You know the feeling on Sundays where you have NO IDEA what you did on Saturday? I am having one of those moments. I know I was home all weekend and yet, I look around and nothing is done. The house is slightly cleaner, but my projects sit there mocking me in their half finished state. I am at a standstill with the castle right now. Partially because I need to borrow a tool from my friend to finish it, and partially because I had to do some contracted work on the side.
I did manage to do one small thing in the playhouse this weekend. My poor husband worries a lot about splinters. The straight wood that was the tower's second story floor worried him. So I decided to cover it with flooring. I use opportunities like this to try out new things. I have always wanted to try peel and stick tiles. It seems to nice for small places that do not need fancy floors or real tile. This seemed the perfect time to give it a whorl and see what it was like. $14 dollars and an hour and a half later, I had this....
Not too bad for a first time with this stuff. Now its really comfortable in there and really easy to clean. :-)
My daughter starts in her new preschool in September. It is the one her brother went to when he was in preschool and where he went this summer for summer camp/daycare. The owner asked me if I would make 2 kid's tables and 10 chairs for the preschool. I said sure. I have some great plans from Anna White's website I could pull out and do. I was already making a couple kid's chairs for the playhouse when she asked so why not make 10 more?
I mashed up a couple of the plans Anna has for chairs, and came up with this style of chair with 2x2 legs for stability and strength. They DO have to hold up to 6 year old kids leaning back in them (even though leaning back is not allowed). This is actually my son's for the playhouse. I am using my router to cut his name into the back of the chair's support piece. That is why it looks like a piece of the back is missing. I misplaced my router's bushing so I couldn't finish putting it together. All the screws are hidden because I used my Kreg Jig for pocket screws. I sat in the chair and leaned back a little and nothing broke so that is a good sign it will be able to handle a 6 year old....hopefully. hee hee.
I took nearly all day today designing this chair. It is a fast build, but I was sort of making up the design as I went along so there was some delay as I worked through each step. Then tonight after the kids went to bed I went back out there and cut all the legs for the 10 chairs. Ended up with extra wood so I cut more legs. I will be able to make 12 chairs total with the 10 pieces of wood I bought. I HAD hoped to have all the chairs built this weekend, but changing up the plans at the last second really slowed me down.
Let's hope this week I can borrow the saw from our friend. I REALLY want to be done with the windows soon!
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