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Star Medal Dream Earrings

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Whenever I have a dream that I feel is significant, I try to bring an idea or product back from the dream to the waking state. I learned about this concept from reading Dr. Patricia Garfield’s books and her work with the Senoi dreamers of the Peninsular Malaysia.

One example of an idea I brought back from a dream is a pair of Star Medal Dream Earrings. I had them made up by a jeweler. Here is one of the earrings.

I’d like to share the dream with you. This is not a recent dream, but one which I had many years ago.

“Wandering through the Oregon woods, I came across a 1930ish style town.  The entire town was having some sort of a celebration, perhaps religious.

I overheard a woman asking where is the medal that her boyfriend had sent her from France.  At that moment, a little girl standing next to her says she is so happy that Jesus has given her a star.  She says that the star medal makes her little baby brother very happy.  He smiles all the time when she shows him the medal, even though he has been sick.  The little girl knows she has something special.

Somehow, I found out that this medal was made centuries ago from the star that led the three Wisemen to Christ’s birthplace.  The night following Christ’s birth, the star burned out and fell to Earth.  What was left of the star was recovered by a craftsman and fashioned into the Star Medal.

The Star Medal has gone through countless changing of hands, and now winds up in this backwards town in Oregon.”

It was a very powerful dream and I have had several others related to it over the years.

Here is the dream image that I sketched when I awoke from the dream, and ultimately gave to the jeweler.

He put the design into his CAD program and a day later sent me this image.

I thought that they looked amazing and said, “Please make them,” and he did.

Dreams are and can be very powerful. Respect them and always try to understand what their meaning has in your life. You will not be disappointed in your effort.

1947 TV Time Machine

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The plan was to restore my 1947 Admiral TV, picked up at a garage sale. I did replace some capacitors, and although the TV did receive a picture, it was never really very good.

So a friend suggested that I gut the TV and put in a digital picture frame. I really liked the idea and set out to make the transformation.

I could sit and watch old family pictures through the decades – it would be like traveling back in time whenever I turned on the TV. My personal TV Time Machine.

In 1947, this TV was considered to be a portable. With the chassis and CRT removed, I hated to cut the case, but I’d never get it on my shelf if I did not.

The case is empty, cut in half, and sits on the shelf very nicely. I secured the control knobs in place with clear silicon. They will no longer be functional.

The TV screen is 9″ across, so it’s pretty small. I did find a digital picture frame that also had an older looking color around the frame, as some of its frame will show through on the front of the TV.

All the controls for the picture frame are located on the frame itself. Since I did not want to take the frame out of the TV each time I wanted to turn it on, I added a small in-line rotary switch.

I mounted the digital frame very simply. Really, I just used some wood scraps, Velcro and a round stick to prop up the frame to the front of the TV. Nothing fancy here, but it works well.

As the old back panel no longer fit, I made a new one that completely covered the back of the case.

I loaded up some pictures and turned it on…

BAM… I am traveling through time! It’s not a Tardis, but still pretty cool.