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This week’s project was a weed pot. Before you jump to all kinds of conclusions about me, you should know that a weed pot is a small vase into which you cannot put water. So you can’t put flowers in is, but you can put in a weed. Get it? They generally look like this:

For this we need to put the wood into a chuck, but the wood we had was too big to fit into the chuck so we learned how to make a tenon.

That was where my success ended, and my frustration began. I was not getting the lesson this weeks and the instructors did a lot of the turning for me. I’m not sure what my problem was. I ended up with a really cute, Jonathan Adler-inspired weed pot, but I’m not going to post a photo of it, because I don’t feel like it is my work. I didn’t even keep it.

I hope next week is better for me, because man, was I discouraged this week :/

C.C. Boyce grew up in Wisconsin and was always making stuff into othe rstuff. She moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and is still in LA working as a voice over talent for commercials. In 2012, C.C. rekindled her love of building stuff and started the process of getting her Fine Woodworking and Cabinet Maker A.S. She just launched a project that combines her 2 great loves into one project: a webseries called, “Would You Woodwork?” Now if she could just incorporate the Green Bay Packers and cats into this somehow, she could fulfill all her life’s dreams. Check out more from C.C. at her blog.

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