WoodworkersWorkshop®

Santa's woodchucks are busy in the workshop. At a recent workshop meeting, one of the woodchuck's expressed his concern for more outdoor work. In his words, "I pine fir the woods to heal my heart and spruce up my soul." Santa said the woodchuck could go outdoors but fir-st he would have to put hi...

Some call them hexagon shelves and others call them honeycomb shelves. No matter what you call them, they are cool. We have no wall space for shelves of this size so when we were contacted to build a set we thought it would be a fun project.

Ever use the barter system? If not, you are missing out. Living in a small community people often barter for services. Case in point, we saw an ad for local firewood that sounded too good to pass up and after contacting the owner, turns out it was someone we knew. See, we have enough firewood for...

4ft x 4ft rack dry mixed wood for fire starting. $20/rack, not including rack. 4-5 available at the moment. Located in Loch Katrine, NS

Today I am going to show you what not to do when upholstering a stool. You’re welcome. We have these two stools at the island in the kitchen and thinking back we have had them for at least 25 years. And for about 15 of those years we weren’t even using them. Not sure why we hung on to them, nothi...

We decided to use up some of our scrap wood to make a piece of art for the living room. I saw something similar on Pinterest and followed the link to Etsy. Yikes. I think they were asking around $400. I knew we could put our own spin on it and decided to give it a go. The first step was to start ...

Making a Round Mirror Frame - We bought a rectangular shaped mirror last year. It would never stay level. So what better way to fix something that is not level? Repalce it with something that never needs to be level!

Turtle Lane Sign - Remember Teresa? Sure you do, she is the pottery kiln lady. A couple of weekends ago we delivered the wood for her outdoor kiln. Well, she dropped by this week and had an idea for a sign for the end of her driveway. The story goes that one day she was on her way to work, and lo...

Our nephew and his wife had their first baby in July. They named her Ruby and she is so tiny and beautiful. I had asked my brother if we were to make something for her nursery, what color should we paint it. He sent along a picture of the nursery and we were all set to get to work. First we had t...