Lazy Susan

My sister in law asked if I could make her a lazy susan for the middle of her table. I played around with various types of wood, putting them all together and this is what I came up with.
The bottom turning mechanism isn't attached yet when this picture was taken.

Pepper Dish

This is a new little candy (or whatever) dish I carved. I call it my pepper dish because it looks like the jalapeno peppers down here.

Trinket box

On this one, I made the box to the size to accomodate the design that was being used. Both Sandy and I like how this turned out.

It's been awhile

since I've posted anything new. Not because I haven't been busy - - I have.
This was requested by our daughter for her friends daughter's piano. The first picture shows it overall and the second photo shows (I hope) that this is a 3 dimensional piece rather than just being flat.

A lovely Burled box

This is a gorgeous stitched piece mounted into the lid of a burled box. The box can be reproduced if wanted.

Claudia's Spool Storage Box for the wall

This box was made to Claudia's specifications to hold all of her silk floss spools. Painted in a rich, deep chocolate brown. The front of the box is made to hold your stitched piece. Scroll down to the white box with the stitched cats on the front to see what it would look like.

Spool Storage

This box is made to hang on a wall with removable spindle shelves for spool storage. The 'cover' opens from the right and is intended to have a picture (stitched or otherwise) inserted into the frame. The spindles are offset so you can see your thread color without having to remove the shelf. As always, we'd love to hear from you in you're interested in a special spool storage unit for yourself.
This is another shelf configuration. You can store the regular spools on the thin pegs and mini spools on the larger pegs. Mini's can be stacked 3 high to equal the regular spool height.

You've asked for it and now it's here!!

Thanks to Lauren of Sassy's Fabrics for the linen, Vikki Clayton for the silks and Stepanie of Nouveau Encore for the custom design. Of course without Larry creating the cakset for me, this would not be gracing my livingroom! This is made of a lovely dark cherry finished wood and sports gold knob feet.

The top opening is 4x6".

The lid is hinged and the front and back panels are identical. The openings are 2x6"

The end panels are also identical and the openings measure 2x4"

The design is available for sale on Stepanie's website (http://www.nouveauencore.com/). If, however, this is just not your style, Quaker motifs would work really well for all the openings.

Hope you like it!! If you're interested in owning a mini casket, please email us.

Decorated Hornbook

For my wife, she already had the chart picked out that she wanted to mount to the front of the hornbook so the size I made was pre-determined. Of course you can go smaller or larger depending upon what you want to mount on yours.

HORN BOOKS

My wife asked me to make her a hornbook (I didn't even know what it was!). This is the hornbook without any stitched ornamentation. As with all things, I'm finding that the final size is determined by the person wanting one. So email me with questions and I'll be happy to see about creating one for you.