Tag: crafts

Workbench Time Lapse – Kids’ Workbench Build

trevor

As promised in the last video, here’s a project the kids and I did a few weekends ago! After dismantling the kids’ abandoned workspace in the shop, my eldest and I reclaim a bunch of scrap in the basement and get to work building a new desk for their crafts and homework. We had so much fun building it, and they absolutely love the result! The biggest concern was the material itself. We committed to just building it out of whatever we had on hand, and what we had was…

The Longest Paddle: A Story of Woodworking and Carving Out a Family

trevor
paddlemaking tools

When I finished cleaning my tools and putting them away after finally finishing carving my 6-year-old’s stepdaughter’s first paddle today, I had to wonder why it had been so long since I worked on it. A little background. My family has deep ties in Algonquin Park, and a lot of my family’s history has to do with rangers and guiding and paddling. Through Omer Stringer, we have ties to most of the major camps in Algonquin Park and to Roots through the Beaver Canoe brand. This is no brag; it’s…

The Tiny Enterprise Project

trevor

It all started for me when I was just a tiny person. Games in the sandbox, snowbank, or hedges with Star Trek: The Next Generation action figures. There was no limit to what games I could play, because the rules of Star Trek were such that I could do anything I imagined. Add I get more involved in the lives of Natalie Joy‘s girls, I find myself reflecting on a lot of the play I did as a kid. And for the first time in my life I’m getting pretty…