An extra large picture for and extra important post!

There are two main reasons as to why I want to raise money for charity...

1) I am completely in awe of Martha Payne and her blog "NeverSeconds". At a young age she raised a lot of money for a lot of people in Malawi! She a better Martha than I am for sure!

2) I would love to honour a friend who passed away because of cancer so I want to raise money for cancer victims!

I also bet you will be wondering why a strange owl is in the picture. This is because Posy (named by one of the viewers on this blog later this year) will be with me at each fundraising thing I do! so might appear in quite a few pictures on this blog.

Hopefully by around this time next year if I could raise lets say... £1,000. So lets see how it goes!

It is very Important people give me some advice as to how I go round doing this so please comment!

box !

Wood is a wonderful medium, I've used copper once in another resistant materials project however wood has something about it that I prefer much more than metal.

As you can tell this small box is made using veneer but if I were to be more precise I made it out of MDF with a veneer in-lay. To make it I used all kinds of tools: coping saw, tenon saw, files, wax, scalpels, band saws ETC (you get the point).

How I deigned and made the ducks on the lid....

I copied off a cartoon painting of ducks from when I was younger I then scanned it into the computer and traced around it on a design program called 2D design which was then sent to the laser scanner and the design (the ducks) were cut out three times each in a different shades/types of veneer.

To finish of the box I waxed and polished it!

My hard work was paid off when my teacher gave me an A* for it! Even though there may be a few little chips here and there on the veneer.