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Sweet memories and sad candy just doesn't taste the same as it use too.

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The excitement of this laser engraver is finding new materials to engrave on. New materials mean a host of new innovative products that people would be interested in buying and especially now during the holiday seasons. When Kantyli.com opened its online store we hardly had any products to show except for the ECCLESIA church book and the poster that went with it were the only two products that I had and sold. That’s until I started to engrave picture frames in Greek. I remember showing a sample that had an engraving that basically said, “Yasou”. Showed it to my wife...

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A project that I've been putting off for some time, a large architectural model for the Parliaments of the World's Religion located here in Chicago. This synagogue is located in Wilmette is North Shore Congregation Israel built at the scale of 1/4" to a foot. Large and complicated with many intersections that make this a nightmare of pre-planning and concentration. A friend of mine was visiting me the other day as an former architectural professional he was asking me how my jobs were coming along. He was surprised when he learned the model was still here. He asked me what's...

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Loukoumades and the machine to make them.

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Why this Greek Festival could not get its' loukoumades right.

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