Sandstone Wash Designs

Next up is a vintage-style French rolling pin! This turned out super cool.  It's made out of solid walnut and is huge! I can't wait to roll out bread and pizza dough and sugar cookie dough. SPECS: 

Next up: wooden spoon! This is such a cool spoon.  Somehow the lathe grabbed and pulled off part of the handle while Brian was turning it, so it ended up shorter than originally planned. But it's still cool and I'll happily use it!  Dimensions:  Type of Wood:   

Our 2nd cake stand is The Leon. The Leon is made of solid Mahogany - a super hard hardwood! The name comes - of course - from the sweet and legendary Grandpa Leon. Brian inherited this mahogany board from his dad's lumber stash (thanks, Grandpa Leon!). Evidently it was left over from some work that Leon did for George Norman (Leon built many homes for GN - including the infamous one that Brian helped build in Hawaii back in the 1980s!). George Norman also had a huge home in Holladay, Utah that Leon built for him). Anyway, nephew Brady (who bought the grandparents' home) gave Brian some wood from the family home, so Brian decided to make another cake stand with this new wood.  I'd call it a roaring success! It is super cool and very sturdy. I'm not sure how many blades were messed up by this wood - but I'm glad that Brian still has all his teeth and fingers after working with this wood! (I'm not sure I realized how dangerous woodworking was before all this wood s

Brian's first cake stand is made of poplar - which is technically a hardwood by species, but it is actually softer than pine (which is a soft wood). Weird! But it turned out super cute! However, since it really doesn't perform as a hardwood, Brian wasn't thrilled with it. I convinced him to buy it when we were at Home Depot, since we were running low on wood and - well, we were there and I thought it looked pretty! Since it's soft, it didn't handle how Brian was hoping. We probably won't use much poplar in the future. Also, when I used my food-safe wax on it, it seemed to turn a bit green-ish. I don't really love the way it took to the wax, but it is cute anyway! It's still a light brown color, but just has that slight tinge of green. You must know that I have a thing for cake stands as well as charcuterie boards! Anyway, it is __" in diameter, and ___" high. I used it to hold sweet grandbaby Margot's birthday cake for her 2nd birthday (the

The Tallulah is lucky charcuterie board #13. It is solid walnut and is gorgeous!  It's a rectangular board with rounded top corners, and squared-off bottom corners.  Measures 14" x 12" 1/2" thick. plus a 4" slim handle. Handle features a hole in it and a leather strap.  This is so beautiful. I love the Tallulah so much!  *in honor of the memorable yet fictitious Tallulah Chubb

  Charcuterie Board #12 is the Melissa. This board is made of maple and birch - solid hardwoods.  This is an oval board with a handle. The handle has a hole in it with a leather strap for hanging if desired.  SPECS:  13 1/2" x 11 1/2" plus a 4 1/4" square-ish handle.  This is a really cool board and will add a lot of warmth to the kitchen. Happy birthday, Melis!