Saturday 20 October 2012

Pure Touch - Business cards

A Fellow Reflexologist asked me to make him a Business card.
Here was the first Idea
Front - Pure Touch 1
Back - Pure Touch 1
After sitting with the design for awhile Gary felt it was not him anymore and came up with the next design
 Gary does amazing work you can check out his website: www.puretouch.ca

Thursday 18 October 2012

Lighting my Desk

I live in a very old house. Good Lighting is a little difficult to get without having to re-doing the entire electrical in the house. Simple cheap solution: 2 hanging lights, like cafe lighting above my desk. I have a dimmer switch on an extension cord that I will plug these lights into.

I went to Ikea and bought the cheapest hanging wire with light socket and plug, (which happened to be on sale for $4.99each) they were this funky green colour which I liked. My neigbours fence had fallen down and there was this amazing weathered wood which I grabbed up right away before it went straight to the dump.

I cut a hole to fit the light socket, in a small 4inch X 4inch by 1inch thick cedar board that was in my to burn pile. Then cut the fence boards to 9inch lengths and found the ones that fit nicely together. I Used 2 different sized drill bits to randomly drilled holes to allow some light through. Screwed the fence boards onto the small 4X4 board put the light through and tightened the plastic ring to hold the lampshade on ... there you have it! sweet inexpensive one of a kind, your very own internet cafe lights.


Kids Stool

My Friend asked if I could build him a kids stool for his 2year old. He looked everywhere for the right size but could not find it.

I built it with a left over 2X10 (legs) and some 2X4s pieces (the top of the seat). To make it safe and not easy to tip over ... the legs are out by 5degrees. The finish is some left over solid stain, sanded of on the edges to give it that worn look.

The finished Kids stool