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\nEric and Adrian went to the cousin’s birthday party. I stayed at home, because those parties tend to be too large and too full of strangers for my taste, and I just didn’t have the energy right now for a big party. (Although afterwards I found out that it had been much smaller than usual, with only people I knew. If I had known that, I’d have made a different decision.)<\/p>\n
Adrian and Ingrid joked that I’d probably spend all afternoon reading. Nope! Recently, whenever the family is away and I have unusual amounts of time on my hands, I’ve been making things instead. Either physically – I started the napkin project when they were away, for example – or virtually, by blogging more.<\/p>\n
Today I finished a bunch of bookends. I started this project a while ago, and some of the bookends in these photos I made earlier this summer. But today I finished several more, and now I’m feeling done. I could probably find a place in our bookshelves for a few more, but there’s no longer an urgent need for them. Our books are now standing up and not falling down! The basic design is just an L shape of two pieces of wood. (But I found two triangular pieces so two of the bookends ended up with a different design.) Cut two pieces of wood, sand the cut ends a bit smoother, drill holes, screw together. I guess I could have glued them but then I’d have to find some way to clamp them, and wait, which I didn’t want to do. Screwing was maybe a bit more work but gave faster results. <\/p>\n The only part that was not scrap material was the rocks. I picked a few smooth white pieces of limestone when we were in Gotland, with the bookends in mind. The golden rock is just a random rock that I found in the garden. It was not very pretty so I prettified it. Eric and Adrian went to the cousin’s birthday party. I stayed at home, because those parties tend to be too large and too full of strangers for my taste, and I just didn’t have the energy right now for a big party. (Although afterwards I found out that it had been much smaller than usual, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13163,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13160\/revisions\/13163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAll the bookends are made from scrap materials, leftover pieces of wood from the storage thing<\/a> and other pieces I found in the basement, where we have a stash of odd pieces. So they have different proportions and designs, and some pieces are slightly damaged on the bottom.<\/p>\n
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