Thank you! I’m really out of practice; I’ve done much drawing in decades.
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Those are definitely some tricky miters!
I’d probably wait to cut the end panels until you have the sides in place to act as “guides” and use a pull saw instead of power tools. It’s EXTREMELY difficult to get the end boards to match up with the sides through glue-up if you cut everything beforehand. There’s always gaps no matter how precise your measurements and cuts are. If you cut after glue-up, you can cut to fit what’s there instead of trying to make it fit the pre-cuts without a gap.
My $0.02. Looks like a rewarding project!
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Beeetle-ful!
Really makes me appreciate the capabilities of colored pencils. In the right hands, of course 
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Thank you!
I’m finding that, like with watercolour, the quality of the supplies, including the paper is of real importance. People give up on watercolour (as I did in the past) because they can’t control the paint, when in fact, if you have proper paper (has to be 100% cotton), it’s very easy to control the paint. If you don’t have good quality pencils and paper, your drawings look streaky and pale.
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did someone say…
paper?
your friendly neighborhood Papiermeister, at your service…
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Totally. I still feel like a neophyte at watercolor, though I’ve been dabbling nigh on a decade, at least. Good paper is key, and I love cold-pressed for the way the paints act on it.
This has been some of my inspirational viewing of late:
Not sure if the filter will come through, but you can sort to just see posts that are demos, and the few I’ve watched so far are really good.
ETA: I have one of the original art toolkits that she designed and sells. Really great kit. The pocket palettes are delightful. Can customize, or order a pre-filled palette.
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I was given a $200 gift certificate to a good art supply store for my retirement. I thought long and hard about what to buy, and I settled on mostly paper, since it doesn’t dry out or spoil. A small tan Hahnemuhle sketchbook, a pad of black Fabriano 300 gsm drawing paper (I want to try some things on black paper), a pad of Saunders Waterford 300 gsm cold pressed watercolour paper, a pad of hot pressed Fluid watercolour paper, which coloured pencil artist are recommending, and new to Canada, a circular pad of Magnani cold pressed 300 cotton watercolour paper. That took me to $175.
And like pretty much everyone else, I’m afraid to draw or paint anything on all this paper!
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Those are amazing!
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those are all wonderfull papers!
as a printmaker, i use the heavier weights, like your 300gsm, that must be able to take being dampened to take etching, yet dry under pressure to the receive letterpress impressions. my choice there is Legion Bamboo 525gsm. very thick, takes both intaglio and relief prints equally well and just feels right!
also a big fan of French Paper offerings like Poptone, Speckletone and Muscletone. those all take letterpress very well. (i also know the mill owner from my professional dealings as a paper buyer for commercial printshops. that is a seriously cool paper mill)
part of my apprenticeship included papermaking that produced sheet after sheet of paper of consistent weight, thickness, and surface.
i love paper. i lived paper for over 40 years (and kinda still do)
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Thank you!
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I’m a neophyte printmaker as well, and and and … When I get more into it again, hopefully, I’ll be pestering you for advice!
I didn’t do the full leather bookbinding course on offer at the Canadian Guild, because I find it icky, for one thing, and working with fabric and paper is much more interesting to me.
I was hoping that I’d be able to pick up on all my interests; watercolour, printmaking, bookbinding, etc., but one thing I didn’t count on was having the time, but no energy or motivation, sadly.
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yeah! if i can be any help, please ask!
i also prefer not to use leather in bookbinding, opting instead for linen bookcloth. athough i do have trials into tanning fish skins to use for bookbinding. black grouper have fabulous patterns and i’m gonna eat the fish, anyway.
throw in some serious papermaking, and you are on your way to becoming a Papiermeister, yourself!
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This is me. Both the paper and the watercolors. And the nice watercolor pencils. 
Oh, and also the lack of motivation!
Your color pencil beetles are lovely. Have you ever considered mixing the pencils and the watercolors?
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Thank you! Motivation and energy are the real problems at this point.
Watercolour pencils are very intriguing, and something I may eventually try out, but I have a tendency to go hogwild with new interests and get bored quickly (motivation again), so I’ve learned to try and pull back and not get overextended.
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I don’t know if you or @KeybillyJefe have been to Japan, but every time I go I am a couple hundred dollars richer with fine papers, pens, and art supplies. 
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I’m lucky in Toronto; we have the Japanese Paper Place, and its retail store, the Paper Place, with all the chiyogami, katazome and washi paper that anyone could want. We also have a Muji store for more conventional stationary supplies.
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i have not been to Japan. i did take a series of washi labs at University of Washington. i also taught western papermaking in a multiweek lab through that same UW extension program.
the gentleman artist from Japan was a fascinating man who helped me make my own su and geta (the Japanese equivalent of mold and deckle, if you will).
washi was fun, but i never got good at it. it did not suit my use, but was informative to my understanding of paper.
while here, on this island, i do not have a dedicated art supply outlet, i do still have connections from the years in the print trade.
Takach Press, y’all. The best brayers (ink rollers) you can buy. their 2.25inch diameter, soft durometer roller is just perfection. not cheap, but magnitudes better than the Speedball craft brayers.
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Takach, you say … pretty much the only ones that I can find locally, even at the higher end art supply stores here are speedball and essdee. I haven’t tried the essdee.
Dayum! You weren’t kidding when you said they aren’t cheap!
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one of Citizen’s high end models comes with a washi dial
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kitchen remodel. pantry door used to be around the corner, sealed that door and cut a new door where the fridge used to be.
you can see where the old 3-sided island was and the new layout and floor patches
setting the end cabinets and the panels on either side and patching and leveling the floor which controls where everything else will sit
we also made the other two wall cabinets but they aren’t hung yet
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