We are by no means masters of anything, even though we have some skilled craftsmen in our extended family, but always willing to try and make stuff.
Mom wanted to buy or find a mail box for the kindergarten class at her school a few years ago. She was not able to find one she liked that was the right size or price so she found plans for a wooden mail box online.
One evening we bought lumber and went to town. A few days later we had it made, after a couple coats of enamel red paint it was ready for little kids to send letters in their class.
The next thing we built a few year after was a rolling book shelf/caddie for mom's school library. She wanted something mobile and low to the ground for little kids to be able to access the books easily.
A few drawings and plans were made and we settled on this design with side boxes and the top fully open with dividers to keep boxes organized.
The family got to work and a few weeks of intermittent work later we had a wheelie-book-cart-doodad. This cart has spent it's life in a couple school now and it currently in the garage in preparation for it's new home next year as mom moves to a new school.
The last family build was a deck chair for the dirtiest of the family.
We had recently purchased new deck furniture so we can all sit outside and enjoy the weather. The kids pointed out that Dewey, the dog, didn't have a chair of his own.
So we searched plans for a deck chair and shrunk the dimensions by a third.
What came out was a tiny deck chair that fits the pup quite nicely.
I would be lying to say he was sitting in it nicely, he was sitting nice because mom had a piece of chicken behind me.
We finished it off with a dark stain to match our existing furniture. Truth be told I think Dewey sits in it once for every ten times the kids sit in it. Oy!
