Making things in general

My girlfriend made this wallet. I have no pictures of the making process because I wasn’t planning on blogging about it. But it turned out so nice that I just had to show it. Plus, I made the leather strap and put on the buttons, so I can brag a little too.

A lot of things have happened since my last blog post. I earned my Bachelor’s degree, went to Rome for a week and was admitted to the Master’s programme I applied for, to name a few. This is the reason I have not posted anything for a while. I have made some stuff that I […]

These are some kitchen utensils – two spatula’s and a shallow spoon – I carved last week. The wood came from a big oak log that I’m slowly but surely turning into a hewing bench. More on that soon. I made a little video of how I carve a spatula:

If you follow my blog, you know I’ve picked up leatherworking recently. I like it because it’s a lot faster than most woodworking I do and requires fewer tools and little workspace. I’ve worked with fabric a couple of times too, and thought it would be fun to combine the two in a project. It […]

I’ve been working leather for a while now, mainly making sheathes and cases for my tools. They were intended to be functional, not pretty. Recently I’ve been trying to make some prettier things out of leather too, such as a case for my Nexus 7. To make clean lines and sow neatly and cleanly, I […]

My girlfriend recycled an old Ikea shelving unit (I think it was a Gorm or something) into this planter. We want to grow peas and beans against this wall because it gets a lot of sun. To protect the wood and make it look a little prettier, we wanted to paint it. So we tried […]

When I was in high school, in 2003, I started a band. The band, called Colligan, started out as a school band but soon grew to be much more, for us in the band at least. We did a lot of cool things together, such as play at a festival in Tirana, Albania, and perform […]