Saturday, February 22, 2014
Anniversary Card for my Husband Discussion Photo
Well, today is not only the first day of the Minnesota State Fair, its also my husbands and mine anniversary today.
As I usually make cards for my family out of wood, I decided to make a unique card for my husband and here it is:
This is based on the Scottish quaich which are small, wooden drinking cups made for special occasions. On the rim is a line from a Robert Browning poem, "Grow old with me for the best is yet to be..."
The cup is made out of a section of a maple tree branch from a friends yard and Im going to oil it later on today.
So, Happy Anniversary Jim and thanks for 32 great years.
Best,
VW
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Whats for Dinner
Well, Ive been wondering just what the hell to make for dinner tonight and as usual my poor sawdust-addled brain comes up with nothing. So I decided to surf the web and I came up with this recipe from another blog that looked really good.
Heres the blog: The is The Pioneer Woman by Ree Drummond. Ree lives in Oklahoma (yay!) on a ranch with her husband and assorted kids and critters: http://thepioneerwoman.com/.
This particular recipe is: Pork roast with apples and onions at: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/11/pork-roast-with-apples-and-onions/
And heres my take on the whole thing so far:
Ive followed the recipe exactly and this is it before I put the lid on it and let it simmer for a couple of hours.
Come on back in about 3 hours and well see where this goes.
Adios,
VW
Monday, February 10, 2014
Dollhouse for Peaches Day 6 and 7
Before I can put the top on, I need to do the front and back panels on the top part of the dollhouse. For the back, I decided to do a repeating flower pattern. I chose to do this peice out of 1/4" oak. Because of the flower layout, this required alot of time in repositioning the blade, etc. There are 8 flowers total. I split the panel in half so I would only have to do 4 flowers. It takes roughly an hour per flower...
Here are the two panels glued and clamped in place...
And finally after the clamps come off...
Next, I need to get the front panel scrolled and in place. For this panel, I wanted to scroll in the family name (Rafey) which is Hungarian. I picked a cool looking font, printed it, and centered on my workpeice. I did not split this peice in half because there is no repeating pattern.
Because the work peice is 4 wide, this is going to require several peice rotations and flips to catch all the lettering. I have already had to insert the blade backwards in the saw in order to cut out some of the letterings corners. This is the time consuming part.
I am finally getting to a point in my schedule where I can make some more headway on this project. After I get this scrolled out, I will be mounting it in place, and then securing the top!Thursday, January 16, 2014
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