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Where did this come from?

Forty-five days left, if we stay on schedule.

And counting.

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Full of movies

Oh, what the heck, here’s one more picture of the cabinet.

How much of our movie collection can you identify?

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Another angle!

So you can see it in all its permutations. Because this is important.

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Woodburning!

I finished the cabinet weeks ago, but dithered endlessly about how to decorate it. The black is done by sticking a hot piece of metal into the wood, over and over. I tried to take a closeup but it’s too dark to see any details so I didn’t bother posting it.

Originally I’d just done the squares in the corners and left it at that, but it looked oddly coffin-like. Emily talked me into giving it another go, and this is the result.

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Carpentry!

As part of the ongoing baby-related Rearrangement Of Our Entire House, I built this shelving unit for our movies. (There wasn’t enough wall space for the shelves we had been using before, so I drew up plans, bought some planks at home depot, redrew the plans to accommodate the sizes I bought instead of what I should’ve bought, cut the pieces down to size, redrew the plans a third time to make up for the one board I cut three-quarters of an inch too short by mistake, and finally hammered it all together. Ta-dah.)

I’m pretty pleased with it — the angles are all more or less square, and the doors open and close just like they’re supposed to. And when we finally filled it with all our movies it didn’t collapse into a pile of ragged sticks and cartoon noises. So I’m declaring it a win.

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