Thank you Steven

The other day Kev over on An English Homestead was talking about the wooden items he'd made for Christmas.  They were fabulous and in telling him so, I commented that my husband makes things out of wood, in his own style.  I've posted before about the room he built in the barn which he made into his gym, the raised beds he is in the middle of doing, the fences that he's put up single handily, the chicken brooders, pens, duck house and sheds that he's put together by the beg, stealing or borrowing (ok not stealing), the signs that he created when we built Chickenville, the egg holder when our hens started producing, the fireplace that we were quoted hundreds of pounds for that he made for £16 from 2nd hand wood, the tack room and many other thing. 
On the same day Kev was posted about his latest wooden goings on, Steven walked in from his garage workshop with this little beauty. 

I think we too may be moving in to making our own Christmas presents, although I wouldn't want to wrap this.  How fabulous.  It has pride of place in the kitchen.  The sign on the front was bought for me by my Mum for Christmas...I have no ideas why ;). 

I do love seeing the creativity of people to help sustain their lives, for whatever reason and it whatever manner. 

Brilliant :)

Pics below of a few of the items I've mentioned.  It was only supposed to be a short post but I got carried away - so as the title says, thank you Steven, you've done us proud in our first year xx

Egg holder

Brooder in garage, we quickly upgraded.

Field fence done

Gym during planning phase

Gym after

Growing pen (ignore the vorwerks!)



Tack room

First fence that went up

Before fire place

After

Duck house framework....reclaimed

Duck house

The weather today remains milder than you would expect for January.  4.8C in the barn this morning and a bright, dry day all round.  The cold is coming though!

Gorgeous husbands shenanigans!

It seems that our pace of life is super sonic at the moment.  The days are just whizzing by.  As we speak GH is busy cooking veg for the coming days lunches that he takes to work, as he is starting his health kick / training again.  Grace, our daughter is in there too making herself busy by talking a lot.  My son is sound asleep in bed and I'm about to start another hour of study for the exam I have coming up on Friday (which I am dreading and feel thoroughly unprepared for).

Catching up on the last couple of weeks, GH has made a wine rack for the kitchen.  It's only supposed to be a design/draft piece but I told him it was that good, that he should put it up in the kitchen whilst he worked on the "proper" one.  I think it's fabulous.

The chicken shed project is now finished and included a re-spraying of the 2 sheds and the fence in between them.  We decided to keep the old shed instead of buying a new one and just repair it.  Total cost was £15 instead of £350 (minimum) that it would have cost us.  All money that is better in our pockets than the shops! 

GH has had a week off work recovering from his operation and made good use of himself (his choice!) by redesigning the big cupboard too.  This was it before and after. 

He also bought himself a new toy - £2 - cheaper than a new computer ;o)

 

I have my great spring clean week coming up soon so once my exam is over I will be preparing for that and keeping regular posts along the way.  It won't be just cleaning but preparing, cooking, baking and pondering too.  Bliss.