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18th February 2007, 11:20 PM #271
Thanks Beryl! The desk top is about 1500 x 1000 mm. I'm glad you have your new desk now!
Hi Sleeping-wood. We bought the trestles at an auction, as we knew we'd need them long term - and they're always handy for other work, too. Not sure if there are any hire places around here that have them, but I assume so. Thanks for the congrats, too!
Thanks again, John! I'm glad you like it!
Hi Mong - I'll take a photo from the top for you when I post next. Thanks for your kind words!
We had a weekend away last week, also some rainy weather, so I haven't yet finished the sewing/ironing cabinet, but I've made my fold out ironing board and sewing table, etc. This week my main project (between everything else) is our son's bed - as he turns 6 next Sat. and I want to have it done by then. He's going to help me where he can. The post he chose for his bed head has a dirty great scar in it and is about 150mm in diameter! We also started on the outside bricks yesterday! All being well, we should have pretty well finished laying them in 6 weeks - just in 'after work' time & Saturdays. We want to get the Conservatory roof on and the in-slab heating gear all set up before it gets too cold or wet!
Cheers & catch you next week!
Jill
P.S. Here's the pic for you Mong. Complete with my V'day flowers from Steve!
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19th February 2007, 04:28 PM #272
Hey there stranger !
been walkabout for awhile and looks like I a whole lot of catching up to do here. Much more to follow in a day or two...Cheers
Wayne
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20th February 2007, 07:03 PM #273
Hi Wayne!! I wondered where you'd got to! Great to see you back again! I'm looking forward to catching up when you have time!
Cheers,
Jill
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24th February 2007, 03:46 PM #274
Woohoo, you've moved in!
Hope you don't miss the shed/workshop too much, Ali came to life again in there so I will
Well the house is looking simply stunning, I was amazed when I first saw it and nothing has changed now. I still can't get over how much you're prepared to do yourselves and how much time and effort you're putting into this but the end result is a home that's full of warmth,charm and character.
Looking back through the posts I've missed it's all coming together beautifully, for my money nothing looks out of place, it all seems to fit just right. Love the kitchen that really turned out well and damn that pizza flavoured benchtop is something else isn't it! Apart from all the major work you seem to have something happening in every little nook and cranny as well, all really nice little touches too.
I wonder if you're aware of a future problem though, when it's all done and dusted you'll never be able to sell cause it's priceless
You, Steve and the kids have got this building game mastered, I raises me hammer and salutes thee.
ps: I'll send an email soon, love to hear how all things art are going.Cheers
Wayne
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25th February 2007, 01:14 AM #275
Hi Wayne - it's so nice to have you around again!!! Do you still have the same email address? I've loads of artwork to show you, too - including some of the kids'! They're going great guns! Thanks so much for your reply and all the kudos, etc. - LOL - and I'm glad you like my pizza flavoured benchtop in the kitchen!!! I must have been hungry when I coloured it!!
So true - the shed was really quite a cute little home for us, and Chantelle drawing Ali - then you finding the art forum for us, sure has got us motivated artwise! It will make a great workshop, tho' - when it's all set up!! Loads of different fun to be had in there then! Furniture built by the kids and I, etc.!
We laid 120 blocks today - along the back of the house (Northern wall, and exposed to the weather) and around the ends to doorways...so it is pretty much half the wall height in those areas & looks so different! I might take some pics tomorrow and tack on here! Amazing how fast they go up when you don't have all the logs to fit around, like the inside was!
Cheers,
Jill
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25th February 2007, 04:09 PM #276
Yeah, still the same email. Along with THE drought, been a severe art drought over here too. Looking forward to seeing yours and the kids work.
I can imagine you guys spending just as much time in the workshop as the house over the years ahead, can't ever see it becoming derelict and full of cobwebs
You guys still on the trowel, silly me, thought you'd finished
Me, I helped the neighbour replace a fence, not my favourite pursuit on a sunday but it desperately needed doing and it was a nice cool day here for a change.
Time for a beer or two, speak to you soon...Cheers
Wayne
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5th March 2007, 09:56 AM #277
Hey... you put another picture!! *cough* don't remimber hearing that there was an update. lol Looks great! Did you finish Bj's bed yet?
Thanks- Glad to have my new desk now too! was just using it!!! Just starting another graphite/charcoal drawing.
Hey what was that thing you were talking about for the frame of the last one? for the jewels. I still have to get the timber for that too... hmm need to get back to my wood eh?
Hope your building goes GREAT!!!!
Beryl
ps- and really cute flowers
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5th March 2007, 10:19 AM #278
Hi Jill, Now that the guest house is nearlly finished, I inagin you will be starting on the main house.
SteveThe fact remains, that 97% of all statistics are made up, yet 87% of the population think they are real.
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30th April 2007, 09:26 PM #279
Thanks Beryl - I haven't finished BJ's bed - still, sorry! Not the easiest design, or the easiest timber to use, either - typically! I'm looking forward to seeing your next scrollsaw project!
Hi Ticky! Yep - the cottage/studio is almost done! Lol - and even Steve is already thinking of what we might build for a retirement home (many years down the track till we'd need that, mind you!).
Here are some pics at last. The fiddly brickwork between the unlined veranda rafters took more time, but we're all done, now! Great to see our windows on the outside at last, and to have a view!
Thanks everyone!
Cheers,
Jill
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30th April 2007, 10:26 PM #280
Our satellite is playing up - but we won't complain about the rain!
The sewing centre isn't finished yet, but mostly just doors to do - but I made a little ironing board, and made my own brackets to hinge it from - I'll make covers for it soon. The rest are self explanatory, I think.
Thanks,
Jill
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30th April 2007, 10:49 PM #281Senior Member
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Jill, after browsing through your pics etc, I have established two things ....
1/ you do some great work with raw materials ......well done.
2/ you have way to much spare time on your hands ....great to see someone do some fantastic work with wood
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1st May 2007, 09:02 AM #282
And you've even got a moat - how cool is that!!! Can't wait to move in. Looks fantastic Jill
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1st May 2007, 09:33 AM #283
Hi Jill,
So lovely to see how much progress you have made. Your home is magnificent.
I love the ironing board you made. Any chance of a few more photos of it? I'm very interested as I'll be making an ironing board centre for my renovated laundry.
cheers
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1st May 2007, 10:16 AM #284
Lol Manoftalent and thank you! I'm still trying to find a clock with more hours in the day, tho'.
Hi TTIT - That will all be veggie garden up the back where I took that pic from, and I'll build a couple of little bridges to go across the contour bank. Danita's building a pond at one point, too. The garden plans will keep us out of mischief for a year or two!
Hi Wendy and thanks. I've hardly been on here, so I have some catching up to do! You posting about your laundry? I'd love to see it!
Here are the pics for you, Wendy. I'll post more once it is all finished. The fold-out sewing centre is almost done the other end of this cupboard, too - I just have to fit the hinges to the fold out table I made, (apart from doors). I'll attach a pic anyway - you're capable of picturing hinges, and also varnish! The shelf underneath is more narrow so that I can put timber compartments on the back of the doors to hold bits and pieces. The machine and overlocker will sit in behind the table when it's folded up, so they don't have to be lifted - just pulled straight out. Steve's going to fit a power point there for me - see cable. The doors will all be Marri (W.A. Redgum - much like Tas' Oak, with a Qld. Bloodwood vein here and there!), and the top ones will have gothic arches. I have to mill all the timber yet for them - out of 6 x 3's...on our Trusty Triton!
Thanks!
Jill
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1st May 2007, 12:56 PM #285
284 posts in this thread and I've just now finished reading them all. I've also crossed out every question I noted down to ask because someone else asked for me! There are no other words to use in admiration of what you and your family achieved.
I think a wonderful way to finish the exercise (when you believe it's all done) would be to do a 'walk-through' with a video camera looking at EVERYTHING as if a prospective buyer.
Anyway here is a very inadequate "well done"!
soth
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