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Those of you who have Katie as a contact will know that earlier in the year we had to put our cat Rosie to sleep, she was 19 years old and failing badly in health. After much heart searching, we decided to have a look for another cat, one that was mature and needed a home.
We eventually settled on Dinks, a five kilo, tabby short hair six year old male, who had had a rather sad time of it. We have had him about 12 weeks and he has completely taken over the house, he is the happiest guy you could ever meet, constantly having Kate and I laughing with his mad antics, he talks all the time and follows me around like a dog, letting you know when he wants to play or go out, be.
I have a visitors chair in the computer room, which he has taken over and settles down on it till I shut the PC down when he jumps to the floor to see where I am going.
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Title Page - Illustrated by Richard Scarry
Little Golden Book, based on the CBS TV show, Winky DInk and You
This is my son, several years ago. Not a good place to ride a bicycle, blackberry thorns all over the place. I did many different versions of this, dinking around. I'll show some of them later. This was probably taken with a little point and shoot Kodak 35mm camera. I feel it goes with the previous picture because they both have scenery and both have at least one bicycle in the foreground, but in her picture, the bicycle that is being held up by someone, is not very apparent. In my picture, it is the focal point.
Oh, and yes, this is the same child who was in the mailbox picture that so many people liked.
For the If These Walls Could Talk, I think they would say; "What is that nicely dressed guy out there doing with a bicycle? The blackberry thorns are gonna kill his tires. He could be inside here with the gray diggers/squirrels, and all kinds of straw/hay and a colossal amount of Chevy hubcaps? There are even some horses on the other side of the barn. He could ride them instead of a bicycle. He must be the owner's son from up north. He surely doesn't live around here."
We made shrinky dink rings today. At front are Bubbie's cute sunshines. Back left is Mac's gold "one ring" and back right is my third(!) attempt at making a ring with Psalm 27:4 on it.
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Notes for anyone else wanting to try it:
For my 8-y-o boys' fingers (and our particular brand of shrink film) it seemed that cutting a rectangle 5-3/4" x 1/2" worked best (that's 14.5 cm by 1.25 cm) - it shrunk to about 2-3/8" by 3/16" (6 cm by .5 cm.)
Probably 6" (15.2 cm) would be best for most women - I have small hands so I used the kid size. Different brands shrink different amounts - and the cheaper brands want to shrink more one direction than the other - so you'll have to experiment.
We sanded regular clear shrink film, and used Sharpie markers (Bubbie and Mac) and colored pencil (ring on right.) Then we shrunk them at 300°F (lowest temp recommended) in a toaster oven for 5 minutes (longer than suggested), covered with parchment to keep the ring from curling wrongly.
When the timer rang I worked quickly to wrap the hot plastic around a Crayola marker, which was about the right size. (Legally I need to say: DO NOT attempt this at home, obviously, since you might burn your fingers. I worked quickly and after doing five rings, some several times in a row, got a slight burn on one finger. Well worth it for me, but your mileage may vary - of course I won't recommend anyone else risking their own fingers.)
Once I got the ring wrapped around backwards, and several times the plastic cooled too much before I got it bent enough. No problem, I just stuck the ring back in the oven for another two to three minutes. It invariably flattened out again, but it softened and after a few times I got the hang of it, or else got lucky.
If you write or draw backwards on the sanded plastic, you can bend it around the other direction so that the writing is underneath with all the clear shrinky film on top. That's what I did on the ring on the right, and it gives it a nice shiny look. Bubbie's and Mac's (center and left) are bent with the sanded-and-drawn side facing out.
An old "shrinky dink" ornament I made in grade school that's still on my Mom's tree. I remember baking it in the oven.
DYER DHOW 8 ft. Sailing Dinghy. An excellent sample of the very popular, very handsome sailing dinghy. Boat is in very good overall condition and includes all spars and rigging, but no sail. Untitled, unregistered smallcraft not intended for motorization. $950
Modesto Metro Conference junior varsity volleyball between the Thomas Downey High School Knights and the James Enoch High School Eagles.
San Diego's Megan Jacobsen was ready for a possible dink from Nebraska's setter but it turned out Sidney Hilley was just setting from a bit close to the net.
Boob & Dinks
by Shannon Gerard
Installation as part of DIwhy?
The Ontario Crafts Council
Toronto, ON
January 20 - March 1, 2009
Boob & Dinks
by Shannon Gerard
Installation as part of DIwhy?
The Ontario Crafts Council
Toronto, ON
January 20 - March 1, 2009
A "dink" was a hat worn by male freshmen students at Duke. The dink, marked with the wearer's class year, was required to be worn by male freshmen each day of the fall semester, unless Duke won the Duke-UNC football game in the fall. Dinks were a way to readily identify freshmen on campus. This dink was worn in 1944 by a member of the Class of 1948.
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
Trying to locate this photo at the Duke University Archives? You’ll find it in the Artifacts and Relics Collection.