Changing the wood one shaving at a time ;0)
The barn door is up in the bathroom!!! I still need to put crown molding around the top of the cabinet, find a handle for the door, but at least it is up!! I showed the door in progress in my Sawtooth Alder post, here is the rest of the cabinet. I used some left over AC… Continue reading Bathroom Cabinet
This post might more accurately be named: Wooden Pulley Wheels take 2 & 3. I had just gotten two done, started painting them when I realized there was something wrong and they were not going to work :0/
This one's for my sis...who seems to think I never fail at anything. It's not true, I fail all the time. No biggie, I just keep looking for the one way that actually works for me. Yesterday I failed at making pulley wheels for my bathroom cabinet door.....tomorrow I have a few more ways to try ;0)
This might be my new favorite thing for a while. I was going to just stain this project then paint over it with milk paint and have some of the dark show through after sanding, but was pleasantly surprised with how the stain itself turned out.
I like drawing things by hand, there are times I can't seem to think through what I am doing without a pencil in my hand.
I don't spend a lot of time on Pinterest, I mostly use it if there is something I want to do and need to figure out exactly how I want to do it. I think I was trying to figure out how to finish my wood floors or something related when I stubbled across "End… Continue reading Herringbone End Grain Floor
About a year ago we bought a Woodmaster 725 off the classifieds. I'd never heard of Woodmaster, so I looked them up and one of the touted features on their website was the ability to make curved molding. Pretty much had to have it after that because my head was filled with visions of arches, ellipses,… Continue reading Curved Molding
This is the third of the three toy boxes I put together this spring. About a week after I finished it, I looked closer and realized I had used the door stop I bought for the Library Closet Door as trim, oops! That's what happens when you're building stuff out of the "scraps" in your shop ;0)… Continue reading Toy Box Construction
One of the hardest things as a parent can be letting a child "help" with something you are building for them. Over the last few weeks I have put together 3 toy boxes out of scraps from the shop for my 4 youngest kids and some of them have wanted to "help" paint. 6… Continue reading Toy Boxes: Letting the Child be more Important than the Project
An overview of all the paint and finishes I love to use on my projects.
Girl with a Hand Plane 