Mary Ostler

Well thank goodness that is done. The seat is finished and ready to go. I still have to make a table top, but their is no rush on that as the chair is the present. Weaving the seat with paper rush was harder than I thought ti would be. The top side looks really nice, [...]

The finish line is in sight.  All I have left is a little bit of light sanding (where the clamps where used) a once over with more wipe-on poly urethane, and weave the seat. My mom asked if I was making any thing for her this year. I couldn’t help myself but burst into laughter. [...]

The Long an plodding road continues with Emily’s Highchair. I am getting tired. I will be glad when I finally get to finishing this chair. I am actually rather excited about doing the reed seat on the chair. The arms are shape kind of like an exclamation point. I walked around the house menacing people with the [...]

Got a bit more done on the highchair. The barley twist and fluting is finally finished. Its a pretty good match, although the foot profile is different from the front to back legs. Once they are not so close to each other, it will hardly be noticeable. This was the most difficult part so far. Trying [...]

The deadline for the tent is drawing near. I still have a bunch of stuff to do, and only a couple of days to do it. I started in on the carving. Carving has never been my forte, but it is a fairly simple pattern… The carving is finished. I am not overly happy with [...]

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 [...]

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