I wont play the broken records of my busy weekends not getting anything accomplished. I think everyone is tired of that. So instead I will just state that I made some lovely progress. I got almost all the name signs done. I had a couple with more complicated painting and I am still finishing those up (I just didn't have the time). So they are sitting there and just need some shellac, time and packaging materials.
I also finally got some progress made on the last 10 toddler chairs for the preschool. I spend a good number of hours (until 11pm on Friday night) cutting wood for them. I usually have my cutoff at 10pm for my neighbors sake, but I am hoping they will understand with the holiday's coming that I may be working late on projects. I tried to make it easier for me later by routing with a round-over bit the edges of the legs to they are less pointy. This is when I learned that the output of my palm router was directed onto my space heater I use to not freeze out there. A little sawdust here or there and nothing happens, but after the amount I was doing it was too much hitting the heater at once. This meant a pile of sawdust burst into flames. I looked over and realized where my sawdust was going a couple seconds before it started on fire. Luckily I knew what I was up against and tilted the heater to get the sawdust on fire onto the ground and out of the heater. This works well as long as you are careful to stomp it out without spreading it to the sawdust all over the ground. I got lucky this time and it all stomped out fairly quickly and didn't ignite the sawdust on the ground. I am not super careful about my heater. I wouldn't use it, but it can get REALLY REALLY REALLY cold in there.
As it is, I wear jeans, a cami under my regular shirt, under my sweater, under my ski jacket, and I have gloves and a scarf on. The scarf is only there so I can tuck it over the top of my zipper on my jacket. It gets super cold against my lips and the scarf keeps that from happening. Anyway, I am dressed like I am ready to go to Alaska and help Anna build her house. Even with all those clothes and layers, it can be chilly out there and the space heater helps my legs since jeans are not quite warm enough. I can't help but dream about a heated workshop where I can just wear some overalls and a regular long sleeve shirt and be warm and comfortable. Sigh. Some day, right?
Friday night was for cutting all the wood out. (Yes, those are storage bins for my screws. I bought a LOT of KREG screws in bulk and this keeps them organized and easy to access)
Then Saturday night I had enough caffeine to last me until midnight and went out there again. This time I only managed to work until 11pm before getting too tired and cold. I started to assemble the chairs. I didn't get all the fronts and backs done, but I am a lot farther than I was. Hopefully this week, I can finish getting the signs out the door and the chairs completely built!
Well, time to finish up some other work and go to bed. Have a great week and Happy Building Everyone!
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