Rustic Project

 Possibly one of my favorite way to be creative is to see a need and then create something to fill that need. Yesterday I did just such a project. I wanted a small corner shelf to put my clock. At first when I was thinking about it I thought of it in terms of Popsicle sticks. It would of worked, but I figured if I was going to do it I might as well make it a little more classy then that. Thus I created this little shelf with no plans and a little help from my Dad in an hour or two. We split the apple tree branch with a wedge and hammer. Like they used to do to make planks. I was impressed with how well it actually works. It sits on a couple of thumb tacks. So it's not super stable but it works for what I need it to. I didn't use any power tools, all I used was a hand saw, hammer, wedge, square, and nails.

PS. If anyone is curious Rocky, my mountain goat is sitting beneath the shelf in the first picture. He's pretty cute.