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, …
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 …
