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 …
