boxes underway

well, it was a beautiful weekend, so laura figured it was time to start sanding away at the boxes.  we've got seven all screwed together, with enough wood for two more boxes.  problem is the other plywood is really warped.  they've been sitting in a moist pillowcase under some weight for a week plus, but it's not really working.  so we figure might as well get cracking on the rest.

so she went at it and got all seven sanded down with some medium then fine sandpaper.  we'll be staining them sometime soon and see what we're left with.

anyways, here's the carpenter at work:

--dave

bookshelves…

so we've been working on this project (well not actively "working" but at least thinking about it) for a few weeks now.  we wanted a new lamp for the dining room, and while we found some cool ones in shops, the best ones are pretty expensive.  so we figured this would be a good project for us to play around with.

we decided to build some wooden cubes that could be stacked around in different configurations.  some of the cubes will end up being covered in fabric and we'll stick a light in there.  so we'll have a lamp and a bookshelf.  drew up my idea in google sketchup:

so we got some plywood from home depot a few weeks ago, and had them cut some 15" squares.  not the most accurate cuts, but i guess it's the best we can do until we get a garage and some power tools.

here's one box after gluing and clamping him down:

and bruno wishing he could be out there chewing and destroying all our hard work...

we ended up just gluing and screwing together three boxes yesterday...

so we'll get the rest together, do some more sanding and staining, and we should be getting closer to at least something interesting...