finished boxes

So far I’ve accomplished a lot in 2009…I spent yesterday constructing and finishing my boxes! woo hoo! I think they turned out pretty good considering my lack of experience. Although they are no where near perfect or in some places flush! But they will work for what they are made for and that is a display.

Earlier this week we measured and cut out the pieces from plywood. I wasn’t great at following the lines so Chris did most of the cutting. Yesterday I spent the day measuring what needed to be trimmed off. Assembling the boxes, sanding, and painting. It sounds like it could happen quicker than it does. It took most of the day!
I learned that I would not make a good carpenter. There’s a lot of measuring and needing to be perfect in cuts and angles. That really didn’t appeal to me while I was making the boxes. But I could definitely understand that that meticulous work would be immensely rewarding when the project is finished. I’m proud of my boxes I couldn’t imagine how happy I’d be if I’d constructed a rocking chair or something fancy! Metalwork has a lot of perfectionism in it too. I greatly appreciate that skill but my taste is more of the rough, natural, non-perfect pieces.

I painted the finished boxes chocolate brown and they’ll stack on top of each other as shown in the picture below. The pepsi can is for scale.

I have a lot of other things on my list of how to display my flowers. I’m not sure what all I’ll get to because I’m starting to get into the beading mood again. I don’t want to fight that when it comes and I have some fun ideas coming to me. I also need to take some pics of some flowers I finished a while back. I’ve just now put them into their finished settings so they are ready to enter the gallery.
This weekend we head to the Dude’s to play video games on his brand new TV. We’re going to get a batch of beer brewing, and he’s going to make us some sushi. mmmmmm, sushi. =0)

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