next project!

the plan is to rebuild this thing and make a little guest house where we could live if we ever tear down and rebuild the main house. all i want to do in life is design and build little sheds!

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homemade maple syrup!

We made maple syrup from sugar maples on our property. How cliche are we? city folks.. 
From something like 12 gallons of sap, and 2 days of boiling, this is what we are left with.
Feels like summer camp, or what I would imagine summer camp to have been like had I ever gone.

cd shelves, finally!

we finally put up shelves for all of our cds (mine are the bottom row only, the rest are all matt's!) in our guest room. next to it, we have a stand with a record player and alex's womb chair nearby too, so it's kinda like a listening room, i'm hoping to read in here and fall asleep often.
the shelves are painted 1" mdf boards on rakks brackets - i don't know why i got such stubby brackets (4") - my best guess is that i was trying to save money or something, but they work ok.

Wedding present

so this is a heavy brass bottle opener made in Sweden that I engraved with a combo name of the bride and groom (maybe that's too hollywood celebrity-ish!) oh well. i hope it lasts as long as the marriage, which is, forever of course :)
i think in the future i'll try to play with the kerning, maybe stretch out the name a little more...

for brian hagood + charisma panchapakesan

for ben judson and callie enlow