Mary Ostler

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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 [...]

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.