Quick Check In

We have been working on miscellaneous indoor projects over the past couple of weeks.  Mainly I am trying to finish the chair so I can clear that out of the workshop and set up for seed starting.   

One project we completed was adding two narrow shelves to our blank bedroom wall.  This is for some of my horse related collectibles.  We've been talking about doing it for several years now.  The board is the last long plank left from a tree cutting project over 35 years ago.  It came from a red oak tree my husband had to cut when he built the house next door in 1988 where he lived when we met.  The rest of the lumber has been used in many projects over the years, most notably the face frames of the kitchen cabinets in this house in 2004.  It had to be sanded and cut to length and sealed.  This wall was once the outside wall of the house before someone added the bedrooms on in the 19teens or so.  It is one inch thick Hemlock tongue and groove and even after it was pre-drilled it was rock hard and impervious to screws.  

These shelves are amazing.  You could do chin-ups on them and nothing jiggles when you walk by unlike nearly every other display surface in this house.  I was surprised to find, when we had to remove one screw and try again, that ancient Hemlock is still sappy and smells of fresh pine.  My husband's grandparents purchased this house over 100 years ago and these bedrooms were already added on at that point.  Now all of my dustable shelf sitters are in a state of flux as I try to optimize my space and get collections grouped together.

I have created a craft station in the corner of our dining room.  This was a result of the egg ornament project.  I hate having projects spread out all over the dining room table and this little side table tends to be a catchall of things that need dealing with.  So I set everything up over here trying to have both spaces more purposeful.  

Most of my supplies fit in the drawer and the ornament tools and the sewing machine tools fit in the little toolbox which I decorated with Singer Featherweight Sewing Machine decals.  I have been buying trim and jewelry pieces and trying out ornament designs for new Push Pin Ornament creations.  

I will start on an idea then realize I need something else so I shop and those new arrivals spark additional new ideas.  I am about at the point of storing these away until next fall when the Christmas decorating spirit strikes again.  I would like to add a work station self like you use to raise a computer monitor along the back of this table.  That will probably be another wood working project so it fits the available space correctly.

And finally there is the $1 chair project.  I am one step away from being done.  I need a block of at least two hours to put the binding around the edge because once you start that you can't stop and I only have enough cane to do it once with no istakes.  I will write a blog about the chair, but in the mean time, here is a sneak peak.