Functional Woodwork for your Home
The quarantine took us all by surprise. Life was turned upside down it felt. A coping mechanism of mine kicked into place quickly- “this is just temporary, it won’t last forever” were things I began telling myself. This mechanism works well most of the time but for COVID-19, it began to bite me in the …
Juan initially wanted a desk. A larger desk than what he currently had. One that was sturdy so that he could put his IT stuff on it. “Sure,” I said. I could do that. Then he wanted it to have an adjustable height. “Sorry, can’t do that,” I told him- I don’t work with metal …
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost four months since I’ve posted anything here. So much for my goal to post “regularly.” Good thing I didn’t make my goal time-specific. This doesn’t mean I haven’t been out in the garage- it just means that in my list of what I want to get done each …
The whole Covid-19/social distancing/stay-at-home order has come with challenges just as it has for everyone around me. The first week that we were all home was rough. Juan and I were adjusting to the constant go-go-go of our kids while trying to meet the expectations of our jobs remotely. We realized how lucky we were …
I hate to use the infant car seat comparison again but here it is. Do you remember the first time your child vomited in their car seat? You had to take the thing apart so you could get every bit of vomit from every nook and cranny. Putting the car seat back together brought a …
This project came at the request of my neighbor for whom I had already made the sewing table. She was now requesting a table which she could stand at and cut fabrics. She also wanted one that would sit overtop of her sewing table when it wasn’t in use since she had limited space. In …
The field of eating disorders, or nutrition in general, can be very overwhelming (as I’m sure a lot of people will say that about their own field). First of all, nutrition is constantly changing- there’s always new research out there and one person’s body can respond differently to one diet than the next person. Twenty …
When my neighbor asked for an estimated date of completion for her table, I thought for sure I could finish it in 3 weeks. What I failed to realize is that 1) holidays are a difficult time to get into the garage for me and 2) you never know when your kids will get sick, …
That is a good question- one that I’ve been asking myself. What happened to writing a post at least every other week? What happened to finishing a project each month? Well, lack of electricity got in the way- but also life. The first issue came with my circuit breaker in the garage. I’m not sure …
Since Halloween is such a big holiday for my husband, I knew better than to schedule clients in my private practice for that evening. So what did this mean? I essentially had a day off with about 5 hours where the sitter would be watching the kids. Yay! I thought a lot about this day …
Up until my box-making class, I kind of thought that the Woodworkers’ Club was simply a place where people could come and use top of the line equipment to build things for their homes. Little did I know that it was also housing some truly amazing artists. During my first two classes there, I think …
When I had my first child, I finally began to understand peoples’ comments about how painful it is to try to read an instruction manual. When the manual begins with talk of decapitation and ejection during a collision, I think anyone would find it hard to focus on what feels like 8 point font after …