Projects

[norsegirl]

What have I been up to this week? Quite a bit actually. Especially when you consider that today was a complete write-off. For some reason I'm feeling nauseous. Especially right after I eat. I'm not sure if I'm coming down with something or if the baby is just kicking in weird places. She's fine, the first thing my mum asked was if she was still moving. Yes, plenty, and I'm sure that's not helping me at all. So I spent most of today in bed and all I got done was unloading the dishwasher and cleaning up all my sawdust and debris from the woodworking out in the garage.

Sunday however was fairly productive. I cut all the pieces for the first box and started the assembly. Monday I completed the last little bit of the assembly (I only had enough clamps to do 2 corners at a time, and even then I didn't have enough to do it well, so on Monday I bought more clamps). Yesterday I did the reinforcing dowels and sanded the whole thing. As of now all that needs to be done is some sort of finish. I've told Jason that this is his box, so I'm waiting on him to decide what he wants to do with it. His choices are stain, leave it as-is or I can paint something on it for him (his arms or whatever he likes) and then whatever he chooses I'll throw some urethane on it to protect it. So far he hasn't made any kind of decision at all and it might take him some time to come to one, so I'm just going to post what it looks like at this stage.



Nice looking box if I do say so myself.

There's another little project I finished a few weeks back that I'd been working on since around when my parents came to visit, so I figure I'll post some shots of that too. This isn't so much a construction project as a re-purposing. A friend of mine was using this as a medicine cabinet or something (at least that is what I assume based on the stains from the purple hair dye and the q-tips that were still in it when I got it) and she was getting rid of it when she moved. I figured I'd find a use for it, though I didn't have an idea at the point that I took it. Shortly after moving in I realized that Jason needed a place near the garage door to put his keys and wallet since we no longer had the shelf that we had in Edmonton. I could have put the shelf back up since we still physically possess the shelf, but it doesn't match the style of the room and it was messy having everything just tossed there. So I sanded down s4rah's old medicine cabinet, painted it to match the walls and installed some cup hooks for the keys and here we have the perfect key/wallet/passcard solution:



I'm really pleased with how it turned out. And also I like that it reminds me of Sarah when I look at it. I miss her.

Comments

[real-jayde.livejournal.com]

noboy says it's a fine looking box (and I agree!) but he was wondering if you were planning on putting handles on it?

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

I hadn't decided on handles yet. It is small enough that it probably doesn't need them. There's a little clearance on the bottom where you can easily get your fingers under it, and it's not a terribly large box so I can't imagine it getting too heavy to lift unless you filled it with lead or coins. No handles would mean easier packing and stacking. Handles are pretty, but they also can catch clothing. I could go with rope handles, but I'm not sure those are the most practical. The other option that wouldn't add bulk is to cut handle slots into the side, but then you have the problem of things being able to fall out.

At this point I'm thinking no handles, but that could certainly be revisited down the road.