I do agree with my hubby that Eagle #2 is much better! Oooh, I hate it when he’s right! ;~)

When my router went awry…well, I could’ve cried. So many hours of work and I didn’t believe my mother’s gift could be salvaged. I sent out an SOS and boy did you all respond. Your ideas, tips and tricks were amazing but most of all your encouragment left me believing that I could FIX IT!

So I headed downstairs and attempted my FIRST EVER patch job. While not perfect I think it’ll look just fine after it’s stained and polyed. Without Lumberjocks I would’ve scraped the whole door! So from this Damsel in distress…Thank You my LumberJock Heroes!

While I am a very outgoing person I have a very hard time just stopping in to someone’s house to ask a favor like “can I steal your wood?” I was reading Karson's blog today and realized that I just can’t let this opprotunity pass…

I’ve been very quiet recently so I wanted to give a little update as to what I’ve been doing. As you all know, I make carved screen doors primarily. Because the doors measure 36×80 this does require a bit of shop space for negotiating the door. That shouldn’t be a problem considering my shop is my 28×40 basement but….If you’ve ever worked in the basement you know that it has a whole series of problems including no windows, shabby lighting and lack of ventilation. My biggest obstacle though has been clutter. I only recently started using the basement for my own projects. Before that it was half catch-all and half hubby’s workshop. I love my hubby but his workshop method is completely different than mine. I like to start a project with completely clean surfaces and no clutter. He just pushes stuff out of his way and let’s the clutter fall where it may. So we discussed how the orders for screen doors just keep coming and how I really needed more space so it was time for a Workshop Re-Do.

So we sat down and started making plans. I bought a copy of America’s Best Home Workshops. I found 5 projects to incorporate into my new workshop. I was so excited. I even decided to hit the walls with a white concrete sealer as that would add brightness to the dark walls. My plans include swapping the workbench and storage shelf positions. And incorporating a new wall work bench to create an L shaped bench. Oooh, I have sooo many plans. So down I went into the basement and bagged up years of clutter and “collectables”. We finally sorted through the boxes of stuff that migrated here when his parents passed. And we finally picked up the pile of drywall that was left over from the house construction…7 YEARS AGO!!! I thought I had done all the hard work. I was wrong (as usual). Apparently the hard part is getting all of this stuff to the dump. With a borrowed family dump trailer my father made my first dump run. Only to get a ticket because the trailer registration had lapsed a few days before. Luckily, the judge took mercy and there was no fine but that put an sudden stop to the trailer activities. Now, the trailer is registered again but there is a waiting list for it…again.

So here I sit in a basement workshop at that stage of clean-up where everything is worse and nothing is better. I can’t function in the basement at all now. And I wonder…why did I start this whole Workshop Re-Do?

So here’s where things went wrong! I glanced at the featured Lumber Jock and his 5 projects. Very nice. I love the random Lumber Jock feature! Then I scrolled down to the “Recent Projects”. I saw one of interest to me (The Mantle Clocks for Christmas ~~aren’t they nice!) and clicked away. That’s when my brain said, “Wait a second…was that a picture of a wall cabinet? Did it hold a cell phone charger? Did I see a bill sorting area too?” Oh no! I don’t know who the Lumber Jock was! I don’t know the name of the project! That’s okay. I’ll search the keywords/tags. I’m sure I’ll find it there.

It’s been an hour! My soup has boiled over! And All because I’m click happy!

Oh yes, the search will continue…

Now, if y’all could tell me where to get some of that great wood you’ve been using. It sure isn’t carried by my local Lowes or Home Depot!