What a guy! When Sandy's husband, Gary, saw her tracing her patterns...using the window in their dining room for a light source...he had a light-bulb idea! Using materials from HIS STASH...(yes, real men have a stash, only it involves nails, lumber and wires...)....Gary went to work and built her a Light Box!
Check it out!
You don't need fancy materials...just what you can find in hubby's tool shed!
With just a few simple ingredients...Presto! Let there be light!
So now Sandy just needs to tape on that project, plug it in and presto, she is in business!
What a guy! Gary knows that when mama is happy, everyone is happy! And yes, Sandy is HAPPY!!
What about you...do you own a light box? No...? Well, next time you need to trace a pattern, wait for hubby to be around before you tape your pattern up onto the window...and remember to moan and groan about how your shoulder aches and how you now have to clean the tape residue off the window...WORK! WORK! WORK! I bet he will jump up so fast to get that light-box built for his little woman that it will make your head spin! Yup...I bet that's what will happen...:o)
Enjoy that light-box, Sandy! You are one lucky woman!
Have a magic Monday and Happy tracing!~P
OMG, Sandy you lucky devil. I love it. Can all the other woollies borrow your husband to make them 1 too?? It's so nice be home after 2 weeks on holiday with daughter and family incl 2 giant teenaged boys! Thank you for this column!!
ReplyDeleteLucky lady to have a handy husband! I have a small light box from JoAnn's. It works okay - but I still end up taping to the window. LOL
ReplyDeleteWhat a guy! No more window tracing for as Sandy!
ReplyDeleteI rescued my "biggly" lightbox from going to the surplus medical supply storage warehouse! It was a double wall mounted xray lightbox that was no longer utilized now that everything comes from radiology in a digital format! It had been hardwired into the wall, but my husband wired it with a cord...now all it needs to do is grow some sturdy legs! I'd like to have it sitting on a slant like a drafting table.
ReplyDeleteWell, Paulette, did Rick get the hint?????
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Sandy might have to wear sunglass! So much better than the window.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't have a handy DH. Get a piece of plexi glass and take the leaf out of your table and replace with the plexi glass. Put a desk light on the floor underneath.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't have a handy DH. Get a piece of plexi glass and take the leaf out of your table and replace with the plexi glass. Put a desk light on the floor underneath.
ReplyDeleteMy hubs made me one like that years ago but it was angled so I didn't have to lean over it to trace. Unfortunately it bit the dust and he's gone now so I bought a really spiffy one a couple of years ago but haven't even used it once that I recall. Oh well, I know it's there.
ReplyDeleteBill made me a large one once but it was too big, now I could use it and he told me he got rid of it, errr.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
no hubby but |I bought a light box years ago and find it so good hen I need to transfer designs would be lost without it
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