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12/21/2014

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We celebrated Christmas a bit early at our household.  I have been working on a couple pieces for presents.  Now that they have been given I can share them to all who are interested.
The first piece is called "Laughing Santa."  I was working on an idea earlier this year about a laughing man and his jiggling belly.  I was going to call it "Belly Laugh."  I realized it would work well as a Santa recalling the line from the poem Twas the Night Before Christmas, "and it shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly."  I ended up making 5 of these, one for each of my 4 brotheres and sisters and one for my daughter and her family.
The second piece is called "Dorothy's Shoes."  My other daughter loves "The Wizard of Oz."  I thought it would be fairly simple to make a pair of shoes click their heels 3 times.  I decide to look around the internet to see if anyone else had the same idea and there was.  It is a beautiful piece with a mechanism made of brass.  Unfortunately I can no longer locate the video demonstrating it, the best I can do is a picture.  The shoes would rotate its heels up and click 3 times and then return to the ground.  I knew if I made one it would have to do the same.  My mechanism is simple but effective.  I also was able to include a music box that plays "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as you crank it.  On the opposite side of the crank I have the wicked witch flying over the Emerald City just after skywriting "Surrender Dorothy."
I hope you enjoy them.
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Sara
1/8/2015 12:35:52 pm

I might be a bit partial, but I think the idea of the ruby slippers from the wizard of oz is great!

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