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"L.L. Bean" Basket

I've already told you about how I did this, but here are some pictures showing the progression of the basket :-)  I need to sand it to smooth out a lot of places and then I might stain it.  But its 95% done right now.  In this picture you can see what I did with the wire on the other side of the inner end piece.  You'll notice how I cut off the piece that connects all these ends so that I could bend them over the wood and then HOT glue it.  This way hopefully the wire will never pull out of the wood.

This is my work table.  TADA!  I want to make a nicer table to work on, and really want to clean up the entire basement workshop area, but its all my dads stuff so I don't know if I will or not.

 

I used the circular saw to cut the "U" into the outer end pieces, that way I could get the two pieces of wood to fit together nicely.

 

Left: This is WOOD glue!

Right: You saw this when we were skyping, but here's a pic of the setup all clamped together.

 

DONE!  I should put a picture of the one from the LL Bean catalog next to a picture of mine for comparison.  Their handle was attached differently, and I'm guessing they attached their wire differently but its impossible to know.  Also, their handle is a more drastic curve which makes it easier to get things into and out of the basket.  If I make another, I will make a bigger handle like theirs, use solid wood for the end pieces (as opposed to plywood), and maybe get a little more creative with how I attach the handle or what I make the handle look like. :-)  So far I think it's come out pretty well though.  I'll take a picture when I'm completely done with it for you.

Burney wurney

Tea Time

FLOWERS!! Yayyy!

Clean!

 For whatever reason, I feel like every weekend I spend a lot of my time cleaning.  I don't really get it.  It must be because I show up Friday night and don't unpack and then my stuff sits around and then gets thrown on the floor, and then I always want to leave it relatively clean to come back to.  This week I did a really good job though O:-).  Wish you could be here to enjoy the new cleanliness of my room!

I keep trying to put two small pictures next to each other, but am not having any luck.  I'm not sure if they changed how everything works in here, because I've done it before.  It's not a big deal though so don't worry about it :-).

Reunion #4 - MT

I meant to do this a while ago, but better late than never!  Here are the few pictures I(we) took while I was out visiting.  I think the one above is nice (as nice as a self-taken picture can be).  It shows the weather really well from that day.  I have another one of us with our goggles on, but pictures are always kinda goofy with goggles.  I can send it to you, if you want. 

Here's a picture of the speed-skater himself!

This is also a pretty nice one of us.  Except for the fact that I look really sweaty and that I have a big white footprint on my shirt.  You look very nice though :-)

These two are pretty self explanatory:  I felt bad because of the picture you took of yourself... so I took a similar one of myself.  Just for you :-)