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okie11.bsky.social
@okie11.bsky.social
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Retired professor who still likes to write and to make designs using wood veneers. Love the PNW.
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Latest group of marquetry bookmarks.
#marquetry
#wood
#woodworking
#quilting
#veneers
12 bookmarks made using marquetry. Woods are walnut, lacewood,birch,purple heart, zebrawood, wenge,teak,and others. Designs include flowers, diamonds, heart,circle,and others
August 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Enjoying sea creatures in Edmonds, Washington.
A naturalist explains low tide effects to interested people. The pier in the background is perhaps 20 feet high because of the low tide. A pink starfish lies on the beach at low tide. Sea anemones attached to walls and rocks. They resemble blobs of jelly.
June 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Marquetry bookmarks. Wood veneers include mahogany, curly maple, walnut, paduak, purple heart, and zebrawood.
#marquetry
#woodart
#woodworking
#woodveneers
#quilt
#quilters
#quilt designs
Bookmarks are six inches long and have a design near one end. Half of the designs are abstract tulips on a stem. The rest are a variety of quilt block designs.
May 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Purple starfish, orange cucumber, anemones at low tide at Edwards Beach, WA.
#wildlifephotography
#MacroMonday
#sealife
Purple starfish on a rock. "Orange cucumber. " Mouth is the feathered portion at the top end. Two anemones. They look like blobs of orange and red jelly.
May 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Low tide on Memorial Day at Edmonds, WA. Naturalists explained the wonders normally under water. Starfish, anemones, crabs, and Turkish Towel seaweed.
Naturalist explaining sealife to visitors. This spot would be under water at high tide. Pier in the distance. Various anemones attached to rocks or walls. Anemones are jelly-like creatures. Some are red,some brown, some yellow. Purple starfish attached to a rock. Shell. Note lines radiating from the point and other lines running perpendicular to the others.
May 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Three marquetry bookmarks. Abstract tulips.
#Marquetry
#Woodart
#Wood
#Woodworking
#Bookmarks
#Artyear
1. Background Spanish Cedar, stem birch, head purple heart. 2. Background purple heart, tulip dyed silver. 3. Background dyed silver, tulip zebrawood.
May 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Philodendron, based on a large philodendron in The Spheres Garden in Seattle. My third attempt at marquetry.
#artyear
#marquetry
#woodworking
#woodart
#veneers
A large philodendron in an 8x8 frame. Leaf is teak, veins are Birch, and the background is cherry.
May 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Why we love the PNW in the spring.
Japanese Flowering Cherry in full bloom.
April 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Three #marquetry hot air balloons. The inspiration: a balloon by Robert Johnson. My balloon cut with a craft knife, and the other cut with a laser cutter. Still definitely a novice.
#marquetry
#parquetry
#woodworking
#woodart
#quilting
Vertical striped baloon over distant and foreground mountains. Unknown woods. Vertical striped balloon with silver and blue dyed and purple heart veneers. Sky is Birch. Distant mountain is wenge. Foreground mountain is paduak. Vertical striped balloon with purple heart and paduak veneers. Sky is birch. Distant mountain is walnut. Foreground mountain is cherry.
April 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Finally warm enough to get some varnish on winter projects.
Two hot air balloons, three repeating cubes, and three abstract.
April 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Theodore Roosevelt once said "Of all forms of tyranny, the least attractive and most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth."
March 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I call this piece Wood Veneer Color Wheel. It was inspired by #Gwen Fisher's Water Color Color Wheel.
Seven cubes with one corner sliced off. Spanish Cedar, Teak, Mahogany, Paduak, Purple Heart, Walnut, Wenge. Corners are Birch. #Gwen Fisher's color wheel.
March 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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A Christmas Tree someone made years ago from pins belonging to my MIL and SIL.
#pins
#MakersMARTch
A Christmas Tree probably 30x25 made of hundreds of costume jewelry pins. The circles surround Christmas lights inserted from the back.
March 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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My first attempt at abstract marquetry. Eleven kinds of wood veneers. Details in alt txt. Constructive comments encouraged.
#MakersmARTch
#marquetry
#woodworkers
#woodworking
8x8 abstract marquetry with circles and other shapes. Birch, blue dyed, maple, cherry, mahogany, Padua,shapeless, heart, sapele, teak, wenge.
March 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Wood veneer piece
#makersmARTch
#woodworking
#woodworkers
8x8 wall hanging made from various woods
March 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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A present from my granddaughter.
#Socks
#FebruARTy
Multi-colored socks with "Cool-Ass Grandpa" on the sides.
February 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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When you are so depressed with the political situation, you go to the shed for some "wood scrap therapy. "
A bunch of miscellaneous shaped veneer scraps taped together.
February 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Large and small.
#FebruARTY
#woodworking
#wood art
Two Tumbling Blocks in frames. One is 8x8, and the other is 4x4.
February 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I need an idea for a homemade balance scale to weigh a package without a postal scale.
February 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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My entry for #FebruARTY. A 3000 piece WIP. The sky is done and the mountains are coming along, but the foreground is all multi-colored flowers.
Half-done 3000 piece puzzle taking up our dining room table. Sky over mountains is done, but the foreground will be all multi-colored flowers.
February 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I need a new word for leftovers you eat BEFORE the main meal, as in slices of Christmas ham you eat three days before Christmas.
December 21, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Here's my latest 8x8 piece using the Tumbling Blocks design with zebrawood.
December 15, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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Mariner's Compass, Tumbling Blocks, and Cube. Most of my pieces use patterns from my wife's quilt books.
December 8, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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I make wall hangings from wood veneers.
November 30, 2024 at 9:46 PM