Cradle, sans cat

Back in March I started building a cradle and a cot, here the sides of the cradle (damn fiddly work cutting and sanding all those little bits of wood) and the base of the cot. You can also see the beginnings of a small set of shelves that will fit behind the drawers under the changing mat area.

It's still not finished - being sick with a cold for a couple of weeks, twice no less, I still haven't finished :-( The cot will probably have to wait until some undefinable "later" (when the child is too big for the cradle), but I've been working on the cradle with Polina's help over the last couple of days, I'll update this post as more gets done.

My new toy - a jigsaw. The design of the fancy bits is Polina's work - I just do structure not decoration ;-) Though cutting it all out did take about 8 hours, and the sanding is taking even longer - note to self, straight lines make life easier...

Over the last days I finished the staining of the "cradle" section with Polina's help. Last night the last coat of varnish went on, and then I put the "cradle" section together. The legs still need to be sanded, stained and varnished. Hopefully all done by the weekend.

Over the weekend, with Polina's help, I managed to get the last of the sanding done on the uprights and was able to stain and varnish them before putting the whole thing together. It's not completely square unfortunately, but it's not so far out as to be a problem. We'll need to get some new wheels too, as the current ones are plastic and they don't grip on our floors, so the whole thing just ends up dragging.

Also managed to get most of the small set of shelves (for under the changing table) done. Just need to sand and paint the actual shelf parts (tonight hopefully).