Functional Woodwork for your Home
What happened: I hope to one day say this piece took me the longest to make- I hope I never take four months to make anything again. The design idea for the bottom section of this piece came from the fact that I had a bunch of 1”x4” pine boards. The wood had previously been …
When I first began this adventure into woodworking, I utilized the 1.5-2 hour naptimes that my kids took on the weekends to work on my projects. This worked well since it wasn’t taking time away from the little ones or leaving my husband to fly solo too often. This was going well until life started …
Remember how I said my dad gave me some equipment to get me started? Well a miter saw was one of those items. When we were loading it up into my vehicle, he very casually made a comment about how I might notice that the back fence is “off a little.” And? I was getting …
…and it wasn’t the end of the world, or me. Day #3 of my class came with instructions to do additional rip cuts. Well, I’ll call them “ripish” cuts since we were tapering legs. There was of course a jig for this and by now, the instructor was pretty confident in our skills around a …
For me, day #2 of this class was all about the rip cut. When I was a little girl in gymnastics, the phrase “psyched out” was used frequently around the gym. Someone would be standing on the beam, arms in the air, ready to do a back handspring. And they would stand there and stand …
What I wanted: I started this project with a rough sketch of what I was looking for. I knew that I wanted it to be about 20” tall (to just sit under the window sill) and about 32” wide. I also wanted it to have 2 shelves for shoes and a top shelf to put …
I took my first woodworking class, Fundamentals of Woodworking, last February at the Woodworkers Club. It was taught by a very nice gentleman who had been woodworking for 20 years and seemed to know a lot about the art. As I mentioned in an earlier post, he felt you should go ahead and purchase more …
This question came from my 3½ year old a few months ago. Silence filled the car. “Uuummmmm.” Silence was NOT filling my head. Where is this coming from? I didn’t even know she knew the word “healthy” yet. How do I respond to that? (Now don’t tilt your head and begin to think that she …
I hadn’t thought much about this bookcase in probably 20 years. This past spring, I mentioned to my dad that I was thinking about doing some woodworking projects. Somewhere in our discussion he brought up the bookcase we had built together. It took me aback. I had completely forgotten about that weekend. My mom had …
My first plan of action: kick my husband’s stuff out of thegarage. It had to happen. He’s in IT. There’s no reason that routers, switches,keyboards, etc. belong in a non-temperature controlled garage that would soonbe collecting saw dust in the smallest nooks and crannies. At least that waswhat I told him. He didn’t put up …
I’m doing this for myself- mostly. It started about a year ago- I found myself questioning my career choice. I was sitting in a session with a client when they said to me, “My daughter is never going to know what real ice cream tastes like. That stuff has too much sugar.” As I was …