drawing board (16 July 08)
one resolution, as posted in my interview over at lumberjocks, is to actually complete projects when I start them, rather than just taking them to 80 or 90%…. hence the additions to the list … perhaps getting it down will give me the motivation (now to carve out the time…)
Current Projects (poised and ready, or in progress):
- 21 Boxes “class”- 3/21 done
- “feet” for friends salvaged movie theatre seat Brainstorming – the legs are really close together
- puzzle box no. 2
- “good” tool storage box/chest
House Projects started, or pending
- closet in daughters room. – re-paint door, paint int trim 2 clothes rods installed hang door (where are those hinges! – found the pins, still missing 1/2 of the hinges!!!)
- beadboard, trim downstairs hallway
- replace porch floorboards
- storage shelves in bathroom
- false door fronts – for pull out recycling center, (built last summer)
- kitchen cabinets/shelves next to stove
- cabinet doors, trim – for small kitchen counter (built back in Spring 2003)
- trim(interior) front door
- new MBR windows – install and paint trim, windows installed
On the back burner (started, or progress made but otherwise on hold):
- Lilac Table lamp – lilac from the side yard. In Progress (building steam box – box done, need to rig up the mechanicals, and arrange filming for a video post.
- outdoor ash bench – from tree taken down in 2005 Started (downgraged from In Progress)
(the likely to get made someday list – when nothing else inspires):
- Adirondack style love seat with table
- Arts and Crafts Chair
- birdhouse for garden
- headboard for my daughters bed
- kitchen whisk/tongs
- lamp no. 2 (found maple log to use)
- marking knife
- Natural edged kitchen cart/island/bar (got the top 7/3/06)
- Natural edged shelf/shaker peg coat rack for kitchen
- pens, pens, pens
- planes
- Stools for Pub table (table completed winter 2006)
- Storage Ottoman for living room
- (something) timberframed
- trivet “frame” for tile Mom made for us
- turned wine glasses
- turned wine glasses tribute to Picasso
- various “treasure chests”
- vinyard table (folding round game/wine table)
- wine box
- wooden whisk – from top of Christmas tree
- debate lowering pub table to a shorter height. (wait until next house)
Completed, and posted!
- Shelving unit for plastic project envelopes at work Summer ‘06
- screwdriver (first of many) Dec ‘06
- Dads desk organizer Feb ‘07
- 21 box project #1 little cherry box Mar ‘07
- wooden kitchen tongs Mar ‘07
- 21 box project #2 poplar box Mar ‘07
- Spinning Squirrel Feeder Mar ‘07
- Screwdrivers - second generation, April 07
- Pens – first batch, Rosewood, April 07
- 21 box project #3 recipe box April ‘07
- Greene and Greene Table, for Lumberjocks/Popular Woodworking Contest May 07
- in-laws porch – finish interior (trim, etc..) July ‘07 except for the blogging
- Pens – second batch – Pirate Oak! July ‘07
- Arbor/Trellis for garden July ‘07 LJ Contest Entry
- replace clapboard siding – remove old windows, replace cellar door Done 10/17/07 except for the blogging
- bookshelf (built-in) for daughters bedroom 2/15/08
- Better shop storage 2/08
- wine bottle stoppers First two 3/1/08
- more stoppers April 08
- Storage shelves in Laundry room March 08
- Table Saw sled March 08
- Grinding Jig March 08
- Pen blank drilling jig March 08
- pens, pens, pens (LJ swaps) March 08
- Bamboo pen March o8
- Mechanical Pencil March o8
- Tore out/replaced Cellar Stairs – Done April 08 except for the blogging
- rustic, turned mallet for shop complete as-is, thanks to this one Rob gave me for Christmas
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Nice blog! Your list is awful short, isn’t it? I’ve got two years of wooodworking magazines(3 subscriptions) and several spiral binders of plans off of the internet that I hope to build one day. The only problem is that I don’t think that God is going to give me another four hundred years in which it will take to do it. If you’d like my blog is at: http://oscorner.wordpress.com/. It’s not as nice as yours and Frank’s, but your sites are a goal I’m shooting for for mine.
Thanks Mark!
Well, sure the list may seem short, that’s because I’m leaving off all the things I’ve already started before I made this list, (that still aren’t quite done – I blame parenthood, and blogging
, That plus all all the marked pages in all the magazines… I fear If I add to many things they’ll just overwhelm. That, or shifting priorities of the items on the list is keeping me from them.
Perhaps I should add any other “delayed projects in progress” to motivate me to wrap those up? and see if I can’t keep the list to a manageble number. Not by want of fewer things to do, but by actually accomplishing them!
Good luck with your blog – keep at it and it’ll surely evolve into what you’d like it to be (I’ve had a few under my belt prior to this one, which has certainly helped.)
Scott: You oughta move that turned mallet right up onto the Current Projects. It’s a fun time and should only take an afternoon. I went to a friends house to teach them what little I know about turning, and they did this turned mallet just after lunch (I arrived at 10, left at 4, and we took the morning to practice beads and coves with 1 1/2 hour lunch). Fun times.
Holy smokes! How many items have you got crossed off your list now? Love your site and the pictures are fantastic.
Thanks for sharing…Di
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