Seasonal
Christmas and Halloween or other seasons, there's always something to do.
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Christmas Nativity Layered Project
Today I finished up with the Christmas Nativity 3D Layered projects. I’m not the greatest painter, so I came up with this method for some of my project. Make the design into layers, paint the separate pieces and then put it all together.
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Cleaning vinyl siding
Seems like every 2 yrs I have to clean the siding on the house, especially the north side and any other spot that doesn’t see direct sunlight.
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update on Harman Oakwood wood stove
See the continuing story here:
Our Harman Oakwood fire place goes boom! -
Decor a door with screen door panels
When I was making my sliding garage screen door I wanted to add something different to decorate the door. I have already chosen my plywood and tested some router bits. So now its time to get busy with the experimenting. 🙂
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Hot on deck!
Who in the right (or left) mind would work outdoors on a day like today?
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Reindeer Games Rudolph
From scrollsaw to jigsaw… working with Sheila Landry to produce a large scale yard art patterns from her scroll saw designs.
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Our Harman Fireplace Wood Stove goes BOOM! (updated Mar 13, 2024)
Our fireplace was WETT Certified installed. Everything done right and approved by the insurance company. The unit has its own air intake and a chimney that goes straight up. The problem is [was] that the after gases do not burn off properly as this little video shows. At the time of this blog post we have had the stove for 6 years, its always done this. Some call it whuffing, or wuffing, or huffing. [Edit note Sep 05 2013: To clarify, not every time but its gotten worse the last couple years.]Â
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Santa Sleigh and Reindeer yard art part 2
Below are pictures of us installing the sleigh on site. We used two lengths of lights to act as reigns for the reindeer and to outline the sleigh. I determined the halfway point of the first set and placed the middle light on the reindeer’s nose. Gina thought it would be a good idea to put in a red bulb. Great idea! We changed up the bulbs on the reigns so they were all green, the bulbs outlining the sleigh were assorted colors and bulbs inside the sleigh are a frost white.
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Santa Sleigh and Reindeer yard art
We made this for a family member who lives nearby. I sell the downloadable templates at my online store. Click here to view information about the plan or to purchase. For this project I did the cutting and Gina did the painting. She had A LOT more work to do. It took me about 2 hours to cut and assemble the project. It took Gina over 25 hours of painting.
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Halloween door wreath
This is a simple scroll saw seasonal project made from 1/8″ plywood board, decorated with tole paints. A great gift to hang on your front door to great the little gouls and goblins!