A busy week

Today I put the finishing touches on gifts for my nieces. Over the last couple of weeks I put together a sign and a set of bookends for them to share, as they both have birthdays this month. Yesterday I put a final coat of glow in the dark paint on the fairies and today I lacquered them and put a ribbon the sign to hang it with.

I also finished some easter eggs that I have been making the last few days. I sanded them and glued magnets on the backs. Here they are on my fridge:

I am going to give two of them to my neighbors that are having Tom and I over for Easter dinner tomorrow. 

Lately I have been feeling a weird pain and some swelling in my left shoulder, left arm, and left side of my neck. I think my barstool is too high for my saw. I can either lower it or lower my saw and get a chair, which I think I will do, rather than permanently modify the stool.

 Today I bought some MDF and had Tom cut it down to manageable pieces to experiment with. Not sure what I am going to do with it yet. Also had some copies made of the patterns that come in the scroll saw magazine. They are on large sheets of paper and double-sided so it is hard to copy them at home. It cost just under $4 to get one sheet copied; I had 8 copies done today so that was over $30, ouch, but still worth it. Saved me a lot of time and effort trying to figure out how to cut the pages down and copy them without distortion and then tape them back together. Still have lots of magazines to copy the insets of, but I will save that for later.