sometimes I tend to be slightly not-so-patient, well, ok totally impulsive. the thing is that I’ve had those cubes in mind for ever.

so during my lunch break I cut four pieces out of a wood pole. this took quite sometime, and my thumb got lost in the battle - so sore and tender.
anyway, as soon as I got back home, I sat at my desk and started sanding, painting and glueing. yes, I did glue some scraps of beautiful vintage paper - maps, newspaper, postcards - onto the wooden blocks. and I think it looks very pretty.

here is block number eight. now I just need to brush the blocks with varnish, and we’llbe all set.

currently working on an alphabet poster as part of the playground flavours series. and the first part was quite obviously to draw the font.

lower case. solid. letters.

next step will be to illustrate those little naked letters. I have already found what I want the l and m to be.

those are the first two cubes I made for the alphabet wooden cube collection. and although they are highly imperfect, I can’t help but find them beautiful. I know the wood is cracked around one of the knots, but I decided to leave that part instead of sawing it out.

plus, the cube angles are so not 90°. but cutting 45mm thick wood with a handsaw is harder than I had imagined (and much harder than cutting through 15mm thick wood, like I did for the stamps).

basically, I just love the process; love how this very rough looking wood gets turned into neat little cubes. sawing, sanding, polishing.
the next part will consist in painting numbers onto one of their six sides. then smear on some matte varnish. because matte rocks.

ps. I initally put this vintage ten francs coin to show how big the cubes actually are: 45 x 45mm; and then fell in love with it.