First Friday

A little exciting event for myself is occuring this Friday. I'm showing some of my furniture work at a First Friday Gallery at Urbana Modern Furniture Studio. Its at 1910 Main Street and these events usually get going after happy hour and last a few hours. Urbana is hosting a fund raising event for Greensburg, Kansas........specifically I believe the money is going to the Big Well. They were looking for artist that use recycled objects in their art, so everything I'll be showing is recycled in some way. The planters I just finished up will be on display as well as a couple of dining chairs and the little mahogany end table.

Ipe Raised Vegtable Garden part 2 the installation

After a busy two days I got the garden bed installed. I must say its massive, but it does look really cool in the yard. Jessica was off yesterday and was able to help me set the sections in place which made it go a lot easier.

Ipe Raised Vegtable Garden

Made some good progress on the raised garden over the weekend. Worked in the garage with my neighbors John and Eric on various things as we recovered from too many Pabst Blue Ribbons. The ipe is amazingly hard and I really think this planter is going to last longer than I am. Today I sanded, predrilled, finished, and waxed the ipe. Hopefully I'll get it partially assembled this evening.

Before the planks were oiled.

Studio Build

I have been busy lately working on some Studio Build stuff. Building a fireplace mantle for my job in Wichita, designing and making some Ipe and Steel planters. We have decided to build a large raised garden this year our attempt at growing tomatoes and jalapeno peppers last year in pots has spurred Jessica to want to test her green thumb. I've been working on making the raised bed look really nice in our yard, so I tracked down some really cheap Ipe. I plan on building the raised bed this weekend so look for those next week.