Projects Abound!

Working on stuff for work is good, it’s what helps pay the bills, but today my mind was Not on work. There are too many projects in my head screaming to be the first one to get built. Next in line for those are the projects that are already in the works.

Currently in the works are a carved burl bowl, 5 slabs of various sizes and shapes that are going to become clocks, wall art, table tops (small, decorative versions), or ? I don’t know yet. Then there are the 12 spatulas I just cut from the scraps left from cutting bowl blanks a month ago. There is a wooden base and an antler that I want to combine into a necklace holder, three or four rounds that are waiting to be turned into boxes, and one whole tote full of rough turned bowl blanks that should be dry enough now to turn to finial shape. Then there is the new base for the “balanced bowls” set that needs finish sanding and a coat or 8 of lacquer.

Besides all those items there are “requested” items like a couple yarn bowls, a rolling pin, a salad bowl and two others that want me to make something out of some wood they have given me in the last year.

Then there are the items that I just have been thinking about making. A sculpture that has been waiting for a couple years now, a base for a big sphere I want to turn... oh and the jig to turn said sphere. Five slabs we cut this summer that look like dog prints that we want to sand down and have for the wall that will represent the team from our high school, the Elgin Huskies. Snowmen that I need to cut the blanks for and get turned for the holidays, some smaller blanks for hollowed ornaments, There are some spoons that need carved, golf balls that have faces drawn on them but have yet to be carved and some wonderful pieces of driftwood that will become faces with flowing hair, or bark that will become cabins/ castles that hang on the wall.

And all of this has not even came from a glance at my “idea” book that I have with me to make sketches in, write up ideas, etc… that would be a whole other list of things. How do other people ever make it through the day? Focusing on just the task at hand is Very tough some days!

Oh, and I’m an article behind for a group of fellow archaeologists who focus on the Aleutian Islands…  Anyone have a few extra hours they can loan me for a few days?