Otto B.

I remember when I was young and sexy. Now I'm just and.

Got to Greenville, SC. Gonna be a few days of very early mornings and long days. Whoever invented this working for a living thing is not my friend.

Present for my daughter. She's totally into FNAF. Now she can charge her phone at her nightstand "in style" and look at Freddy when she's using it.

Today's phone stand. I think I landed on the final dimensions. Extended the cutout bu a little for a better angle. Like it the way it feels. With 3x3.5 inches it isn't so small that it's wobbly, but also not massive. Nice office desk piece. Now a little sanding and a coat of protection.

Phone stand for my daughter. Tried them a little bigger. Need a slightly thinner board, but the size is better for burning. Perfect? No. My pieces are like me and the world around us. Full of small blemishes and imperfections. Just the way I like it.

I've worked 46 hours for the corporate world this week, so I am making this a short day. Off to the workshop. Have a great weekend, y'all!

I'll do a giveaway of one of my little phone stands. Will be traveling all next week, so I will pick a winner next week on Friday and make it over the weekend. Tell me what tiny creature you want on it and you might get a handmade little gadget for free.

Polls don't mean a thing. Only voting does. Do your part! Democray is not a spectator sport.

Working with wood is therapeutic for me. My day job is high stress, fast moving, and emergency rich. Woodworking slows everything down. Every cut matters. Slow, deliberate, and thoughtfull is the pace. Without it, I might have gone nuts already.

Madrid a little phone stand from some scrap wood I had. Learned to never use pine for anything related to woodburning again. Kid still liked it, though. Overall win.

Project "gift for a teenager" is coming along nicely. I will need better tools at some point as I make more stuff. Picture of finished piece likely tomorrow or Friday.

Not even 9 yet and it's already one of those days...

Woodburning. Today seems like a good day for a woodburning project. Yeah.

Going to start working on my next piece. Will be a gift for a teenager who is totally into 5 nights at Freddy's. Should also be practical. And cool, of course. Wish me luck.

I think today was the first time I cast a straight party ticket ballot.

Georgia Blue was a fun piece to make. May life imitate art this November.

I think I'll start this weekend a couple of hours early. Georgia Blue is waiting for my attention, and I want to finish this piece this weekend.

When the last jobs report came out, I said I will wait for the next one and the downward revisions. And here we are.

Got asked a few times if I'd sell my carvings. Not yet. I just started doing this and there's a lot more I need to learn before I feel I can take money for the stuff I make. One day, maybe.

I'd rather be carving... Anywho, off to work. Have a pleasant start of the week, y'all!

Woke up to my next project taking shape in my head. I love when that happens.

I made this piece as a reminder to myself. Especially in times when those words seem so distant, it is important to remember them, live by them, embody them.