Sunday, April 18, 2010

How about a Little "Wine" with that cheese

This is what I have been working on for the past week or so.  I ordered a few patterns from ScrollerLTD and went to work.  I have been looking for that little something extra to bring to the craft shows this fall and I believe this may be it.  I also scoured the internet to find wine balancing patterns.  It is hard to believe but there are a lot of them out there to be found.  I have found them for wine bottles and for the 2 liter soda bottles.  The first picture is a wine bottle balancer that I found on the web and cut out of maple.  The next picture is a walnut glass holder.  I have had a basic pattern for this but really like the fancier one.  The third picture is a wine glass holder that is cut out of maple. The forth is a pattern that I bought from ScrollerLTD.  The web site is http://www.scrollerltd.com/. I changed the inside to better suite my needs.  My wife really likes this sunshine pattern so I incorporated this into her wine bottle balancer.  The fifth  picture is a simple wine bottle balancer that is cut out of walnut also. The last picture is several balancers that I have cut in the past week or so.
   The area we live at in the northeast is quickly adding more and more local wineries and I am hoping to make a tour through some of them with a box of differnt wine bottle holders and balancers to see how thay are accepted.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Wooden Braclets

Happy Easter everyone.  I have not been in the shop doing to much lately and the worst part is I really don't have a good reason.  I have made a few of these wooden braclets that I found a pattern for.  The ones pictured are made from cherry-upper left, Lower left and upper right-black walnut and the lower right is made from spalted oak.
It is Easter Sunday and we are having My aunt and cousin over for Easter Dinner along with both of our daughters and our son-in-law. I am planning on it being a great day.  The weather has been unusually warm for upstate Ny.  The frist part of April and the temps are in the 80's.  The snow is all gone for now and things are looking up.  
I have a small load of walnut to get busy with and hope to be cutting more and more.  I just ordered a few patterns to help jump-start my "wanna cut" list and get out of the no cutting funk I have been in.  Here it is April and the holiday season is not that far off.
  Well this is a start again.  Hope everyone has a "Hoppy Easter"