All my projects, both past and present.
Our Friends in the Underbrush! Occasionally, when my eyes start to turn from squinting at all the fine detail work that goes into my ‘Unseelie Portals’, or when my back hurts from cutting and shaping larger pieces of wood for the ‘Signs of the Zodiac’ series, I want something a bit lighter to work on, …
Art shows can be dangerous! For an artist, walking from booth to booth, taking in all the different applications of media and expressions of imagery, can instill an overpowering need to take what you have seen and create something of your own. It’s even worse if you take the time to talk with the artists …
A place to put the scary things! Having completed construction of a number of Goblin Mines, it soon felt like the time was ripe to begin another project in my ‘Unseelie Portals’ series – a collection of Fairy Doors designed to house the “less savory” of fairy folk. If you missed my post describing …
And now a little something for our nocturnal friends! When I started this whole new phase of my work, birdhouses seemed the obvious place to start. It’s easy to get lost in all the possibilities, and I’ve spent seemingly countless hours working on new and exciting variations on that particular theme. But as much …
Going down where the Goblins Go – BELOW! This was a project I’d been wanting to ‘dig’ into for a SO very long! For years now I’ve been seeing more and more Fairy Doors for sale, both online and at craft or renaissance festivals. These miniature doors, usually brightly colored with rounded tops, are typically intended for …
Restless Spirits It all began with an idea and a rough little sketch on a piece of scrap lumber. I had been kicking around the idea of doing a haunted house themed birdhouse for a while. I’d fiddle with designs here and there, but could come up with an idea that I actually liked. …
Waste not – Want not! The problem, you see, is that I hate scrap! I design a thing…, Gather the materials…, Take the measurments…, Double-check them…, …and then finally start cutting away the bits I don’t need and putting things together. And when I’m all done, I’ve got two things in front of me…, …
Sometimes, function follows form. Not long after I’d started working on my Cozy Cottage style birdhouses, I had the urge to change things up a bit. I was actually looking for something simpler, a no-frills alternative to the detail intensive cottage birdhouses I’d been working on. Beginning with the tried and true nesting …
The gift that keeps on giving! So many of us were looking for projects during the height of the Pandemic. For myself, it was throwing myself into various woodworking projects, a few benches, a rolling stand for my new scroll saw — mostly practical endeavors. For my mother, it was refurbishing an old storage shed …
