Mother & daughter toolbox #4: Getting distracted and sidelined
Does your inspiration come from children’s books? Yesterday in the library we happened upon a book called “Castor snickrar” (Castor does carpentry) which is a child’s illustrated book about a beaver who is building a toolbox on his grandfather’s cabinetmaking bench. Much of it focuses on the names of the tools he uses, very handy since a) they are the very handtools that we have (eg brace and bit, hand drill, mallet) and b) I don’t know the names of any of these things in Swedish! Anyhow ol’ Castor screws the sides of his toolbox on after boring holes for the screws. I got to thinking that would be a lot more long-lasting than our bent na...
