Mary Ostler

Named after Bruce “Don’t call me Ash” Campbell. My Turnip!

The big push is on. I will be leaving on Friday for Avacal/Tir Righ war. My deadline for finishing this project was this event, so I needed to get on with it.

All of the side panels have been cut out, carved, primed and painted.

Sides and doors with the heraldic badges painted in bright colors.

The butterfly [...]

More painting done on the front door panel. The two headed cock just makes me laugh. I used it as my main charge for a long time, but never bothered registering it. The other two symbols are the populace badges for An Tir, and Tir Righ.

Used a commercial gesso to prime and fill the door [...]

Heavy image laden post. I’m in a hurry so its gonna mostly be images
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Dogzilla checking out the progress.

Just a quick image laden post on my folding aumbry camp cupboard.

Quick doodle of my rough plan. I am basing it loosely on three images from Victor Chinnery (sp?) “Oak Furniture”

I have got it into my thick skull that I will enjoy raising Silkworms.  The whole selective breeding for specific traits appeals to the farmer in me.
I could be raising silkworms right now, as everything you need to raise silk can be bought on line. Somehow buying silkworm chow  seems like cheating, so long before [...]

The other day I posted on a set of foldable shelves. I have since that time had the idea tickling the back of my mind. I did a quick doodle of how I could adapt Sir Geoofrey’s shelves into a foldable Ambury cupboard. Well the doodle has grown into a cardboard mock up of the [...]

Got a bit more done on the Turned Bedframe

Have all the larger dowels roughed down to size

Starting in on the Center Doughnut.

Turning a 1″ sphere with two 1/2″ 90′ holes through it is hard… real hard!

Doughnut in bedframe

Center panel with 1″ spheres. The small dots are 1/4″ buttons. Not sure if I’ll add them or [...]

Since I have been playing around with milk paint, I decided to try my hand at making my own milk curds.

I don’t want to muck about with cooking, so the test will be done at room tempature.
1L skim milk (.4%mf, and three days from expiry date)
apple cider vinegar  5.5%a.acid (all i had)
Control = ~350ml  s.m.
Trial#1 [...]

Alright,
Heres my drawing (one step up from the doodle) of the turned bed frame.

Heres a picture of a example of the insanity a wood turner can get up too. I have found no images of a bedframe done in such a manner, but I can so believe that a turner would have been just as [...]