Shed Building Plans: 2014

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GoodBye 2014 Hello 2015!!

Said Goodbye to 2014 and Hello to 2015 in best possible way with cosy clothes, a 300m2 "cottage" in the forest with Takeaway, champagne, hours by the lakes fishing for salmons. Family Berg together with Bendsen couldnt ask for a better New Year celebration.
Im hoping to fill the new year with lots more of exactly that! Quality time with people in surroundings that give energy!!
I can strongly recommend Bondemölla as a recreation place for your soul and to fill you freezer with salmon!

GoodBye 2014 Hello 2015!!

2014 In Review The Furniture Files

I really pushed the envelope in 2014. I did more renovations, spent more than I intended to and actually hired a contractor to do one of the major projects because I was so swamped with everything I had taken on!

2014 was an excellent year for me. I found some great deals, actually found some time for myself to do absolutely nothing, got a lot done on the house and yard and began a yoga practice (something I've been planning to do for years...)

I made over so much furniture this year that I'm calling this post the Furniture Files!

The year began with a bang when I found a hutch for $100. My makeover made me so happy, I made over the entire dining room!

2014 In Review The Furniture Files

First Friday At The Banana Factory May 2 2014

Im expecting a great crowd tonight for First Friday at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA

where I am an artist in residence! From 6pm to 9pm all of the resident artists studios

will be open to the public and there is lots to see and do. My studio is on the first floor,

studio 102, so if you get a chance to come out, be sure to stop in and say hello!

Its going to be a beautiful night!

Part of my studio inside the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA. I am in studio 102, first floor.

One of my studio walls, all filled with new jewelry available for purchase.

On display tonight in my studio at the Banana Factory

I was featured artist of the month last month for April! Here I am hanging my exhibit. April

is now over, but you can still see my exhibit, which I moved from the hall into my studio.

Featured artist exhibit night and book signing

Inside my studio

I will also have some copies of my new jewelry instruction book, BoHo Chic Jewelry available

for purchase in my studio. If you cant make it to the studio, you can purchase a copy here.

The Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA (directions)

What do you think?

Hope to see you there!

First Friday At The Banana Factory May 2 2014

Farmhouse Cottage Tour 2014

Welcome to Ashcroft Cottage! My house has changed so much in 2014. I've finally found my style and embraced country cottage/farmhouse in a big way. I even named my house (I have an enormous 100 year old green ash in my front yard). Come on in and have a look.

Farmhouse Cottage Tour 2014

ARRL Field Day 2014

W8MDE homebrew 10 meter rotatable dipole

Some notes from Field Day 2014

10 meters (The band I chose to operate this year) was in the dumps -Nearly a complete lack of propagation of 28 MHz signals. Thats the nature of the beast with the fluctuating solar radio flux we have been experiencing as of late. I only made one contact all day Saturday and that was a potato farmer out in Oklahoma who was inside playing with radios while he waited for rain to stop so he could return to his harvesting.

Our luck changed by Sunday morning when the band suddenly opened and we made half a dozen CW (Morse Code) contacts with stations in Ohio, Virginia, Tennessee and Florida.

When I first tested my 10 meter rotatable dipole on the air I made contact with New Zealand over 8000 miles from my location in Ohio. Because that was only three weeks ago I figured I would be flooded with CQ FD callers during the event on 10 meters but unfortunately it wasnt meant to be.

I spent some time tuning around the other bands and listened to my club mates making contacts on voice SSB or copied the digital back and forths on the laptop. With our seven stations and antennas confined to a 1000 ft. diameter area they were easy to spot. QSO counts were down for all the club members so I guess diminished propagation conditions affected all the bands to some degree.

Over all the weekend was a blast. Good food, friends and even the chance to explain and put on display our radio operating for a few of the local public that ventured out on Saturday.

Building an antenna specifically for the event is something that I have come to enjoy almost as much as Field Day itself. Using my own workshop and materials easily sourced locally I find it very rewarding to craft the all important component of a radio circuit; the device that transforms a current in wire into a radiated electromagnetic wave.

Im considering 80 meters for next year.

ARRL Field Day 2014