Guys. I need to get more organized. Plan ahead. Have some posts at the ready to be published in times of emergency. So that when I have to go to the ER in the middle of the night, I can just hit “publish” later in the day and not be MIA for so long. (Don’t worry, I’m ok, just an allergic reaction. Everything’s fine now).
What I’m saying is, I was thinking about you, readers. While hooked up to an IV and shivering in a cold patient room at 4 in the morning, I was thinking about you. Be flattered.
Back to blog stuff. Things have been a bit manic around here. Since I have no insulated indoor space to work on fumey projects, I’ve been scrambling to finish my bigger pieces before the cold weather sets in. Paint and polycrylic don’t cooperate in a freezing basement.
Which means, this past weekend was woodworking weekend! Woot!
Don’t I look classy in my work clothes and neon socks?
Two of my friends just bought a fantastic house in MA and invited me to come use their tools for these tree slice tables I’ve been working on. I may have invited myself, the details are a little hazy. Thank you, lovelies, for letting me invade your home!
Yes, these are the same tree slices I got all the way back in April. It took ALL. SUMMER. for them to dry. It was hair-pullingly slow. But they’re finally ready and now I’m prepping them to be table-ified.
I wanted to take more pictures, but the sawdust was seriously intense. No phone/camera needs to be subjected to that mess.
What did you all do this past weekend? I know, it’s already Wednesday, but I would feel quite rude not asking.
This week will be a little scant post-wise, but I’ll be back with more good stuff next week!
**Update!
You know when you have a really big ambitious project that’s taking a really long time and all this other stuff gets in the way and eventually a whole year has passed and you’ve just lost the thrill of working on it? Yeah, that happened. Turns out the much-awaited (by me) Tree Slice Tables just aren’t going to work in our home. By which I mean, I’m too lazy to keep planing and planing and planing to try to get my slices level. Time to admit defeat and move on!
Oh no! I’m glad you’re feeling better! I’m excited to see what you’ll be doing with these- the neighbors have a big pile of these outside of their house right now and I keep thinking about snagging one or two, but have no project ideas!
-Becca
Ladyface Blog
Thank you Becca! I’ll be turning these tree slices into coffee tables! I’m very excited. Hopefully I can get it all done while the weather is still good. If you can and you have a non-humid/damp place to store them, you should pick up some slices or stumps! Project ideas can come later. 🙂
Those are some handsome slabs of wood you got there! Can’t wait to see when you’re all done!
XOXO
Me neither!! 😀 xoxo