A Day in the Life of The Workshop.

Maybe it was a Month. A Busy Month!

Barnboard looks good, especially on a sunny day!

I think I focussed on building various models of birdhouses for about ten years. And over those ten years I purchased a lot of woodworking tools and raised a lot of dust and had a very good time. Oh, and I painted a lot of trim and roofs and front porches and fences... ad infinitum!!

In order to catch the eye of prospective buyers - and neighbourhood birds - I added various details that were, at the very least, colourful.

Photos from along the way:

Always lots of trim!

 Little Free Library, not so little, not so free : ) ready to pack 

into my Honda Civic

One of my cedar bird feeders in a former student's backyardigan.

 A slate roofing shingle bears decades of dust - in an intriguing design!

 It looks to me like an island landscape from Northern Ontario

 I framed the slate shingle and called it "The North Country"

 This photo may show the cedar bird feeder featured a few photos above

 This is my largest, most-complicated birdhouse. It is parked on the north

side of Labatt Park, home of London Majors baseball team.

 It was stolen from its first location, damaged, but recovered and repaired!

 Note the baseball-themed bench below the baseball-themed birdhouse

I did take breaks from the dust. I would sometimes fire up my motorcycle and head toward Lake Erie.

 I would take short walks on long piers

And even in Port Burwell I would focus on small details

Please link to A Little Library from 2015.

Photos GH

DIYs (1).

White Pine and Cedar.

[Photo: White pine DIYs: Pat's very good idea]

A few years ago my lovely wife suggested I make do-it-yourself kits for Father's Day. I heard what she said - it sounded like a great idea - but I had my hands full at the time, so I didn't act on the idea.

This year, though no photos from the workshop related to DIYs have appeared (again, my hands were full), I have added birdhouse kits to my list of things to do and have produced and bagged dozens so far, from white pine and red cedar. And more are needed, so I will show a few pics on this space now.

From along the way:

 A table full of white pine houses, similar to DIYs, early days.

 Once painted, the DIY could look like the above (all trim not included).

 The red cedar DIY model looks similar to this type of house.

 Preparing instruction sheets was a difficult task!

Anyway.... you get the idea : )

More to follow, including info about the best type of plastic bag to use!

: )

Please link to White Pine is for Painting 7

Photos GH