Category: Christmas
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COVID Christmas Ornaments
Inspired by a picture my wife sent me of almost this exact same thing, I made some COVID-themed Christmas ornaments for the family members I won’t be seeing at Christmas this year. You can make your own too, if you have an X-Carve; the Easel project is right here.
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Secret Santa 2018: Japan in Maple and Walnut
For my workplace Secret Santa gift exchange this Christmas (you know, the one that very recently took place), my recipient was a Japanese citizen who likes to hike, so I made him a 3-D topographic map of Japan out of maple and walnut. The steps to build it were pretty simple, so I won’t caption…
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An Automattic Bowl
For part of the gift I sent through the Secret Santa exchange at work this year, I decided to make a bowl with the Automattic company logo inlaid in the bottom. I’ve never made a bowl or done an inlay before, so this was definitely a wise decision that would not backfire. I started by…
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Wooden’t You Like to See These Christmas Gifts I Made?
Here are a couple more Christmas gifts that came out of the workshop. The first one is a wall-hanging for my die-hard Vikings fan mother-in-law. I cut it on the X-Carve and hand-painted it. This one is for my parents to hang up pictures of the grandkids: If you’re wondering whether making a sign like…
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I Made Some Animal Stools
I made four little animal chairs for young family members this Christmas: The process for each chair was basically the same: cut out sides on the X-Carve, cut the seat and seatback on the table saw, and screw them together. I hand-painted the elephant and unicorn, and I finished the whale and otter with Danish…
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Making Name Puzzles with the X-Carve
For a couple of the younger kids on my Christmas gift list this year, I made name puzzles with my X-Carve. The puzzles are made out of Baltic birch plywood; the letters are 1/4″ thick and the base is 1/2″ thick. I cut out the letters of the name (and some additional puzzle pieces) with…
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Improve your Christmas gift opening with Randomizer
My wife and I wanted to find a way to do an orderly one-at-a-time Christmas gift opening this year rather than the usual everyone-at-once free-for-all, but while also still keeping all the kids mentally present, rather than having them zone out until it was their turn. We decided to randomly choose the next person to…
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Today’s Functional Print, CHRISTMAS EDITION: Christmas Tree Feet
In today’s appropriately festive 3D printer news, I’ve printed replacement feet for some ornamental Christmas trees: These feet took a while to design — the organic shapes and border ridges were new concepts to me in OpenSCAD, but I was able to settle on a design that could be printed without supports. Spot the original,…
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Today’s Functional Print: Christmas Light Clips
In today’s “’tis the season to be printing” news, I’ve printed replacement Christmas light clips. They took about half an hour to model in OpenSCAD, and each one can print in only three minutes. Their exact design appears to be unique to the decoration that they came from, but these very similar clips sell for…
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2010 Calendar – January
“January: Time to take your lights down before they take you down.”
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Christmas cookies
We finished baking our Christmas cookies last night, and two new ones that we tried turned out especially well: Snowballs (as seen on Ooh you tasty little things…), and marshmallow fudge. Snowballs: White-chocolate coated buttercreams Marshmallow fudge