Changing the wood one shaving at a time ;0)
This is the second project I built for my nieces last month. B’s Swedish Ladder can be seen here. L’s loft shares the same wall in the opposite room and was quite the puzzle to figure out. As I was cutting dado after dado into the beams I kept hoping that I had in face… Continue reading Loft Above Bed for L
I had never even heard of Swedish Ladders until my sister approached me to build one for her daughter. This little girl needs to climb, like a fish needs water :0). This is a first draft of what I designed for her to climb on. I ended up changing my mind on the spacing so… Continue reading Climbing Wall with a Swedish Ladder
One Saturday a while ago I let the kids watch way to much TV, drove 45 minutes to the “Big City” and walked around Hobby Lobby for a good two hours. While I was there I found some clip board clips. My first idea for them was a flop...but after I learned to make ocean… Continue reading Clipboards can be fun ;0)
We are getting ready to participate in a Children’s Craft Fair and Bake Sale Charity event. Half of the sales and all of the raffle ticket proceeds will be donated to the local domestic violence shelter. The kids have been working hard on various projects for a while now. Currently our house has been transformed… Continue reading The Shop is Overflowing with Ocean Scenes
I’ve really enjoyed having my end grain floor in the shop! There is a huge difference just stepping up onto it from the concrete next to it. I think all of the time I put into laying it has paid off. It has fulfilled it’s two primary goals: 1) It’s easier on the joints to… Continue reading Shop Floor Update
This whole desk adventure started with the twins, Mary and Cora. I had decided to build a wall to separate what was their room with the TV area in the basement and build a large corner desk unit for them to share. I had drawn the plans, bought the plywood, cut the plywood...and then Cora… Continue reading Mary & Cora’s Christmas Desks
Keeping kids organized is a full time job ;0). With so many moves and furniture never fitting the same in the new house, it’s been easy to put off making/buying furniture for each kid that wasn’t temporary in nature. The basement still needs some updating...I keep putting it off in hopes we will be able… Continue reading Wesley’s Christmas Desk
All the pieces to the Adirondack chair I started on in late June have been taking up space on one work surface or another for months. After all, this was the project that sent me to the ER back in July and I found plenty of other things to work on. Now that it’s colder,… Continue reading Peace with the Router Table
Everybody learns differently: some people research and research before they try things, others of us like to try things first to figure out what we don’t know, then go do a little more research about what went wrong ;0) It’s easier for me to remember why you do things a certain way when you’ve experienced… Continue reading Lessons in Milling Logs
We used to have a wind row of spruce trees on the east side of our house.
Girl with a Hand Plane 