Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

This is not a great photo, but it does show the pole chair and the recovering job Mother had done on the cushions. This was the last time ...

While looking for pictures to post for Kemp's 50th birthday today, I found this one.  Here is it the old pole chair that we mourn over t...

Found at the bottom of a box, don't know how I missed it.  Who can forget these and the veneer ones attached to the rosewood circles.

Forget the glamorous girl, look at the lamp and shade....Do you ever wonder where it went?  Ann will know.

We had a phone call last night from Nathan and he had a suggestion for the blog. As I thought about it, I decided the best thing to do was ...

Dad made so many beautiful marquetry pictures in his lifetime, and people constantly admire the ones that I have hanging in my home. Howev...

This was the most intriguing thing on the folks dresser, (other than the piggy bank calendar). It was filled with threads, the old pocket w...

This fine pole chair which was once relegated to hang on a spike in the "new shop," and only taken down when Judy, Ann and I happe...

This picture shows Dad and me laboring to put together the picture we made together in 1991. Dad drew the picture off of a tapestry that gr...

These pictures were taken in Dad's log cabin woodshop that he used when they lived on 93rd S. in Tumwater (Olympia) Washington. This i...

Dad (Russell M. Blood) was fascinated with pictures in one of the books I sent Mom and Dad from Germany. The challenge of doing the woodwo...

I don't know the date for the making of this cabinet, so I expect some of you in the know to tell me. The marquetry pictue inlaid on t...