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skirt
Couldn’t find the right skirt for my Halloween costume, so decided to make one. Two hours, one bird’s nest, and one broken needle later… boom! Skirt.
bookshelf
Looking back at my last posts, it occurred to me that this bookshelf was actually my first big carpentry project. I designed it and helped with the building. :)
bed
Had to get a new mattress and decided to go with a natural latex version from Sleep E-Z. Latex requires a slat platform base, so I could either buy a new bed frame or make my own. Decided to make my own!
My grandpa let me use his workshop back in my hometown which was so great. I loved working in his shop. My design was based on a super simple platform bed plan, but I updated it with more advanced extra options and the ability to easily remove the slats and take the frame apart. This was my first big carpentry project done almost entirely on my own and I learned so much! It was totally worth DIY’ing.
Had to get the thing back home for the mattress before finishing the headboard, though, so that’s TBD. I know I want it to slant backward a bit, though.
rainbow trellises mock-up
Went to Procreate to mock up a garden trellis idea. A few hours later, I came out with this illustration. Maybe the real deal would look as fun. 😀
If I make them, planning to use found wood for the cross-bars, 1x1 for the uprights, and milk paint samples from The Real Milk Paint + tung oil for coating. They’d be in a single row, so the bars of each would criss-cross when seen head-on which might look neat.
lampwork glass beads
Artist Emelie Hebert introduced me to glass bead making recently. I’ve made a couple of batches now and have come to really love it! There’s something fascinating about messing around with red-hot molten glass right in front of your face then eventually ending up with a fun little useable gumdrop-like bead 12 hours later. :)