set has been SOLD.
David Spangler, designer/builder, REvision Division
headed to nyc with my friends Matt Zwilling and Mike Simonds for the day. it was cold and breezy which is expected so we layered up and managed to survive alright. hit up a few small shops and snapped some pictures along the way.
shot from central park.
May blocks for the Care Circle of do. Good Stitches. Blogged at: listentothebirdssing.blogspot.co.uk/
These are just some of the blocks everyone has made me for my month in the Quilting bee. Some of them I tried to upload into this set but I was not allowed to.
1. Block #2 for Darci, 2. Traditional Log Cabin- February, 3. for darci, 4. for darci, 5. wonky squares, 6. Cottage Quilting Bee <3 The Darci Block, 7. Darci's block, 8. Log Cabin 4 Darci, 9. Cottage Quilting Bee -Feb '09 For Darci, 10. for darci, 11. 3225282085_57e975edd0_b, 12. 3225282077_340ca2aea5_b, 13. Darci2, 14. Darci1, 15. IMG_darcisquare0001, 16. For Darci - February block, 17. block1, 18. block2, 19. Wonky Log Cabin- February, 20. Block #1 for Darci
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Anacortes, WA
The W.T. Preston was the last sternwheeler to work in Puget Sound and is one of only two snagboats remaining in the contiguous United States. Her crews removed navigational hazards from the bays and harbors of the Sound and from its tributary rivers.
IR Converted Olympus E-P2 + Panasonic 7-14mm
Fortune Block, 232 Main Street, Winnipeg, MB. For a building history see: winnipegdowntownplaces.blogspot.ca/2012/06/232-main-stree...
...This CSX repair train block this great mixed freight train I was benching..one of the longest mixed freights I had seen..thank goodness the repair train was short..but I missed quite a few nice pieces... View On Black
Bute Terrace: The John Lewis store, the Radisson Blu, and new apartment blocks.
A whole new commercial and residential high-rise zone of the city has sprung up here in recent years, which includes the flag-ship John Lewis apartment store, the new Cardiff Central LIbrary with a Wagamama on the ground floor, and a number of residential tower blocks.
As Cardiff joined the British high-rise revival, two previously nondescript streets have now established their presence. With no cause to know their names previously, Bute Terrace and Hayes Bridge Road now provide a locus for Cardiff's recent spate of post-modern architecture, with unprecedented height in the new apartment tower blocks and iconic commercial and public buildings in the flag-ship John Lewis apartment store and the new Cardiff Central Library.
This new area replaces the buildings of the earlier commercial property and urban redevelopment phase of the 1980s, which were demolished to make way for today's new development. Amongst the buildings that were demolished are the National Ice Rink, the flagship Toys R Us store, and the "new" St David's Link Cardiff & South Glamorgan Central Reference Library. The Cardiff International Arena remains.
I am particularly struck by the fact that the "new" Central Reference Library at St David's Link (which replaced the Victorian "Old Library" building on the Hayes), the brave new library building of the mid 1980s, has been demolished and replaced by a new building. In this recent phase of urban redevelopment we have seen the demolition of new-ish buildings which were trumpeted as the successes of new investment and development in the '80s. And to illustrate this pretty surreal succession of new buidlings by new buildings, I just happened to come across MSN Bing Maps which still shows most of the "old" new buildings still there: see photo below, which includes the National Ice Rink site now occupied by the John Lewis store.
Hence we see a speeded-up cycle of some 25 years or so in the city-centre property investment market and the lifespan of a building. This wholesale spatial transformation highlights the "creative destruction" of the city through the changing dynamic of land and capital. It's a pretty common pattern across British cities, and new cultural buildings - and new public library buildings especially - have been prominent landmarks to city centre regeneration.
Plumb block for January's Scrap Buster Bee.
Based on an idea from the book Scrap Republic.
12.5" square, framed with white Kona cotton.
Dawny spichlerz, Bei den Mühren, Hamburg, 7 października 2024 r.
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Old granary, Bei den Mühren, Hamburg, October 7, 2024
Annika Dries (USA number 11) tries to block Rita Keszthelyi of Hungary.
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Ottawa, a capital do Canadá.
Centre Block ou Édifice du centre é o prédio principal da Parliament Hill, em Ottawa, Canadá, que abriga os plénarios do Senado do Canadá e da Câmara dos Comuns. Em estilo neogótico, o Centre Block é considerado um dos maiores monumentos da cidade e do país, sendo a segundo reconstrução do prédio original.
Projetado por Jean Omer Marchand e John A. Pearson, o Centre Block possui 144 m de comprimento horizontal e 75 m de altura e é adornado com gárgulas, pinturas grotescas e frisos.
Ottawa, Canadian capital
The Centre Block (in French: Édifice du centre) is the main building of the Canadian parliamentary complex on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario, containing the Commons and Senate chambers, as well as the offices of a number of Members of Parliament and Senators, as well as senior administration for both legislative houses. It is also the location of several ceremonial spaces, such as the Hall of Honour, the Memorial Chamber, and Confederation Hall.
Built in the Gothic Revival style, the present Centre Block is the second iteration of the building, after the first was destroyed by fire in 1916; all that remains of the original building is the Library of Parliament, at the rear of the Centre Block. Though construction began immediately after the blaze, sculpting work on the interior continued through the 1970s. One of the most recognizable buildings in Canada, the Centre Block is depicted on the Canadian $10 bill (the Library of Parliament), $20 bill (the main entrance), and the $50 bill (the Peace Tower).