Works in Progress: Celtic Book Box and Doodle Burnings

So, with my new fancy-dancy woodburning system, I have been working on a few projects.
The box above is based off of an idea from Colin (a real, live IRISHMAN!) who suggested the offset cross.

And here is a fun thing I burned up last night:

This tree is kind of creepy, but I like it…I still have to sand and stain them all, but they’ll be up in the shop soon.

Happy Mother’s Day

My friend and fellow Etsy seller Uli (Owner of Sparkles and Fuzz Etsy Store) recently shared her story of the wonderful recipe book prepared for Mother’s Day by the children and staff at her daycare. Each child dictated a favorite recipe and the instructions were recorded word-for-word and collected into a little recipe book. Here is the submission by her Daughter…

How to make Chocolate Chip Cookies

(as recorded and transcribed by her daycare teachers)

I think they sugar in them. Definitely chocolate chips, sometimes she puts Smarties in it. She uses butter. She puts brown sugar in the dough. She uses two eggs in it. She mixes them up with a mixing pan. She puts chocolate chips in it. She takes the bowl off the mixer, I’ll call it that cuz I don’t know what its name is. She puts them on a pan, then puts them in the oven. The balls of dough are this BIG. Then you flatten them up or all the smarties or chocolate chips will fall out or they will break apart. The temperature is really suppose to be 500 degrees, I thin, if my mom put them in the oven for 40 minutes they would like burn so I would think about 5 minutes. She lets them cool down then lets me taste them.

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