Monkeys!!

Took 2 hours to cut this out. I still have to go back and do the chest squiggles and the smile on 2 of the monkeys, but I got this much done!

Some New Stuff

Well, and some old. I have finished Furla's sign. Wooohoo **the crowd cheers!** and I hope I can finish sealing it by this weekend so I can mail it out to her by Monday. It came out pretty darn cool. Yeah, I only have the pic from when I had it clamped. Deal with it! LOL.



In other news I made a silly little wooden toy too. If I had that drill press I wanted, I might have done a spiffy job of it. As it were I drilled the holes by hand on the edge of a wiggly table. It was fun, but I wasn't really trying to do a perfect job. I just wanted to see if I could do it.




I got a cool magazine from a friend from my moms group and I tried one of the patterns for ornaments. Its done with a type of woodworking called Fretwork. Which I take to mean, TONS OF TINY LITTLE HOLES!! At least it seems that way to me. I like it, but I can definitely tell fretwork is not for me. I hate having to keep pulling on and off my blade to feed it through the predrilled starter holes. So I guess I wont make too many of these this Christmas.



I love the patterns for the scrollsaw in this magazine. My next project (probably tomorrow night's project) is a monkey puzzle. I want to do this and then stain the body a different darker stain while leaving the face or chests, where possible, unstained or whitewashed. How cute are they?!!