Since I neglected you all and hibernated in the real world for a week, I decided to give you a twofer today! Yippee!


And, since I focused on all the domestic love and handicraft being done for Pea, I thought I'd give you a glimpse into the testosterone-infused side of domesticity and crafting around here. (I'll come back to the testosteroneness in a moment, Denise.)


Aaron has been faithfully plugging away at building the boys' bunkbeds. Usually I say "we" are building the beds since I fulfill such useful roles as being the clamp before the actual clamp gets put on and wiping up glue that smooshes out of joints. But, as I was gainfully employed in such domesticity (lovely word, don't you think?!) as cake-baking, cake-decorating, bedskirt sewing, child-rearing, Happy Birthday singing, and so on, I could hardly be called upon to be the Shop-Master's lovely assistant. Until tonight. Because I'm so good at what I do that it's all done (with the sizable exception of the Christmas stockings... and the actual housework). So, I helped with the gluing and clamping sensation pictured below.



You see, these are the footboard ends of each bed. Cool huh? Here's a close-up.



And here are the safety rails that go on the top bunk.



Here's a sample of the finishes. The left is the stained maple for the basis of the beds. The right is the polyurethaned bubinga for the inlays. Beautiful, aren't they? (If you look closely at the above pictures you can see some of the stain on the maple around the edges of the inlay since that would be too difficult to do once they are put together.)



Regarding the big reveal, I promise it will be up Aug 6 or 7. And, no Denise, it has nothing to do with the stag. In fact, the vine is about to be pruned. So, think BIGGER. This is REALLY BIG! I'll publish the whole, wonderful God-story as soon as we get back from the Festival. Hold onto your seats, folks! It's really not boring around here any more!