Christmas Goodies

These are some of the things I've done lately to stock up at Textures. The last while has seen shop time interrupted by holiday time.

Sweden was a very cool place to visit.

Berlin was sort of scary but very interesting.

Iceland, why does anyone live there????

Nicest is to be home.

cheers,

cheese boards

I've been away from the blog, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been busy. Just doing things that I enjoy more than playing with the computer.

Above are some new cheese boards made from off cuts of oak and maple.

Boxes Again!!

This is a Band Saw box made from recovered lumber. The body is black water based stain and the drawer fronts are shellac.

Wood Working For Mere Mortals gets some of the credit for my finally getting off my butt and making this. Thanks Steve.

This is also my first attempt at Flocking. It requires a long drying time, really. I will let it have longer drying time next time.

More Boxes, but these have a use !!!

I like it best when there is a purpose for what I've made. I like to make boxes. Making small boxes is helping me develop my hand tool skills and that is a good and quieter thing. These are actually a Band Saw style box, (not a hand tool) but still requiring hand fitting and fussing.

This is a week's pill box, a box with a purpose. Now pills can sit on the kitchen table, where they need to be so they get remembered, but the container is not an ugly plastic thing showing all the world how many pills you actually have to take each day.

The top is held on with rare earth magnets, and the magnets are aligned so that the top will only stay on in one orientation. The two sets of matching magnets hold the lid quite well and the lid can just be slid down the channel formed by the two sides and the pills for a given day can be thrown down the ol' hatch.

Marble Tree and Marvelous Kieran

This is my Sweet Wife, Wonderful Step Daughter and Super Cool Grandson.

Kieran learned to put the balls on the Marble Tree very quickly and was quite taken with the sounds it made.

These toys are for sale at Textures in Hamilton and Elephant Thoughts in Collingwood.