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I’ve had my eye on a DIY platform bed project utilizing the Tatami style joinery for a couple years now, but another project always seemed to keep coming up. That all changed recently when my daughter decided to redesign her room with a minimalist modern look and decided to ditch the old spindle bed. This was the perfect opportunity for that clean, elegant platform bed design I’ve been looking to do.
If you’re a repeat visitor, you may have noticed the My Store menu button up top. Last week I set up a store on the site using WooCommerce and will be moving my downloadable woodworking plans over to it from FetchApp, my current store and fulfillment platform. Turns out WooCommerce for WordPress does everything that FetchApp does, minus the hefty monthly fee! As I migrate my downloads to the new store platform, if anyone has a problem accessing the download link, please shoot me an email and I’ll respond right away. Also, the detailed plans will always be available as blog posts, and you can still link to them from the woodworking drop down menu. Also, I’ve added some of my coffee bag wall art to the store as well and will gradually be putting some of my other artwork up as I have time. Thanks!
As I’ve been developing my drawing and painting skills, it doesn’t matter whether I’m taking a class or watching online tutorials, I’m constantly reminded of the importance of value. If you’re reading this post, you’ve probably heard a hundred times that values are more important than shapes and proportions (even though they are important too!). But values are the foundation of a drawing or painting.
I’ve been working on a few new pieces of wall art made from coffee importer bags. These things are so cool! I recently picked up a few bags, but wasn’t sure exactly what I would do with them. The visuals on the bag caught my eye and they just have this cool coffee shop vibe that I wanted to come up with a way to experience. Then I ran across another piece of decorative wall art printed on burlap, the two ideas collided and here are my first two pieces…
I’ve been trying to figure out how best to position large canvases for painting since my current easel isn’t all that great and I’d rather spend the limited time I have painting rather than constructing another easel (which I’m sure I’ll do at some point). One of the challenges I keep running into is how to position my canvases, particularly the bigger ones, vertical instead of at an angle.
As a part of our company’s culture building, we’ve developed a list of 21 Standards that define who we are, what we do and how we do it. Prominently displayed in the office, the standards are designed to be daily reminders for everyone of how our culture and ethos differentiates us from the competition. This year, one of Drew’s ides to help reinforce the standards at a personal level is to have everyone pick a standard or two and write a short essay on what the standard means to them. Once again, it’s my turn.
One of my goals this year has been to focus more on my sketching and painting work and to try and develop some consistency and some continuity of themes, which in the past have totally been all over the place. That’s an exercise that’s been particularly challenging for me because in addition to a busy workload as a part of a startup company and family responsibilities in a house full of teenagers time is very scarce and creative energy often has to be subservient to the necessities of life and the thought of being able to establish some kind of routine is, I’m afraid at this point of my life, more a pipe dream than a process. But that’s not to say I’m not trying!
As a part of our company’s culture building, we’ve developed a list of 21 Standards that define who we are, what we do and how we do it. Prominently displayed in the office, the standards are designed to be daily reminders for everyone of how our culture and ethos differentiates us from the competition. This year, one of Drew’s ides to help reinforce the standards at a personal level is to have everyone pick a standard or two and write a short essay on what the standard means to them. I have the first one, the Golden Rule.
I’ve finally finished compiling my reading list for 2018. I absolutely devoured books this year thanks to Audible and a long work commute. I guess that may have something to do with the fact that 2 years into the Trump administration, the new is still “all Trump all the time” and I’ve gotten so sick of politics that I want to inject something worthwhile into my mental hard drive even if I know I won’t retain most of it! Actually, my strategy is to give the audio book a first listen and if I really like it, then pick up a hard copy for my library. I’ve also found the clips and notes feature on Audible to be really helpful when I want to go back and remember where I’ve heard something.
We’ve spent the last 9 weeks studying Christianity and culture from the very basics of defining what culture is to understanding multiple paradigms through which we, as Christians, can effectively engage the culture from a Christian worldview. As we near the end of our study, we’ll take a deep dive into Tim Keller’s 4 “cultural camps” and tackle the questions, “Which one does the Bible teach?” and ultimately, “What do I believe?”
