Make, Making, Made: Best Laid Plans...

Well I had the best of intentions when I started years ago, but we all know how that old saying about intentions goes. Just because I have not written daily (yes I think I planned on blogging daily originally) it doesn't mean I have stopped making. In the next few posts or however many it takes, I will try to bring everyone up to present day on my maker projects. For this post, so as not to strain myself I will simply give a list off the top of my head of the things I have made/ am making since my last post. For today's post I want even begin to tackle the things I still want to make. So here in no particular order are some of my projects...

Many, many pages of sketches & Illustrator files for a children's preschool workbook featuring trains as a theme.
A still unfinished recumbent bike / trike built from old bike parts.
An awesome, waitng to be stained 8' high x 4' wide bookcase (now cut down to 7' high to fit in our current house)
Two Tiki head book ends(need more carving) hand carved from 3" thick pine stock (scraps from pergola projects at work)
A book shelf built out of leftover materials (awaiting trim & paint) whose shelves are only high enough and deep enough to hold my collection of 50's era Popular Science and Popular Mechanix magazines.
A 14" long hand carved wooden model of a DC-3 (needs a little more carving and sanding).
A completely dismantled 1970 Honda SL-70 I got when I was 10, awaiting engine rebuild, re-painting and assembly.
A young adult novel tentatively titled "Adventurer's Inc." modelled after "The Mad Scientists' Club" books, my favorite books of all time. (outline, character development, chapter ideas ).
Replaced a blown head gasket on my 1991 Toyota Paseo ( a project worthy of several pages of blogging in itself).
A rhyming children's picture book, 99% written, ideas developed and sketched for most pages. This project has been hanging around for about 10 years.

O.k. Im starting to get a little overwhelmed so I'll stop here. perhaps I can even through in a picture or two provided I don't have to re-size them or do anything to them.