April 15, 2018

Life's entries


      For a surprise Christmas gift this year, Shawn got the idea to make me a journal. Ever since I graduated high school, I've been pretty diligent at keeping one. I don't write everyday, but I've filled 6 so far, and it's pretty neat to be able to look back over all the changes and adventures of these past years. 
       Shawn kept it a secret until Christmas, but he didn't have it finished yet, so I got to see the last stages of him putting it together. He made it with walnut, which is one of my favorite kinds of wood, and it has some pretty amazing grain pattern and curl in it.






       While we're on the subject of beautiful walnut wood, here's another little project Shawn did for our apartment- a napkin holder. 


April 8, 2018

The tool box

        So for the past Christmas instead of buying presents we had the idea to build projects for the families.  I came up with this one project, it is a tool box to store r/c truck parts.
       Here is a picture before its finished and before it has any finish on it.  I built it out of cherry and walnut, the color really popped and pulled the grain pattern out when I put some finish on it.  It was a pleasure and a great learning experience building this.  I look at it as long as I'm striving to be learning, and doing everything to my best, then it's a good project.






Our Purpose

      Our reason for starting this blog is to keep family and friends updated with our crazy project life. From early on in our marriage we have been very busy with different projects for our home. I feel like we are both very tired of this throw away world we live in. We desire to build handcrafted pieces that will out last our lifetime. I think it would be very neat to create a whole house of furniture that could be passed down for generations to come.
        This night stand is our first project was a surprise for my wife. We had a bedroom set but there was a bump in the wall that created a problem for her night stand. So this is an easy fix just build a new nightstand for this time of our life.


April 2, 2018

The little things...


Sometimes you just need to take a break from pulling staples and tell your amazing husband that you love him. :)

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