Creativity Blog

This blog will now become basically a blog about the nifty (as I see them) things that I make. :)
Anyways,
Here's a few things that I've made in the not to distant past.
This is a book bag that I made from lawn chair strapping material that I bought from a thrift store about 4 years ago that I never used.
This first photo is before the top edge and straps were added.
This second one is the finished product.
Sorry, I don't have better pictures. These were taken with my cell phone.











The second featured creation for this post is a little treasure chest kinda thing I made for my sister for her birthday. Pine wood with brass hinges and latch.
It was a difficult build, as I didn't have all the appropriate tools. All I had was a jigsaw, miter box, hacksaw, and drill.
I had to cut the angles for the edges with the miter box and hacksaw, which as you can imagine was a large task. Then, after gluing it together, I had to miter the trim that I put around the edges.
The trim you see around the edge of the lid was the most difficult, as I had to cut two different angles on the ends, that were not complimentary or supplementary. Since this was one of the first wood working projects of mine, I didn't know that wood glue wasn't stainable. Therefore, after staining it and seeing all the splotches, I realized I had to sand down the entire thing, remove the surface wood glue, and re-stain it. Then I sprayed the whole thing with Polyurethane. My original intent was to build three of these, but the first was such a project, I've been a little wearisome of trying it again.









Ah, last but not least. A simple project that I did for my band's booth in the NACA and APCA conferences that we go to to get booked at colleges. The CD display. Basically a small display box that holds 5 CDs, a CD player, and a set of headphones. Here basically is a short photo diary of each step of construction.