Here is what Luke is up to

I have started woodworking a bit. What I mean by woodworking is more furniture and less birdhouses and rough carpentry. My first project is a mission or craftsman style sofa table. The table is about 50"x17"x28" tall. I used red oak and all the joints are mortise and tenon joints. I am using General Finishes brand Prairie Wheat gel stain and General Finishes brand Armor Seal for the top coat. In total it will have one coat of stain and 5 coats of top coat. It is turning out pretty good for my first project. Heidi likes it and it will look nice in the entry way. I started it before I made this blog, so this is the only photo I have for now. The photo you see here is minus the top and bottom shelf. I have the two long pieces finished just to see how they look before I finish the rest of it. I have the whole thing just about finished now. I am pre-finishing before I glue it up because of all the nooks and crannies in this piece. By the way the little stack of pieces in the back corner are just sample pieces that I did to test some finishes. I will post more photos of it half finished and some photos of the finished project.

Welcome

Here is a little blog we created to share our hobbies with our friends and family. Here will try to keep you up to date on what is new and some photos of our latest creations. Heidi is busy knitting these days. She also does very elaborate counted cross stitches. Luke has been trying his hand at fine woodworking. Of course there is still the photography. Luke also has picked up the guitar again. He will spare you all from listening to that for now though. Alex loves to draw and is always bringing home fun stuff from art class at school. Alex also likes to help his mom do various projects in plastic canvas. Last but not least we all like to garden in the summer. Heidi recently inherited hundreds of gladiola bulbs from her grandmother who is scaling back a bit. We have a couple of landscaping projects this year and of course the vegetable garden.

So check back often to see what we are up to and drop us a line to say hi.

Luke, Heidi, and Alex