My Pintrest Collage

I saw the Letter holding on Pinterest and then I saw this saying that fits so true to my Dad.  I got my kinda creative part of my brain working and came up with this for my Pops for Father's Day

I then glued it onto my board I painted and sanded the edges and and TA DA...

We also made this Lovely for Coach!!!  We Celebrated Father's Day early since we weren't going to be together on that day.

My Projects....continued

So I have been building a set of dressers, 3 to be in fact.  They are coming along quite nicely, atleast I think so :-)

I choose a black cherry stain ( when I first put it on it looked purple and I was worried ).  When dried it looks great, I completely love it!!

 Then comes varnishing.  I originally tried a clear satin on a dresser, but then I decided to try a little more shiny and went with a semi-gloss.  The semi-gloss won.  I like the shine, it gives it a little pizzazz.  Varnishing takes awhile; coat, let it dry, sand, wipe, coat, let it dry, sand, wipe. You get the picture.  I ended up only doing three coats, I've heard that some go up to like 10 or more...I liked 3.

Finally done with varnishing and now it is putting together the drawers!!

Coach's drawers

For my drawers I went with a metal glide system.  I lose some space, but it is worth it.  Especially since my dressers with the wood and rubber glide sysyem are falling apart and I want these to last!

 I ran out of plywood so this is as far as I have gotten....

Not to shabby, and they are even sturdy!

 My other project I've been working on is this guy.  This is Big T's piggy bank, well it will be soon (hopefully).  I bought this before he turned one and it was going to be a birthday gift, but I never got it painted.  I finally started painting on it.  I'm no great painter, in fact I'm terrible and I've been half tempted to have my mom paint it.  She rocks at painting!
But I decided I want to be gutsy and paint this piggy!  I still might have my mommy do the eyes though.

Drawer Designs

I am no master wood carver at all.  In fact this was really my first time ever!!  So I wish it looked more clean and professional, but I did it and I still think it looks alright.  I really had this whole design thing in my head from the beginning, so I probably should have been practicing, but I apparently don't operate that way.

My Projects

My dresser broke awhile back and I decided that I was going to build me a new one.  Since I'm building one, why not a set? Three dressers it is!!
Coach told me to take pictures through the process..so I'm posting some of the photos I've taken.  I forget to take the camera, mostly because it is so dusty with all the sanding I've been doing.

Gluing the drawer fronts

Pops trimming fronts down exactly

The Frame

the middle dresser face

the drawer front's..before routering the edges

The face of one of two matching dressers

So now I have all the dresser drawer fronts sanded and routed (ready for some extra detailing and staining) I'll post pictures of them soon, I forgot my camera today.  Plus we have the the last dresser face done, and the sides of the smaller dresser cut out and pocket drilled. 

My finished coat-rack....

Yep..its Chrome :-)

What happens when a wagon has a loose screw.