Making Spaghetti for lunch for the week. I have an electric lunch box that heats up my food while I’m working. This allows me a hot meal without eating fast food since I work out of my truck a lot.
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I’m making a birthday present for a friend of mine. It’s a mushroom carved from wood. I already carved and sanded it and it’s already looking really nice.
I’m now looking to colour it and an doing some experiments on some wood scraps to use tea as a wood stain. So far I’ve tested black tea and after about 10 coats, it has a nice, earthy brown colour. Next I’m going to test out some rooibos tea for some red colouring.
I have a small turkish coffee pot that I used to make coffee with and it was really useful for making the wood stain. I put two tea bags in and boiled the water for about 30 minutes with the tea bags left inside.
I then removed the tea bags and boiled down the water. The result was a deep, milky looking tea concentrate which smelled really nice.
Can’t wait to finish it and I’m excited to give it to her for her birthday :)