Buppa's and JJ's Grade Seven Handiwork

I have never been a handyman sort of guy, even though I was forced to take industrial arts in grades 6 and 7. We would walk to another school that had that facility and then return back to ours. Then in grades 8 and 9 of high school, I took lines of woodworking, metal work and drafting.

From the metal work course, I remember making a little spice rack that my mother kept around, I guess until she passed. Back in 7, I made a ring toss toy based on a comic book cover. I remember walking home to lunch one day, thinking what the heck can I use for a ring toy. Then I remembered my mighty mouse comic book with an arm raised. I copied the picture and made the arm longer. While I can't draw from my head, I can sometimes draw a copy resembling what I see. I don't know what happened to that. I do wonder because it wasn't too bad. I expect that it didn't come with us when we moved from Montreal to Toronto.

There were two other items that were kept for awhile. One was a trivet made out of wood, with various cuttings on the top. That one was poor, but I think it hung around for a long time, much to my embarrassment.

This other thing I still have. For whatever reason, I hung on to it after Mom passed. I did it in grade 7 when I was 12 years old. I wrote on the back and identified the grade and school, so I am not just going by memory. It is just a copper ornament. I think, but I can't be sure, that the little hook to hang it was part of the project.

Last school year, when Jonathan was in grade 7, he brought us one of his creations from school. Since we both had knick knacks from the same school grade, I thought I would photograph them together. There is some distortion here ↓ for his piece is actually a bit smaller than mine.

I lit the tea candle and took another photo. Again, his seems comparatively larger than it is because I placed it in front.

I just thought that the two grade-seven pieces by grandfather and grandson should be immortalized together.