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Roughly 1/3 of a century old. I am a father of two, and a very lucky husband to my beautiful wife Jennifer. We are all very active, and love the outdoors. We camp, hike, and geocache as a family. we have 16 or so pets, ranging from a black widow to toads to snakes canines and everything in-between. We are active Catholics and attend mass regularly at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Amarillo Texas. My wife is very active in the Parish, and volunteers with our friends "The Sisters of Prayer Town" the Nuns of the order "Disciples of The Lord Jesus Christ". Jennifer has had Leukemia for about 6 years now, and has been kicking it's A$$. Now the time has come for a bone marrow transplant. Pray for us, and God Bless.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

These are my creations; Plush Geocaching Trackables (hand sewn)

I bought Aubry a candy cane Geocoin for christmas, I also bought matthew a shark "Cachekinz" (TM) trackable shark tag.

Naturally, Aubry wants to add her Geocoin to her collection of pathtags, and other special coins, and finds. However, she still wants to use the tracking feature of her coin. Her coin is an "Oakcoins" brand polished silver and enamel finish Geocoin. It comes with it's own custom icon (a candy cane) that is displayed on Geocaching.com when the item is logged, or viewed. So as to take the best of both worlds, allowing Aubry to keep her shiny new coin, and still let it travel the globe, I hand sewed a plush candy cane toy and attached a custom made "Quick Tag" pet ID tag engraved at wal-mart.
( TB3AB8D )
"A Blue Christmas"

It took me about 4 1/2 hours to make the candy cane. the above photo shows both sides of the same plush. I got started on a whim, at about 11:30 PM and did not finish and get to bed till almost 5:00 AM!

After much vain admiration of my own work, I decided that I now needed to make Matthew a special plush for his shark Cachekinz Travel Bug:

My fingers are worn out, as is my patience for today, but I'll definitely try again soon.

I'll try to release them in Kansas this week while on a business trip. If not able, then I assume we will all try to go Caching this next weekend (New Years!!)

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