Eagle Scout project

One of the Young Men in our ward was trying to get his Eagle Scout.  His project was to make blankets for a hospital to give to youth who come to the hospital.  He collected money from lots of different sources, bought the fabric, then the YM/YW in our ward cut and tied the fabric.

We did about 65 adult sized blankets and had fun doing it.

Just had to do a dry fit!!

This is the base of the lockers.  This is only half of the base, there is another section, just like this one.  It is made out of 2x4's.  By using a base like this, we can level the base with the concrete floor in the garage and get it all level, then all the cases above that should be level and square.  The base cabinets will extend out over the base by 3" to create a "toe kick" area so you can stand in front of the lockers and not stub your toes.

The base will be covered with 3/4" plywood screwed to the base.  Also going to cover the base with heavy duty plastic to create a vapor barrier so if there is any moisture in the garage or on the floor, the water does not wick up to the cabinets.

I only did two lockers in the dry fit, just to see how everything would go together.  There will be a total of seven lockers.  These are the two base cabinets.  They are 26 inches deep.  The lockers are 12 inches deep, so the remaining 14 inches creates a bench so the kids can sit on to put shoes on and off, stand on to hand up coats in the locker, etc.  Still working on the material for the bench.  I bought maple and thought about dying it black for a contrast.  The maple has been hard to dye, so looking at other alternatives like granite or a solid surface. The black stain/dye has only turned the maple a light gray.  May need to go back to alder for the bench surface and stain all the same color.

This is a 2" base for the lockers to sit on.  I needed to do this to create space between the bottom of the lockers and the top of the wide cases for the face frame and for the doors on the lockers to close.

The lockers are 62 1/2 inches tall, 21 1/2 inches wide and 12 inches deep.  All of the lockers are made out of alder MDF plywood.  The face frame and doors will be alder.  

This has the top cases on top of the lockers.  The locker and top case will have doors.  The bottom case will not have doors.  The top case will be really high, but it will be used to store off season items.

The lockers will have crown moulding on top.  As it sits right  now, the assembly is 98.5 inches tall.  The crown moulding will be about 5" tall.  The lockers need to fit under 104" because of a heat duct or return that will run across the top of the lockers.

After much struggling with trying to cut the face frame material, keep it as long as I could to cut down on piecing the face frame, I finally contacted a mill to cut the face frame material for me.  That was a great idea.  They should have it ready for me today.  Woo hoo!

Need to get the face frames sanded and stained so they are ready for install.

Gathering all my materials and tools to have ready so we can make the delivery and install.  Always a fun day!!

YM/YW fix dinner for the Sister missionaries

Last week for a joint activity with the Priests and Laurels, we fixed dinner for the Sister missionaries at our house.

We moved some furniture around and were able to seat 17 youth at the table.  They could visit with the missionaries and ask questions and had a great opportunity to pick their brains and learn from their experiences.

We had 22 youth, six leaders and the Bishop for spaghetti dinner.  It was an excellent activity!!

What are pictures without a photobomb by Matt Boyer!!

Mike and Heidi Funk

On Saturday, January 31st went to the wedding of my nephew Mike.   His wedding announcement is above.  They were married at the Alpine Art Museum.  All of their kids were bridesmaids and groomsmen.  Six kids between them.

Yea!! Mike and Heidi!!!

 Love this pic of my sister Pat.  She is holding Bree, one of Lisa's daughters.

 This is probably a better picture of her, but it was so fun to see her laugh and have a good time!!

Bree found a metal status of some ducks at the art gallery and climb on board several times for a ride.  It was pretty cute.

Lisa's lockers

We have two coats of stain on all the cases for Lisa's lockers.   These are the locker cases.  62 inches tall, 21.5 inches wide and 12 inches deep. Used a gel stain, mahogany color.  The gel is really nice to use and very forgiving.  If I ended up with some blotches from not rubbing it out good enough, just had to add more stain, that seems to activate the other stuff and then wipe it out.

Last night I was able to get most of the bottom frame done.  Because the lockers will be 151+ inches long once all seven are put together, I am doing the base in two parts.  Once I get everything to Idaho, I will put the two base parts together.

Need to get the end panels cut and stained, then the face frame boards cut, sized and stain and crown moulding stained and ready to go.  We are getting pretty close for the big install.  It will be so fun to see how they all look once put together.