Tag: handmade
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Side Table made of Osage Orange
A few months back, a friend brought me a gift after he visited our local lumber yard. He found a cookie of a yellow/orange colored wood that he thought would be a nice piece to work with. I enjoy making tables with cookies, because you can really highlight the growth rings and you can see…
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Handmade Walnut Cookie Table
A cookie table is a table specialized to hold cookies…right? Ok yes, that too, but the name actually refers to the type of cut that was done to obtain the piece of wood. A wood cookie is a horizontal cut of the tree trunk – the view you need in order to count the growth…
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Javi’s Workshop
I have wanted a workshop in our house for a long time, but I haven’t found the right space. Our house in Louisville has a garage, but it is not in the kind of condition I’d need for a permanent wood shop. There are several holes on the walls, it is not insulated, and there…
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Nashville and Louisville shirts!
The new Chupete shirts are here! This time we brought back our first design, the Nashville edition, and came up with a new Louisville edition. Both of these places have had a big impact in our lives and we love to finally have our shirts to represent! Las nuevas poleras Chupete están aquí! Esta vez reproducimos el…
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Our local OMG
I know I know – Javi and I keep going on and on about our neighborhood and how awesome it is but really, I do think we uncovered the coolest corner of Nashville when we moved to South Inglewood. Maybe it wasn’t always Nashville’s best kept secret, but now that Riverside Village is realizing its…
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My art and Chupete shirts!
Since I was a kid I had a special interest in art. I wasn’t the “Mom! Mom! I want to go to the museum and look paintings and statues” kind of kid, more like “Mom! Mom! do you have a pen and a piece of paper I can use to draw?” kind of kid. I…
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