The 4 things holding up my mantels on either side of fireplace look much like 1 holding up that drawer, they were difficult to make as I watched DH make them, they are layers of real wood & with a long curve, so best bet is to look for discarded mantel from old house(in some areas they are salvaged & sell for a lot) Iron pieces would work but would need 2 & wouldn't be same effect. Really looks great with the whitewashed shed/window as backdrop! Jan

Jeanne, no we don't have Gordmanns here. :o( Thanks for sharing about the canvass photo printing from Walgreens, what a great idea. Unfortunately I have a problem with wall space, LOL. In my house, its that little area between picture frames! I've got way too much stuff on the walls, big surprise huh? What I am kicking around doing is from an idea I saw on Pinterest. About going to Staples (I think) and getting the poster-size photo print for $5. I have several very large Whippet/Greyhound paintings, and it occurred to me that maybe I could put one of these jumbo prints right on the front of the glass and tuck edges into the frame. I don't think most folks would realize it wasn't framed if they didn't look close. I'd planned to try it with some Xmas pix from my files, soon as I find out what kind of picture I have to take to them to reproduce. Maybe I'll get one done for Fall and see how it goes now I've seen your lovely artwork. hugs, Karen

Thanks, Holiday-ers! I added a birds' nest today to the bottom of the vine wreath on the lath star...hubby made me the lath star. It sure is a fun time of the year...I hope to get some more decorating done & share some pics of the porch...not started out there yet...but the totes are unloaded. I guess I do decorate with 'old' goodies, uh. The lil' eleves in the set of 3 wood wall hangers are Homco ... garage sale or thrift shop finds! ;-) I love Christmas time & Winter decor ... snowmen, esp & I love those blue LED lights & the larger white ones on the tree! So pretty in here! I saw this tree shared on Facebook...don't know who to give credit to...it's a Pinterest one, I think ~~ but I'm working on this project, too ... now a deep freeze here for at least the next week....aargh ...so don't know if when I'll get back to it. ;-) Jeanne S.

Take a look at this book, and others by the same author. It's a nineteen century mechanical engineer's field day. You should be able to put together any sort of Rube Goldberg you want from ideas here. They are things like converting rotary to linear motion, continuous to intermittent motion, rotational to eccentric, etc. On my retirement list is to make a giant do-nothing machine by chaining a lot of these contraptions together. Here is a link that might be useful: Making mechanical marvels from wood