In late August, with the help of the tools found at Sector67, I made another bench!
This one is not delivered up north just yet.
June project
In June, I worked on making a bench.
I chose the simplest bench pattern out there for some instant gratification; this style is called the Aldo Leopold bench. The parts were acquired from Home Depot’s 70% off rack + my random stash. I used Sector67’s woodworking shop to cut my lumber down to spec.
Total time spent building the thing: 30 minutes.
Total time spent sealing the thing: way more than 30 minutes.
Time spent walking it down a 1/2 mile long, bumpy, overgrown road: I don’t want to talk about it.
It will be interesting to see how well this holds up outdoors.
May Project
In May, I worked on my styrofoam sculpting technique — just in time to participate in the Fools Flotilla:
April Project
In April, I decided it was *TIME*. Time to finish a project that was a long time in the making. I posted this post back in May of 2015. Here’s how it ended up:
Art Every Day – Day 49 – EDIBLE art!
Years ago my parents gave me a plastic bottle intended for making pancakes easy. I never actually tried it until *today* — and in among spirals and an accidental turtle pancake came this little robot dude!
I couldn’t decide which of these two photos to post, so you get TWO photos of the robot pancake – one with and one without the most awesome WI-shaped cast iron pan.
Thanks to Jesse for encouraging some pancake drawing beyond just spirals!
Two Mandalas
Last year I briefly played around with mandalas.
First on rocks:
Later in glass:
There might be one more made of a third kind of material coming out in 2016.
Patio in progress
I am assembling a small cement patio for under the wisteria trellis.
So far, it’s made of 1 cement stepping stone I made as an example for a class I taught, and the bricks are found bricks (some people throw away perfectly good bricks!). I might have to break down and buy some bricks to finish this… My pile-o-scraps is not really working to fill this out into a nice rectangle right now
A request for any of my friends who bike or walk places – REFLECTORS!
I see these all the time on the ground when walking/biking around town and pick them up when I can. If *YOU* see these on the ground, would you be willing to pick them up and save them for me? I have a project in mind and could use a couple dozen more of these. Thank you!
Fancy soap
After failing to make cupcakes/muffins with these molds (seriously, it was a disaster), I relegated the silicon molds for SOAP. I think they turned out beautifully. I’m not sure where I fall on the love/hate homemade soap spectrum, but I’m glad I tried it at least once.
