cedar, Custom project, Paint, Woodworking

Ooh, I’m painting my life away…

On the off chance that craft shows will begin again in 2021, we have decided to do a little preparation for them now. Leave it to us to start a business where we plan to travel to craft shows the year a pandemic cancelled uh, well, everything.

In the end it might work out okay because we’ll be able to make Christmas things during the winter, summer goods in the summer and Halloween/Thanksgiving items as the weather begins to cool in the fall and be ahead of the game for 2021. For some reason the thought of diving into a crochet pattern for a toasty hat and scarf set when it’s 80 degrees outside isn’t particularly appealing to me. Weird.

In between some trials and prep for next year, the Old Man made a cedar wood spinner. I liked it. And we sold a few. But then while sitting on the porch watching our trial run one spin in the breeze I began to wonder what it would look like painted.

So I painted it.

And I was quite pleased with it.

As were others.

The grass green really pops!
Cranberry paint.
Red, white and blue. I’m glad I put the white on the edges. It wouldn’t have popped as a letter color like the red and blue did.
Navy blue looks great on the cedar even in the gloom of a rainy day.

I have a few other ideas I’m itching to try on these spinners as soon as I get a chance. Hopefully they’ll be a success and I’ll have a follow up post to this in the near future.

And as always, I’m sure my best friend will be doing everything he can to help me.

Guess which of us is doing the work… Zzz.
cedar, Custom project, Woodworking

We are going on vacation…a working vacation

The Old Man has been working really hard on several custom cedar orders. Some have been for planters of various sizes similar to the ones he for made for me for Mother’s Day, but he also branched out into flower boxes and curved corbels to mount them.  In fact, this gorgeous order is getting delivered tomorrow.

I can’t wait to see how these end up looking once they are stained and installed by the homeowner.