Rainbow Carrots

A few days ago I ended up with a bag of organic rainbow carrots as part of an organic produce basket one of our kids picked up for us. The carrots looked like regular carrots in the bag but once out of the bag I could see there was a variation in the orange and yellow. A couple of the carrots were quite yellow in comparison to the others so I did an online search to see exactly what rainbow

Jelly Cupboard Build Day 4

Well today is day four of the Jelly Cupboard build.  I got a late start tonight so I didn’t get as much accomplished as I had hoped but on the positive side the rough carcass is together

There are a TON of clamps on there,  two for every shelf.  I am very happy with it.  I have to do some tuning to the mortises.  Some of the mortises were not as tight as I would have liked so I added a few shims to each of the shelves it really tightened things up on the mortises.  They are much tighter than they originally were.  I will take a utility knife and cut away the extra shim after the glue has dried.  I also took the time tonight to use my new mouse cam.  I figured I would have the little guy take a shot of the decorative arch.  I used a jigsaw to cut the two arches out.  I’m not the greatest at free hand cutting with the so there is a little clean up that needs to be done.  Honestly one of the most amazing things that happened is when I checked level on all the shelves.  This is what I found. 

I can honestly say I am shocked.  I didn’t really think that the shelves would be that level.  This is probably the biggest projected I have taken on so far in my short time woodworking.  I think I am starting to get the hang of all this stuff, but I have a LONG way to go and so much to learn.  I hope you will stick around and learn with me. 

Have a Great Day!

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Splitting Hares

I would like to introduce you to two friends of mine.  Pierre and Isabelle Lapin (French for Rabbit).

Pierre

Isabelle

(oops, I see Isabelle has a little candle wax on her nose)

They are a pair of heavy metal candle holders that we purchased while on vacation in the California wine country 5 years ago.  Sometimes I display them next to each other.  Sometimes apart.

Currently they are on the second shelf of the bakers rack (click on the pictures to enlarge) in my dining room....waiting for some candles and waiting to sit on the dinner table casting romantic light.

Welcome Home,

Penny

Wordless Wednesday: My Family

Our family photo, this was taken last year right after my Nanny's Funeral (why all the black).  While this was a very sad time I do believe this is one of the best family photos we have. Figure the other is missing our youngest and BabyGirl is only 6 months in it. Happy WW!  (Now you've seen all of us)IMG: J.C.
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Yo Gabba Gabba Coloring Sheet

Click the picture you should be able to make it larger so you can cut and print. Not sure as I've never done this. Don't forget to enter the YO GABBA GABBA LIVE Giveaway if you live near St. Louis.

Jelly Cupboard Build Day 3

I spent a few hours in the shop tonight and got some things accomplished.  I was able to get all the all the dados routed out for sides.  These are my first ever dados.  I did okay.  They are a little loose in some spots and a little tighter in others.

I clamped the two sides together and marked the dados and then routed.  One thing I stared doing to improve the dados after the first one was to cut on the inside of the of the lines and make micro adjustments.  I kept a scrap piece of the shelf to test fit in the dados to make sure I had not over done it.   I also had to rabbet the back of each side so that it will accept the boards for the back that will be attached.   Here are a few pictures of that the back looks like.  I spent a little time dry fitting the frame together and was pretty happy. 

 

 

 

 

I stuck a level on it just to check it and see if it even came close.  I am pretty happy with it of course it doesn’t really make a hill of beans at this point since it is just being dry fitted but there is potential there.  Hopefully in the next day or so I can get things glued up and assembled.  I cut the face frame pieces to short so I had to re-cut them.  Glad I tested that out before I glued or nailed anything together.  Shouldn’t be to much longer. 

I also wanted to let everyone know about another project that I am going add to the list before a few others.  I am hopefully going to be working with a local primitive store to build some shelves benches, etc.  Here is a picture of one of the designs that I am going to build for them.

I would love to know what you all think.  It’s a single bowl shelf.

 

 

Have a Great Day!

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Yo Gabba Gabba Giveaway: St.Louis

                             YO GABBA GABBA! LIVE!: THERE’S A PARTY IN MY CITY! (scroll all the way down this post for the giveaway)

Yo Gabba Gabba is going to be performing LIVE at St.Louis on March 21st. Yo Gabba Gabba is entering their THIRD season and will have special guests this season such as: Sarah Silverman, Weird Al Yankovic, Black Kids, Jack McBrayer, Paul Scheer, Weezer, Anthony