Same topic. Kind of. It's a project post... but it isn't really about photography. It IS a little about art (?). Sometime even before the Bears were doing the Super Bowl shuffle, my dad and I made a pinewood derby cars. One of the later models was a metallic blue corvette with silver windows. It's the one on the right. :)
Now I don't mean any disrespect by saying this, but in the first ten attributes I would list about my dad... "crafty" isn't on the list. Maybe if you meant "cunning" it would make the top thirty??? But as far as making stuff from scratch, that's just not his thing. Every year, though, when it came time to make a pinewood derby car, he'd take me to the Dahlenberg Barn across from Jansma's Bakery (if you thought of chocolate donuts and started drooling a little, raise your hand... mmmmmmm), where my grandpa Boss worked making wood toys. My grandpa always smoked Pall Mall cigarettes... even while engaged in making sawdust in a variety of ways. I remember wondering how it was possible that he hadn't burned the place down.
