Christmas Project: Teacher Caddy

Here is another gift project for this year's Christmas. One of my sisters is a first-grade teacher. I drew her name for Christmas and she mentioned wanting a teacher's caddy (and then conveniently forgot about it, making it quite the surprise when she opened her gift!). She loved it!

Ready to paint

There's a compartment for paper or a binder underneath the caddy

The final coat

All of the drying pieces, ready to be assembled.

The final product, complete with removable little compartment dividers

Nate's sister, also a teacher, said she hopes we get her name next year. :)

tm

Christmas Project: Cradle Rockers

The gift for nieces C & K was a fun one - a cradle/rocker. It turned out great!

 

Add a blanket and pillow....

...and a niece and a baby doll!

tm

Christmas Project: Ornaments

We made several Christmas gifts this year. One of the fun and simple ones we made was very cheap because we had all of the supplies on hand, save the ribbon - oak log from camp, wood burner, lacquer, and saw.

Wood burning the design

Letting the ornaments dry after spraying the lacquer

Tie a red ribbon and it's ready for the tree!

Merry Christmas!

tm

My creative husband

I've been wanting to brag on my imaginative husband and the creativity God has given him. He has been taking full advantage of our garage since we've been in our home and it has become a weekend workshop in all seasons. He enjoys working with wood and loves designing useful projects for our home. This is a project he made in August in about five days.

The creation of a coffee table. Final product in lower left.

For those who care about such details, the coffee table was made out of red oak and measures 29 inches wide from each point to rounded side and is 18 inches tall. The little reddish triangles, stained in Red Oak, come out of the top and the bottom shelf to become six coasters (four on top, two stacked in the bottom). The main body of the table is stained in Ebony, followed by three coats of Gloss varnish.

I love the design and functionality of this table...and I'm pretty sure the Ebony stain is my new favorite stain. More projects to come!
tmm