A friend asked me to make some furniture for her daughter’s inherited dollhouse. The little girl is two while the house has furniture designed for adults. These pieces are better suited for children. See how this furniture is made in this post.
The shop is not-quite literally bursting at the seems with wood, but it’s getting hard to find more places to squirrrel it away. I’ve found some good deals lately and just can’t pass it up. Yesterday I picked up some wood – maple, walnut, and oak. Included in the bunch is a 13″ wide piece […]
I’ve been taking lots of new product pictures and working on the etsy shop these past few days, but I wanted to recap the latest show before it’s too far from my memory. A lot has changed since my first show a little more than a month ago. The booth display looks much better and […]
Saturday October 1st. Happy Bungalow will be showing off a month’s worth of new product making. Click on SHOWS above or here Hummingbirds, butterflies, flowers, and more. Fill a vase with flowers that never die, or bring a flower sculpture to work to liven up your home. I’ll also have the new hardwood clocks you’ve […]
You’ve read all the whole behind the scenes series about the hardwood clocks, now find them for sale in Happy Bungalow’s etsy shop.
Missed the creation of the clocks? Read part one, part two, and part three. Hooray! The hardwood clocks are finished (get it? finished?), their dials have been painted, the movements installed, and the hangers hung. Shown below is a strip clock (I’m open to catchier names) and the oh-so-cleverly named five grain clock (five different […]
In the previous post our wood clocks were dry-fitted and glued-up (read the post here). You may remember some dried up glue that leaked out of the joints. The glue was knocked away with a sander as were any wood segments that were higher than the others. Despite the best efforts of the heavy took […]
In part one of the wood clocks process series (read here) I talked about cutting a number of angled pieces of wood. A box-full of wood pieces, in fact. I lay all the pieces out on a table and go to work creating a pleasing composition. With some fussing, this process goes easy until the […]
Hardwood Clocks are in the works here at the Bungalow and I’m here to give you a behind the scenes tour of their construction. At first I made templates for the clocks out of cereal boxes. I figured I could mix and match angles, colors, and the like to make pleasing compositions. I took out […]
I’ve been working for a few weeks (eek, has it been THAT long?) on a new WordPress blog for happybungalow.com. WordPress will give me more flexibility and capabilities than my previous blog software. BUT – I had to learn some new web programming and remember some other programming I had forgotten. Now you can comment […]
