More Photos from the Workshop (3)

 Closed for the Winter, But Spring is Coming

So I've Been Told

This is one of those custom projects that took a long time. But worth it! : )

Introduction:

My workshop is a big messy place again. But not from bird house building or other wood working projects.

It's a mess because I'm tearing down The Annex - an extra shed for storing lumber and tools and bikes and gardening equipment (like two lawn mowers and more shovels than I really need). Most readers will likely know what I'm talking about when I say that tearing something down that houses a lot of odds and ends... they have to end up somewhere.

That being said, photos of birdhouses abound in various folders inside my computer and here are a few colourful snaps that might initiate a few thoughts about spring.

More photos will follow because I have more photos than shovels. And they've got to go somewhere too.

Please link to More Photos From the Shop (2).

Photos GH 

The Workshop in Review, 2016 (3).

A Rescued Chair and Several "Favourites"

 I fell in love with a "tossed away treasure" (Photo - March 27)

This lovely chair now resides at Cranberry Cottage, PEI

While out for a walk in late March, 2016, I spotted four chairs sitting on an Orchard Street boulevard. Unwanted, I suppose.

I sat down upon the well-armed captain's chair and found it was just my size. And it came home with me, balanced upon my head. I painted it, along with my father's four-legged stool (to match), and carried it by car - 2,000 miles east - to its current home in PEI.

Spring time I spent busily and happily inside my workshop, building up inventory for Gathering on the Green in June and other future sales. I made several models "by the batch" and soon had basement shelves full.

 These small ones dot the surrounding area. Only one remains.

 My "bread and butter", small red cedar houses

 Occasionally I turn leftover lumber into log cabins

 Hefty duplexes are manufactured when the mood strikes

White cedar condo is trimmed with old western cedar

More to follow.

Please link to The Workshop in Review, 2016 (2).

Photos GH

Duplexes: "Voila! Fini, Right on Time" 4

Last One Packed Into the Car

"Be careful. The wee birdhouse is still wet"

I set up a tableful of birdhouses at a local school on Friday evening - in hopes of selling a few at a Mothers Day Sale the next day - and the last one readied for display was the above bright red duplex made from new and (mostly) rescued lumber. The paint on the little red birdhouse sitting on the front fence was still wet.

"Don't throw away your wooden spoons!"

Yesterday afternoon, after a relaxing walk-a-jog in Greenway Park (Oh yeah, I was jogging a bit!), I finished the last details on two more duplexes. Pretty solid structures, I must say.

"I like to use wooden spoons, forks and sporks for sperches" : )

The trio is made from rescued lumber for the most part. The only new lumber is the pine barnboard base. And that salad fork was only used once or twice before becoming a useful perch.

Cheers.

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Photos by GH in The Workshop