helenvisit

Helen and me yesterday. Photo by Jeff.

Our friend Helen is visiting from Alberta. We took her to Mildred Pierce for a birthday dinner; her birthday isn't until Sunday, but she's flying home that day.

Helen's an incredibly creative sort (see her Web site for a glimpse), and has most recently been creating furniture. The following are all pieces that Helen designed herself AND built from scratch.

Told she had to name all her furniture designs, Helen named this chest of drawers "A Boy Named Sue":




This one was inspired by George Nakashima and named "I forgot more than you'll ever know":




She hand-carved this table leg:




..and won $1000 for creating the following lamp in J.P. Mitchell's "Great Two-By-Four Challenge", in which competitors were supposed to create something from a single plank of wood:




The following was made from tigerwood, and named "I Got Stripes":




And this is Helen's cat, Tamerlane the Mighty:





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