Dragonfly Hairclip

 I've been working on this on and off for a while now. It's a dragonfly hairclip decoration made from acrylic and aluminium.

 The acrylic is turned and polished just like a pen would be, with two parts, one for the body and one for the head.

The wings are engraved aluminium sheet, each pair of wings took about two hours to engrave and cut out, admittedly this is mainly due to the resolution of the input file.

The parts are screwed together and then screwed to the hair clip.

Bernie's House

Bernie

We found Bernie a few weeks ago while out walking. He's not very talkative, but does feel the cold a bit, so he asked me to build him a new house. He's comfortable with heights, so said he would quite like to live on the wall.

I cut some lengths of wood

and some glass for a window:

I routed a groove in the wood pieces for the window to slot into, then glued and stained them in a frame arrangement.

Once a neat floor is added, Bernie has a new house.