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Creating yard lizzards!
Creating and personalizing crafty ideas to enhance your personal exterior space! Yard lizards in bold and beautiful colors will be warm and welcoming!

Springtime is on the horizon and this is the perfect time to get creative and work on some personalized lawn décor for your home. Why spend a lot of money buying the typical, generic lawn and yard décor when you can create something that really speaks who you are?

** Tool of the week**

WOOD CHISEL~
A chisel is a tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge (such that wood chisels have lent part of their name to a particular grind) of blade on its end, for carving or cutting a hard material such as wood, stone, or metal. The handle and blade of some types of chisel are made of metal or wood with a sharp edge in it.

In use, the chisel is forced into the material to cut the material. The driving force may be manually applied or applied using a mallet or hammer. In industrial use, a hydraulic ram or falling weight ('trip hammer') drives the chisel into the material to be cut.

A gouge, one type of chisel, is used, particularly in woodworking, woodturning and sculpture, to carve small pieces from the material. Gouges are most often used in creating concave surfaces. A gouge typically has a 'U'-shaped cross-section.


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