Kids Christmas presents I built. (Pictures)

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Justin SE IOWA

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• Dec 17, 2011

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This is the barn I built for my sons 1/16th scale tractors. The other is a horse barn I built for my daughter.

 

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Dan67

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• Dec 17, 2011

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The kids should really like that..nice job

 

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Tony Vidlak

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• Dec 17, 2011

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Real nice,I bet these toys will be around for a long time. Merry Christmas
Tony

 

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Paul from MI

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• Dec 17, 2011

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What a neat idea. I have built doll beds, treasure chests,doll clothes armoires & hope chests for my grandchildren. Now I'm working doll wagons for two more of them. I have built them all out of cherry that we cut when we added on to the plant many years ago, so even the wood has a story. I'm sure they'll remember them forever!

 

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fixerupper

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• Dec 17, 2011

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You just built some heirlooms, and they are well built ones at that. Marilyn's granddad built small buildings like that for his grandkids and some of the great-grandkids. Now those buildings are treasured posessions. Jim

 

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HCooke

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• Dec 17, 2011

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Very nice! Your kids are lucky.

 

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Justin SE IOWA

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• Dec 17, 2011

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Thanks guys. If I had to guess I would say I have 30 hours in each one. I started with 1x6's and ripped everything to the width I wanted. Then started cutting to length.It was alot of fun. I just worked on them as I had time!

 

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wfw

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• Dec 17, 2011

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not a building but my Grandmother crocheted me and
my older sister a bedspread from tobacco twine. I am
58 and still using with tobacco twine to fly a kite
with. I would not take a million dollars for it. it
is safely stored in a cedar chest.

Great pictures and presents!

frank

 

omahagreg

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• Dec 17, 2011

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Very nice!

 

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JayinNY

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• Dec 17, 2011

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Real nice work, u should start selling them,, I'd buy one for
my daughter, a made in USA toy!

 

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5020s rock

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• Dec 17, 2011

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cool--i wanna be a kid again.

 

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Paul in MN

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• Dec 17, 2011

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Good for you!!

To me, this is what Christmas is really all about ..our giving of ourselves and creating something special. My Mother was really good at making us and the grandkids something special every Christmas. My wife just wants to buy crap and might accidentally get something good from a store. I am so disgusted with the commercialization of Christmas and the daily TV reports that consummers are not spending enough, it really destroys the meaning of Christmas for me. Sorry for the rant.

I hope your kids LOVE their presents!! Merry Christmas!!

Paul in MN

 

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ridgelane

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• Dec 17, 2011

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Very nice gifts!! You are a talented builder.

When my kids were young, they got homemade toys like that and to this day, they still enjoy the memories when they handle the toys. Some have been passed to the grandkids and they are getting use of them. These kind of gifts mean so much.

 

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larry@stinescorner

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• Dec 18, 2011

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that is really nice,it will be passed on forever, what a great thing to do

 

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Nebraska Cowman

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• Dec 18, 2011

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Oh yeah, lucky kids! I've always thought it would be
cool to make a scale replica of the barn I grew up
in. But I know I will never take the time to do it.

 

showcrop

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• Dec 18, 2011

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Great job! I hope that the kids will respect them. Hopefully their parents will watch out for that. Back about '79 when the economy was really bad, and we had no money I made my daughter a set of wooden blocks with many different sizes, like my father had made, she and her younger brother got a lot of mileage out of them.

 

Vito

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• Dec 18, 2011

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Real nice presents.I loved getting hand made things when I was a
kid and still do today.

Vito

 

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James Howell

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• Dec 18, 2011

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Most of the best presents are ones that can't be bought at any store.

Your daughter will never forget the horse barn you've built for her.

Very good work.

Thanks for sharing your photos with us.

 

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scotc

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• Dec 18, 2011

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I thought of that too, building or having built 1:16 scale barns after ours. But then I realized that one of our freestall barn would be 6 x 10.

 

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Rich Iowa

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• Dec 18, 2011

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Looks like you did a great job on building those barns for your kids. The buildings look well built to handle all the abuse kids will eventually deal out.