Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Dec 25

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope this blog post finds you well.

As promised here are some pictures of this year’s decorations.

Missy loves Christmas and does a fantastic job of getting the house ready for our families to come by, feast on all kinds of goodies, open gifts, and enjoy Christmas as much as we do.

As always, click on the images for a larger view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and enjoyed a small glimpse into our holiday home.

 

—– Brandon

It’s almost Christmas…

It’s almost Christmas…

Dec 23

It’s our favorite time of year …. CHRISTMAS!

Missy has been busy baking cookies today. Peanut Butter Blossoms, Sugar Cookies, Chocolate Chip, and my favorite … Molasses Cookies (click here for the recipe – Molasses Cookies Recipe ). The house just smells like Christmas.

The house is all decorated and we’re looking forward to having our families here to share the holiday with us. I can almost smell the ham cooking Wait… nope… that’s still fresh baked cookies I smell.  Man, I love Christmas!

I took the week off from my day job. Fixed the very noisy dishwasher, got some nutcracker repairs done, and made another snail nutcracker that will be for sale after the holidays.

Stay tuned for pictures of the house all decorated for the holiday (you may even see a nutcracker or two … or three…).

Also noteworthy (or should I say “nutworthy”… groan, yeah I went there), a Spokane Washington news channel did a great short segment on the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum. If you look close, directly to the left of the nutcracker Arlene explains is dated around 1500, you’ll see the piece I repaired for her a while ago ( click here – 1500’s Nutcracker Repair ). It’s great to see that piece being proudly displayed.

Click here to see the segment ( KHQ Nutcracker Museum/ Arlene Interview ). Be patient,  you’ll have to watch a commercial or two before the segment starts. It’s definitely worth the wait though.

Enjoy!

 

—– Brandon

Signs

Signs

Nov 25

I got to meet another artist recently. He and I started talking about signs, gold leafing, airbrushing, pinstriping, etc.. That got me thinking back to some of the one-of-a-kind signs I’ve done over the years. Most of them got featured on my old site so I figured it’d be nice to get them posted on my new one. I’m probably missing a couple, but here is a good collection of the sign work I’ve done. Click on the images for a larger view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Oct 31

It’s Halloween! One of our favorite holidays  We went to Monroe’s Orchard & Farm Market to get pumpkins to carve and apples for Missy to make a pie. Missy, Dane, and I spent last night carving cool pumpkins. Take a look…

 

 

 

Make Magazine

Make Magazine

Oct 23

Make Magazine picked up the Changing Portrait project I did for Halloween this year. Check out the project write up I did for them here:

http://makezine.com/projects/disney-inspired-changing-portrait-using-a-raspberry-pi/

Anri Monk

Anri Monk

Aug 05

Here is a great example of an Anri Monk. This guy needed some repair work done on the lever and had a couple chips that needed repaired. He has great patina and everything was repaired to match perfectly so the integrity of the piece remained intact.