![]() And then once, to cut the wood square from end to end on a diagonal.I measured the height of my wood stack, and then cut that length on the horizontal. Step 2: After waiting for the dry-time, I cut my wood twice: I weighed mine down with a concrete foot, and left it overnight. Step 1: Start by gluing your pieces of wood together, stacked vertically, one on top of another. Black outdoor permanent vinyl – I got mine from Expressions Vinyl.DC Fix 346-0306 Adhesive Film, Grey Marble.Wood Glue (not No More Nails – actual wood glue).Four 2″ x 4″ scraps – these are wood scraps, but you could conceivably buy one 2″ x 4″ and then cut it. ![]() Nice marble ones would be hard to come by out here in Fredericton, even considering HomeSense! But, we do have a big bin of leftover bits of wood, so I wondered if I might be able to start there. I don’t normally buy bookends, in fact I only own one other pair and they’re in // the family room // so making a set for my desk collection makes perfect sense! Now, of course, I have a far too many books and not enough shelves or way to show them off. I particularly enjoyed The Astronaut Wives Club. I love the chic noir genre, and have a penchant for military spouse memoirs. I gave myself a year where I did’t read anything more than a magazine, and then one day I picked up a book (Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn) and haven’t looked back since. Instead, I’d be done a book within a day and not remember half the plot points. Once I had left the classroom this habit of scanning a page didn’t exactly translate into peaceful afternoons reading. You know in university when you had to read hundreds of pages a week/night for classes? I learned how to speed read and essentially traverse a page diagonally. I mean sure, we have a ridiculously large collection of military history and analysis books (we could probably open a library), but it’s only been in the past year that I’ve revived a passion for reading again.
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