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Sunday, March 2, 2014

Weekend Project and Yes More Bread Boards

Happy Monday everyone! I worked on a fun little project this weekend. Last weekend when we scored the gorgeous sideboard for our dining room, we also picked up this cute table.

I am a sucker for tables and can hardly ever turn my back on them. It needed a few minor repairs and a fresh coat of paint, as well as, a fresh coat of polyurethane on the top. Heres how it looks now.

I love it! Dont worry, it isnt staying in the dining room. It will be the perfect sewing table for making my burlap bread board bags. Currently, I sew on the floor. Not much fun but my sewing machine was my grandmothers and doesnt have a very long cord so I cant use the dining room table. Im moving it into a little corner in our bedroom where I work on projects. Stay tuned for that project reveal soon!

I also worked on a table my dad built for me that I hadnt had a chance to work on yet. It is going in my dining room. Its one of my favorite pieces that he built for me because he had his name engraved underneath it. Stay tuned for that one, too.

And last but not least....Ive got more sets of bread boards listed in my Etsy shop!

Have a great day friends! :)

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Shop Upgrade Weekend

I worked my butt off on the shop this weekend. I ask you please excuse the brevity of this post.

The mostly empty shop.

Because of all the work - and a few purchases - it feels as though the shop progressed more this past weekend than in the two preceding years.

Electric

With a few hours work on Tuesday and Wednesday I finished the 110V wiring in the shop.

So many wonderful outlets.

Floor

Since my family was away this past weekend, I took the opportunity to empty the shop and install a floor. I’ll go into more detail in a post dedicated to the shop floor. For now I’ll simply say that it’s nice to have wood under my feet.

I just need to make a threshold and the floor is done.

This was a purchase, rather than an improvement I made (such as the electric & floor). I bought myself a simple window air conditioner after I finished the electric. I installed it last night. This should let me use the shop during the coming heat wave.

Jointer

This purchase was simply an oportunity I couldn’t turn down. The massive old 8” jointer was posted to Craig’s list friday. When I emailed on Saturday it was still availble. Sunday morning I check it out, saw the wonderful care that had been given to all of the tools in its shop and took it home. I have a bit more to do on the shop before I monkey with it, but I can’t wait to set it up and get it running (it was running, I just had to take it apart to move). Hopefully I can get some Infinity Carbide Tipped Jointer Knives to fit it.

Aint she pretty?

That’s all I accomplished this weekend. Hopefully I’ll have another productive one soon. Have you managed to have a productive weekend recently?