Natures Treasure
When I first started out making things, I, like most other people sourced my materials at the local timber suppliers. This never quite sat right with me. I wanted to know the whole story behind the materials I was working with and so, I started to look at what I could find around me. This […]
A reversible pendant that not only looks good, but that also tells a story. Here, I explain the process required to make this chunky block wood pendant. Materials Here, we use the pieces of branch found by the road in Dubbo. This post follows on from our road trip to visit the Taronga Western Plains […]
Recently, with the whole Covid situation being relatively calm and restriction easing, we decided to go on a little overnight pre-Christmas family road trip out to Dubbo to visit the Taronga Western Plains Zoo. The Drive Being a nice drive of some five hours with plenty of interesting places to see along the way. The […]
I’m not sure when it started but at some point, it became a tradition in our family to give each new child a first Christmas decoration. Well, as it happens, a little while back our neighbours had their first child and as I like the tradition, I decided to make something a little special for […]
A few years ago now I was trying to think of something different to do for Valentine’s Day when I remembered seeing a set of vases hanging on the wall of a shop and decided to see if I could make something similar. This hanging vase project is the result. The vases look especially good […]
Boring old dead sticks are good for nothing but firewood right? Not true at all. As can be seen below you can use them to produce some quite beautiful things. Below you’ll find a great example, a Christmas Star. If you’d like to make your own Step 1: Materials Go out and find your materials. […]
Here we go through the steps required to make a unique wooden necklace using timber that fell from a tree in my garden. Visit the shop to see the selection of wooden necklaces we have available now Step 1 – Decide on the wooden necklace design We start by finding a nice piece of wood […]