If this isnt motivation to clean up the garage I dont know what is!

Warning, this post does not contain anything creative or inspiring, but hopefully it is somewhat entertaining and feel free to laugh with me :)

If you follow me on instagram @sarahmdorseydesigns you might of seen this last week. Yes, that is paint splattered in the garage on the dresser, wall and ceiling. It was actually everywhere, but I couldnt fit everything in the picture.

 The culprit.

How did it get there? As I was pulling into the garage I ran over a paint can and it exploded. EVERYWHERE. If this doesnt make you want to run out to your garage and clean up everything, I dont know what will! Why couldnt of been white?

Anyways, I spent the next few hours cleaning off the dresser. I didnt make it to the wall in time, so I decided to let it fully dry and then sand it down prior to painting.

This weekend David and I picked up a plastic shelf from Home Depot and got all of the paint off of the ground. I was previously storing it in a cabinet, but it was awkard to get in and out, so a lot of the time it got left out. Obviously.

We primed it first and then applied about 3 coats of paint.

This weekend we also made piles: to throw away, to give away, and to sell. It took all weekend and while the garage isnt beautifully organized, it will do! We are most likely moving in 6-9 months, so we dont want to invest money in organization things that we dont know will work in the next place.

It feels so good to have the garage clean! No more worries about running over paint cans!

and in other organization news, a few weeks ago we repaired my broken closet rod with gorilla glue. I folded and put away some of my clothes that I dont wear as often to lessen the load. So far so good!

Thank you for the advice on how to redo my closet! Like the garage, we didnt want to spend money on something that we arent sure will work in the next place.  

and finally, to leave you with something pretty. 

Saturday we had the most gorgeous sunset (with no filter/edits applied). The iPhone camera doesnt do it justice!

 Hope that your weekend was more fun than ours! 

So I am the only one who has run over a paint can? Probably. What is your worst painting disaster?

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Petersburg Mi Installing the countertop

Ive gotten to the point where I can install the countertop and start working on the bookshelf above! This post is about the countertop.
Ive first installed a base sheet of 5/8" particle board. This is typical for countertop construction, because it gives the top some rigidity, and also brings it a little higher for clearance of the doors below. Ive secured the particle board layer directly to the base cabinets from the top.
Next, Ive cut the countertop piece in my shop to fit over the base sheet. Note: ALL cuts made on the finished cherry are taped off first to prevent splintering by the saw blades. I use the blue painters tape. Ive spent a ton of time on this job just taping things off!
Ive taken the top to the jobsite, and have installed it on top of the particle board base layer, screwing it from below. This will hide any and all fasteners. When ready, I will be making a cherry bullnose to boarder the edges. The owner will be getting a glass top to install over this countertop to protect it.

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Snow today good day to get down to the wood shop and make something!!

Hi Everyone,

Well, its getting cold again and the weather folks tell us that the Twin Cities is about to get clobbered by a snow storm:

Well bring it on--time to get down to the wood shop and go to work!! Yea baby!!

More laminated bowls-Discussion and Plans

For those of you who follow the blog regularly, youll know that I got a giant pile of hickory as a Christmas present last year and Ive been working on using it up. That means using that wood as efficiently as possible so Ive been doing a lot of laminating of late. My latest two efforts revolve around
using up some of the larger flat boards and some of the small pieces that I have so were going to make a medium-sized salad bowl and a nut bowl. Heres how:

Salad bowl

When I laminate wood I generally orient the flat face of the individual wood pieces vertically because I  really love the way that this type of laminated block looks. It emphasizes the grain and because laminated blocks are made of separate pieces of wood, I can play around with grain patterns and color. This time however, Im going to orient the faces horizontally like a stack of pancakes.

So Ive dug into the wood pile and extracted several hickory boards on the basis of the width of the board and its color:

And Im going to add a section of walnut that will become the rim of the bowl.

Next, were going to cut these boards into 11 1/2" wide sections on the table saw:

After several minutes of measuring and cutting I had my bowl blank ready to go. Its going to consist of three layers of hickory and a top layer of walnut for the rim:

Im going to take this inside and glue it later on today. I think this will result in a very cool looking bowl.

While I was at it I came across that piece of monkey puzzle wood I got for Christmas and I cut it into medium-sized blanks that will eventually become a pair of bowls for some lucky person:

Monkey puzzle wood (and no, I dont know why its called that) is a tree that grows in tropical regions and this particular piece came from Florida. Its supposed to be very irritating wood to work with but so far so good. Well see what happens.

Next, since I wasnt completely frozen through, I decided to take some of the small pieces of hickory that I have and make a blank to make a nut bowl out of.

Hickory is a wonderful wood. The color ranges from butter yellow to deep browns, greens, and even wine reds and pinks and its ideal for any type of wood turning. Its also great for laminations because the color varies so much. So its a very good wood and it also has a wonderful scent. My shop smells great.

I cut up the smaller pieces and assembled them and didnt quite have enough pieces to make the blank as wide as I needed it so I cut more hickory and then I remembered a very thin piece of rosewood that I bought last year:

...and I cut it down and added it to the bowl blank:

Even though this is a very thin piece of wood, it was hard to cut it on the table saw.


Here is the bowl stack at present:

Once this is glued up, it will make a very nice nut bowl.

Since its beginning to get really cold, Im going to stop and take the laminating blanks inside so they can warm up. Hickory is a very dense wood and if its too cold, the glue wont dry so everything has to warm up to at least 65 degrees before I can laminate it. Thats ok as I think its time to stop and get something hot to drink.

Im going to glue up at least one of the bowl blanks tonight, probably the nut bowl. As soon as Im ready to put it on the lathe, Ill let you know with another posting.

And another bit of news: I found out Im on the deans list at school--not bad for a wood shop critter!! I think Ill reward myself by going out and buying some red-colored wood!

Thanks for stopping by for a visit. Come back again soon as we always have more adventures in the wood shop.  Ill see you soon.

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