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Mancraft: From 12 Sheets of Plastic

April 23, 2011 by
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To those of us whose mancraft skills topped out with Pinewood Derby, what John Teal from the U.K. can do with 12 letter-sized sheets of plastic is indistinguishable from magic.

When we last left John, a property maintenance worker who lives in Manchester, England, he had just completed “G” in the midst of an A to Z blogging challenge. That entry, G is for Giraffe, was a fun piece that introduced me to a piece of Cockney rhyming slang I’d never heard before.

But his “P” entry blew me away. In P is for Plastic, John shows how he creates amazingly realistic models of a train starting with nothing more than 12 plain sheets of plastic.

Surely ILM is about to come calling.

And with this entry, MDB is creating a new post category called Mancraft.

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MDB Crosses the Pond

April 9, 2011 by
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MDB is delighted to welcome our first blogger from beyond these shores. Though he blogs from a good half the world away, John Teal’s email struck a chord familiar to many of us here:

“Hi, I stumbled across you guys on the net today. I was surprised to find a gathering of fellow Mormon Daddy bloggers,” wrote John. “I had almost resigned myself to being a lone man in the wilderness of Mormon Mommy bloggers!”

John has begun an A-Z blogging challenge, and just covered “G,” which he uses to introduce us to a bit of Cockney rhyming slang involving a giraffe. Fun post you won’t want to miss.

John blogs from his home in Manchester, England, where he lives with his wife and three teenage children. He’s self-employed and works in property maintenance. In his “About Me,” John writes:

“I suppose many of my outlooks on life are influenced by my LDS beliefs and general experiences.”

Meet John Teal via his post, Are You Having a Giraffe?

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