Bookends

More Christmas presents, these were for my nephews.  I just used 3/4" plywood (left over scraps from another project), cut them down to size and used wood glue and a nail gun to put them together.  Afterwards, I stained them in my favorite color from Minwax called Dark Walnut. The dinosaurs I got from dollar tree, you really can't beat $1 for a dinosaur.  I used a band saw to cut the dino's in half then  I used super glue and hot glue to attach the dinosaurs (I put a dab of hot glue at 12 and 6 o'clock on the inside of the dinosaur and filled the rest in with super glue)  I kept these sitting for about a day before wrapping them up (just make sure you press down pretty hard on the dinosaur while the hot glue cools down to make sure it stays).

Xmas Project - the Hall Tree

I decided to make a hall tree for a Christmas present this year.  There were plans that I used on Pinterest, which you can find at http://ana-white.com/2012/08/plans/fancy-hall-tree.  I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.

 Sanding and staining took forever of course.

 Finished product, I got the coat hooks from Hobby Lobby.  I didn't even know they sold those there and they are cast iron.  They completed the look!

 And of course my partner in crime in the workshop, my dad!