Decorative Oil Lamp

The Captain's favourite on-line shop is Lee Valley, for their fantastic tools for all the woodworking projects he does at home.  One of his recent purchases was a handful of oil lamp inserts which he found a rather curious project to do just for fun.

This is what got him interested...

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and this is what he did with it....

He used a beautiful piece of rosewood and turned it as a trial, since we haven't had much practice on the lathe yet. It turned out (turned....haha...) very nicely and with a little bit of citronella oil it burns beautifully and smells divine too.

Happy day!

Wood Art

Wood Art/Word Art as seen at Kamersvol Geskenke . I have absolutely NO idea who this exhibitor is; if anyone can let me know so I can credit them, it would be great. Tx!

Happy day!

Office desk

Since we moved here four years ago, we've not had a proper desk. What served it's purpose until now, was a couple of sets of trestles with a plank on top of it. Not very nice, I know, and we never realised how bad it looked until The Captain finished making our desk(s) and we could see the huge difference. The blue desk top is made of laminated glass and I think it looks just fabulous.  We have raised stands for the computer screens and when not in use, the keyboards can be stored underneath, where kitty kats can't get to it. (Our Tofi likes to sleep on top of the keyboards, for some reason known to only her, hehehe.) 

 Sleek no? And pretty awesome too!

Happy day!

PS
in case you were wondering why the blue cover sits higher over the screen than the red one, there's a webcam attached to the top of the screen; that's why.... (wink, wink!)