thats just HOT!!!

marry me!

**swoon**

is that an offer, wen? I know just the thing for you...

lol man i cant get away with not wearing a bra any more:) i got a kid:) sorry 4 getin off topic:) oh ya i put together a new crib to day that was a bitch:)

**smile**
April**

dana, have you seen me in my Utilikilt, wife beater, and boots? and the kilt has enough pockets for a six pack (or set of tools)...and true to kilt fashion, sans panties. meowwww;)

I just put in a mister system last weekend. I'm getting ready to build a simple box that will hold my garden hose however double as a nice little bistro table..I'm preparing to learn how to put in a washer and dryer hookup, electrical and plumbing my other next project, minor projects and such my girlfriend won't let me do anything major to the home yet..waiting patiently until she trusts that I won't f#ck it up.

pergrinekt...
thanks for the response...yeah for tribal dancers who build stuff!
kevlar would be prefered, but i know there are benefits to both...
never done tile....thats awesome.

I am waist deep in it. I recently finished the bathroom. I tore out the stall shower, built a wall put in an extra deep tub for my son Bliss and I, built up the three wall alcove, hand tiled the entire thing and put in a glass shower door and painted the bathroom. It is so awesome, Bliss LOVES it. Next I put in a kitchen bar with cabinets below it which was a fun easy lil job. Monday homo depot is dropping off a semi load for me. I am doing an entire new fence, 200 feet, and building a deck, then I am drywalling out the garage and re-putting in a window where it was stucco'd up, then I am putting in a raised garden, 15 x 8, and putting in a raised planter, retaining wall for curb appeal in the front yard up next to the house seperating it from the grass. I have spent a month tearing out 50 year old ivy in back for the fence, this included getting a great new chainsaw to cut into the ground to dig up roots, and a few stumps. After the fence is up I am doing a pond/water feature in the corner where the ivy was. I also have 15 cubic feet of topsoil in a 5.5 foot mound on my driveway to do all these things and level out a few areas of the yard.
whew..
I cannot wait to get through this list. I will be doing most next week.
As for tools I am in love with my chop saw/ table saw. I have two circ saws, two drills, a recip. saw I use a TON, I have a dremmel I use a lot and a rotary tool I don't, a chainsaw and a new wheel barrow. The things I adore are 1) getting some new tool for every new job it seems and 2) that when I am knee deep in a job and something comes up and I HAVE the tool I need to handle the unexpected. I don't know why but that just tickles me to no end. And 3) I recently got Bliss a lil homo depot tool kit with a circ saw, a drill, an electric driver, and some other adorable things. The thing work and make noise and turn and the GREAT thing is that he uses them, like the are meant to be used and he got ALL that from me. I am so amazed and touched by that. It is so sweet.

OK I am through gushing for now I need sleep because I have about 300 wheel barrow loads to move tomorrow.

Nite Nite

~Bleu

How funny. I've used a butter knife for a screwdriver and a platform shoe for a hammer. A good crafts(wo)man never blames the tools!

congrats, dana. did you really need to be any taller, though? ;)

Let me just let you know that it is entirely my pleasure to do what I do out there!

For everyone's info., www.brc-dpw.org has a lot more photos of stuff we've worked on over the years.

If visitors click on the 2000-2003 "Building BRC" sidebars, there's even more photos.

I also do a lot more, non-BM related construction stuff, including for major venues in LA as well as little side projects to keep me sane.

Hi, I'm new to this tribe (first post, anyway), so I thought this would be a good topic to introduce myself.

The first thing I built: sewed a pair of slippers when I was 5 (ain't that cute)-- followed closely by the acquisition of an erector set for my 6th Christmas. I was the son that my dad never had, I guess, so I got to help with holding the boards, getting the hammer, etc. My dad had a strange way of motivating me: I'd see something I wanted to make, he'd say "pshaw! you can't do that!", then he would take me to the leathershop/lumberyard/craft store to get whatever it would take to make it. Started a life-time of self-esteem and "I'll show you" issues, but I guess it's better than "you can't do that- now go away."

So, fast forward-- learned to sew in home-ec. They wouldn't let me take wood shop (it was only for the guys in the 70's). Made a lot of intricate little saddles, carts and other equine things during my extended teenage "horse-phase". When I was in college, I started climbing, and noticing that there was no such thing as women's climbing gear or clothing, started a little business called "InCline Designs" (my last name is Cline-- you gotta start the company once you come up with a name like that, eh?). Made outdoor clothes for clients who included petite doctors' wives who were going on exotic trips to Equador and Tibet with their husbands, and needed clothing that fit. I'd take stuff that was on the rack (NorthFace, etc), rip it to parts, scale down the pieces, and re-assemble. Learned how technical gear and clothing was designed that way.

Then got into woodworking-- once you get past the part where the equipment will maim you much more thoroughly than a sewing machine, it's pretty much working with fabric that doesn't drape as well.

Then, I went to BurningMan. The rest, as they say, is history. I've made (either by myself or collaboratively) domes, EL wire installations ("Pushing Man", which was attached behind a rickshaw and had legs on sequencers, so it looked, from across the playa, like a little man was walking behind something and pushing it. As you would expect, the *reason* I created it is a whole 'nother story). Made an EL wire bra (again with sequencers) that looks like hands pinching nipples (again another creation story for another time). The electrical projects are all done with a friend who actually enjoys soldering little teeny tiny wires. For some reason, that little art is just not for me. My latest creation for Burning Man, again collaboratively with someone who became a great friend an "co-McGyver" during the process, was "The Zion Curtain", which was about a 30-foot high theatre curtain with an electrical sign, made of suspended ropework, and which was the front gateway for the Utah Burner's Camp (you might have seen us on Catharsis between 5:00 and 5:30). I also do a lot of costumes, lately in collaboration with members of the tribe I belong to in Salt lake City (check us out on tribe at AMOTribe)

Other than that, I've been rennovating my house (by myself, dammit ;- ) for the past two years. Did my kitchen last summer (granite tile counter with glass mosaic tile edging and backsplash, granite tile entry way, lighting, etc), and now I'm working on my bathroom. More tile, and building the vanity and woodwork in a woodshop class because a) I've got a bad case of champagne taste and beer budget, b) I know exactly what I want, and of course I can't get anyone to build it for me for less than a whole pile o' money, and c) because I can. And once I get the floor in and the fixtures re-mounted, I'll actually be able to take a shower in there for the first time since I moved in two years ago! I'm planning on draining the entire hot-water heater! ;- )

So, in short, I own more power tools than most men, and I'm looking for a man who considers that sexy! ;- > Either that, or (and) some more good friends to create things with!

Chris (MadMaxine on the playa)