this is from a post I had on my profile a couple of days ago....
feel free to chime in your answers in the comments section!
You may be a Metalsmith if..........
Carolyn Shepard Miller
you have dreams of flaring out a spinner ring
you picture your lungs and brain coated with silver and gold
Maureen Brusa Zappellini
the nastier your fingers look the happier you are (cause it means you have had bench time)
Pam Chott
You have a drill "tattoo" on at least one finger.
Your husband (or wife) suspects you're having an affair with your bench.
You'd rather shop for stones than clothes.
Your husband (or wife) suspects you're having an affair with your bench.
You'd rather shop for stones than clothes.
Shannon Conrad
The smell of machine oil is a turn on.
You can't remember what your hands looked like with fingernails.
You've ever said, "Just one more {fill in the blank} and I'll be done for the day."
You can't remember what your hands looked like with fingernails.
You've ever said, "Just one more {fill in the blank} and I'll be done for the day."
Erkki Kokko
...if you #%@&¤#@% like a pirate, when you break the sawblade just when you are almost there, on the end of piercing...
Maureen Brusa Zappellini
you have a difficult time putting a negative connotation on the word "tool"
Daniel Spirer
you ask your wife to send your body to the refiner when you die...
because you know there's some value in there.
Victoria Lansford
If when you have money you by metal and stones and if there is any leftover you buy food and clothes.
any more? :-)
happy thanksgiving!- MBZ
You are tired from a long night at the bench so you splash water on your face after you borax and soap your hands to remove metal slivers,but you wake up in the morning and you have metal shavings on your pillow and in your bed from your hair :)
ReplyDeleteper "metalsmitten" on twitter---metalsmitten
ReplyDelete..... if it confuses you when people start talking about pickle like it's a food.
You cant wait for all this "holiday crap" to be over so you can get back to your bench! :D
ReplyDeleteyou sleep with a notebook by your bed
ReplyDeleteare prone to spontaneous meltdowns during soldering jobs
would rather be at your bench than socializing
You don't realize you have a black smudge on your face till after you have run all those errands in town.
ReplyDeletethey know you in the local hardware store as "that chick that buys hammers, pliers, copper sheets, random washers, and copper pipes, but isn't a roofer or plumber or anything like that"
ReplyDeletethey know you in the local used hardware store as well as "that chick that buys hammers, pliers, copper sheets, random washers, and copper pipes, but isn't a roofer or plumber or anything like that"
ReplyDeleteyou could use up a box of band aids for your fingers in one day, no problem
ReplyDelete...you don't charge enough from your works!
ReplyDelete..and they know you at the welding supply as "that chick that exchanges tanks that isn't a welder"
ReplyDelete... you've ever filed a broken fingernail with a #3 swiss barrette file....
ReplyDeleteYou need to hang a picture and you wont use any of your hammers because you polished the faces!
ReplyDeleteYour the only one of your friends who has never had a manicure.
ReplyDeleteSqueezing that lemon into your Corona suddenly makes you realize you have quite a few hand "issues".
ReplyDeleteouch! how about--- you use super glue regularly to mend your fingertips..(above the protests of my husband, who thinks I need to just take a few days of...HA!)
ReplyDelete...your idea of a manicure is tin snips and a riffler file :)
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