A few things from over the holiday break:
Three of five cutting boards,
A yarn bowl for the second youngest,
Two votive candle holders for Karen, also photo of spalted holly.
The two matching charcuterie/cutting boards were for my adopted son and his girlfriend. (They live in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Boston, so I kept them on the small side. Mottled appearance as that was just after the first oiling):
And I finally got started making the fireplace surround and mantle. Made a mock-up in plywood, with a slab of walnut tossed on top for the full effect.
The finished mantle will be Ash, and the 'ebony' squares in the pattern (as done in the mock-up using a black Sharpie marker!), will be done with thinned, matte-black Rust-O-Leum paint, to allow the grain to show. The baseboard will end around the base of the uprights, and I'll carry just the shoe mould around the hearth. A lot of the Ash for this, the window trim, and the baseboards came from trees I have removed and milled: