The Winter Doldrums
Posted by woodworker on January 25th, 2007
I’m embarrassed to admit that I haven’t done a thing in my shop since November, unless you count the “Christmas tree” I made.
We don’t have any kids in the house to nag us to death about getting a tree and our dogs aren’t any help in motivating us to get one. They always seem surprised that they have new toys on Christmas morning, even after the big decoration session of the night before.
In any event, it was Christmas Eve, we had no tree, so I took a couple or three 1×2s, split them and made a triangular outline of a tree. Adding a few (6) strings of red lights from Walgreens, and viola, a tree. Sort of.
The camera flash exaggerates the light color of the frame, but in normal room light it was masked by the red lights. Next year my wife wants me to re-do it, more in the shape of a tree than a triangle. I’m not looking forward to un- and re-winding 600 lights.