More teether fun!

 Lots of different beads colors.

 One night's batch after sanding and oiling.

 One giraffe trimmed and ready to go to it's new home.

 More cutting, sanding, painting, and gluing tonight.

 Special request - Iowa State teether

And some Texas teethers. Have had to make more of these after people saw them.

Wooden Baby Toys

 We started making wooden baby teethers for some of the parents in my mom's group and business has really taken off. We are offering basically any custom design in walnut, maple, or cherry. They are available with or without colored beads in the center.

 It has been fun doing so many custom orders and seeing what people choose for combinations.

 We started off by making Sam his very own hippo teether.

 So far we have done lots of shapes - dinosaur, shark, elephant, giraffe, hippo, cat, rabbit, turtle, frog, star, guitar, Texas, Iowa, and Wisconsin! I get new requests every day.

 We also had a request for another elephant push toy so we made one of those too.

Laundry Room Progress

Kristen has been working on getting things caulked, the nail holes filled and a first coat of paint on things. Because the wood on the wainscoting is a knotty pine we are putting on coat of a sealing primer before the trim paint. Here you can see some of the nail holes filled prior to sanding, priming and painting.

Here are the shelves removed and painted.

Here you can see some of the wainscoting with the first coat of paint on. We still need to get the joint compound up on the walls and the texture put on.

Next up is getting some wainscoting on the last wall. The first step is to cut out strips from the wall to create a nailing strip for the wainscoting. I used to cut things out like this with the utility knife, now I use a small circular saw with the depth set at 1/2", this makes a much cleaner and quicker cut.

 

Once the strip was removed it was replaced with 1/2" plywood that will act as the nailing surface for the smaller wainscoting panels. You can also see the first small piece of chair rail that is placed on the wall.

Here the baseboard and baseboard cap has been added as well as the wainscoting and chair rail on the last wall in the room.

Here is a view of the other end of the wall. The trim around the door has been started but there is still some work that needs to be done on the furnace side as well at the header at the top of the door. I will work to get the small trim pieces complete between the door trim and the wall before the weekend.

The shelves in the laundry are installed

In the space between the furnace and the hot water heater there is some shelving. Unlike other places in the house we did non-movable shelving here because you have to be able easily take it out and remove both the left and right side of the closet for access. Some brackets were cut and placed under each shelf.

If you look closely just below the center shelf is the joint between the upper and lower access panels. There are four bolts that hold each panel in place.

Here are the finished shelves tucked beside the washer and dryer. They should be pretty useful in this room.

Laundry Room Wainscoting, Baseboard and Trim

We started working on one of the walls putting wainscoting up around the room. First, a section of the drywall had to be cut out and a board added to have something to nail the bead board to at the top and bottom.

Then the chair rail and baseboard were added. One side of the door trim had to be up to fit it to.

Then the slats were added.

The holes were filled. We still need to caulk and sand before priming. You can see the return on the chair rail against the door frame.

 

The wall to the right is next up, you can see that we have done the small section of chair rail, but that is it. We should get this wall done this week sometime after work.