lil' old fashioned privacy screen:

as the "wood work" show at the Orange Art Center is winding down, 

i realized i never posted anything about the final pieces.

so today i bring you a picture of the privacy screen.

quarter sawn red oak,
wallpaper painted and designed by sweet friend maria pace of the dusty nettles blog,

and panels made from salvaged chestnut and pine

the show is up until July 31..... go see it!

new saw horse:

this week i will be heading to Richmond to give a little demo. 

while contemplating what to demo and how - as the space is neither a shop nor a studio of any sorts, 

i came up with this idea to mount my vice to demo making spreaders, spatulas, salad hands, etc

while sitting on it to give it weight so it won't move around too much:

-my summer helper Jesse breaking it in-

the whole sawhorse, show horse, funhorse 

was built with leftover or scrap materials that were in the shop, 

my favorite way to make projects.

and i love it even more, when previously painted things match found ones, like the tail and plywood left over from another project

new:

 i took a few new pictures of recently completed items:
        

-handled board, cherry or walnut-

-long board - this one cherry, quarter sawn white oak up top-

-spatulas- which for some reason look tiny here-

-saladhands attacking a zucchini-

blackberries:

blackberry-picking with my love:

pickled green beans:

our beans have been producing well. too much for the two of us to eat: 

so pickled they were:

dream-like:

a few weeks ago, actually it was the day Germany beat Brazil 7:1, 

we had a one of this summer's glorious thunderstorms. 

afterwards, the light outside was very eerie. 

everything had yellowy orange, very dreamlike glow to it: 

these pictures have no filter on them, and did not even begin to capture the beauty that was. 

as the sun set, the colors kept changing, yet the glow remained.