Handmade Christmas 2012

This year's handmade gifts were, once again, a big hit with all of us. I wasn't as stressed this year about mine, which was nice, so I enjoyed myself quite a bit while making them.

This is a small shelf I built for Sarah to go in our downstairs bathroom. It's quite simple but it does the trick. Made from pine with simple dado and miter joints, it was pretty straight forward to build but looks good (if I do say so myself).

Both girls have fallen in love with the BBC series, "Dr. Who", but especially Elizabeth so I made her this Christmas decoration of the Dr.'s ship the Tardis. I used the wood from a clementine crate for my materials so I didn't really have to do much milling or anything. I used thick super-glue on it, so once everything was cut out, gluing it together was very quick.

Lastly is this earring hanger for Helen. She's been making jewelry like crazy for a couple years now so this is a really useful gift for her. It's about 12"x14" with plain old construction mesh stapled to the back. As you can see, she's already started to use it!