Wow what an interesting bunch of readers I have! You came up with some fantastic ideas for what you would make out of wood if you had the opportunity. I was impressed that only one of you said “a fire”!!!
The winner of the Ely Series Wood Watch by JORD, selected at random from all the valid entries, is Florence Cross. Congratulations Florence I hope you like your new watch as much as I like mine.
Thank you to everyone who entered. I hope you’ll continue to read Splodz Blogz now you’ve found me!
I haven’t had a competition here on Splodz Blogz for a little while, and this is a rather nice one for you. JORD have given me one of their Ely Series Wood Watches to giveaway to one of my blog readers. The winner can choose the colour from the range over on the JORD website – currently Natural Green (like mine), Black, Cherry or Maple.
If you would like to win one of these really beautiful and one-of-a-kind time pieces you need to comment on this blog post (use the box below) with your answer to this tenuously linked question…
If you could make anything out of wood what would it be and why?
I would love to be able to make something really big and useful, like a massive dining table with chairs or a Welsh dresser. Maybe I’ll just stick to whittling sticks into slightly smaller sticks!
You have until 12noon on Sunday 20 July (UK time) to enter. Good luck!
The Rules
- This competition is open to UK residents only.
- You must be aged 18 years old or over at the time of entry.
- The competition closes at 12noon on Sunday 20 July 2014 (UK time).
- Entry is by making a relevant comment on this post answering the given question.
- Entrants must include a valid email address or twitter name in the box provided. This is so I can contact you if you win.
- You can only enter once. If you post more than one comment only your first will count as entry into the competition.
- Members of my immediate family cannot enter (sorry!).
- The winner will be picked at random from all eligible entries and be announced on Splodz Blogz soon after the closing date.
- The prize is an Ely Series Wood Watch by JORD. The winner can choose the colour.
- The winner must respond to their email from Splodz Blogz within two days.
- Your details will only be used for the purpose of this competition.
- The prize will be sent directly by JORD.
- You don’t get any extra entries for tweeting or posting about this competition anywhere, but I don’t mind if you do (go on… you know you want to!).
- Oh… and my decision is final (I like saying that!).
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Corrine Shimmon
I’d love to have a wooden sax. It’s have to be a small one for the weight, but I imagine it would feel gorgeous and have a fantastic, smooth, mellow tone…
Splodz
Yes I bet it would sound really lovely.
Tracey Peach
I would make a wooden bunch of flowers. I would use different woods so each individual flower would look different with the grains & colours of wood showing
Wendy K
A steering wheel and gear lever (for the car I haven’t got). I love driving and I love the feel of wood under my hands. Also wood in a car speaks of old fashioned opulence. A retro fantasy 🙂
Splodz
A wooden steering wheel would feel lovely.
✿♥❀ Ali ❀♥✿ (@porkpackerpete)
I would have a full size wooden horse made for my garden so I could admire it everyday it would look awesome
Dan Rous
I’d love to build a wooden ship in a bottle. Always fancied making one but never have!
MunchKim
The first thing I thought of as an answer was a chess set, I love to play and having a set I’ve designed and made myself would be amazing but that was quickly followed up by a better idea. I think I’d make myself a Springfield complete with all the characters and add to it each time something new comes up in the game. Just think, it’d be a great excuse to buy real doughnuts and pay myself with them each time I managed to build one of the premium items 😀
Splodz
Ha ha you really are addicted to that Simpsons game!!
MunchKim
I know, and I’m really trying to convince myself that it’s just for an excuse to have doughnuts but it’s not, I’m a TSTO addict (thank you 😀 )
Jane Willis (@janesgrapevine)
I’d love to make a massive draft storage cabinet with drawers for papers, racks for inkpads and stamps, a shelf for my cutting/embossing machine and boxes for all my bits and pieces, with a flap – down work surface for me to sit at to everything would be to hand.
Elaine K
Ooh that’s a very interesting question! I think I’d opt for something quite intricate like a wooden family tree (despite knowing I wouldn’t have the skill or patience!). Each branch would represent a member of my family as far back as I can trace with their name etc carefully inscribed & of course I’d leave spare branches for future generations. A great keepsake to pass down & all hand made. I dread to imagine how big it would actually be by the time I’d finished lol
Splodz
What an absolutely fantastic idea. This would be quite a keepsake.
Margaret guest
I would make a picture frame and put a picture of my family in it and the knots and colours in the wood will show how beautiful wood and family are even with age the more beauty it has
John Millington
I hate to be simplistic but a nice custom table. Our current one is massive and doesn’t fit properly. A nice custom shaped table with some personal features would be lovely.
Andrea Miles
I think it would have to be a hammock
lauren pilkington
i would make a crafting shed. somewhere i could escape from the madness of the house to do what i love 🙂
Doug
I would like a bicycle made of wood because it would not rust is easily repairable and because wood just feels ‘alive’ to me and has a ‘springiness’ that would absorb road vibrations.
Splodz
I bet a wooden bicycle would also look really beautiful.
Fiona K
a new coffee table
S Edwards
A wood cabin i have always wanted to be able to live in one 🙂
Andy Thompson
A tree house for nieces and nephews
Zoe G
I would love to be able to build myself a Dresser, I have started collecting decorative china and want to display it
Jessica Wilde
I’d love to be able to make my own plant pots… 🙂
Sally Lloyd-Jones
My ideal would be an all in one, country style, coat and wellington rack with a shoe box seat … decorated with a carving of poppies and corn marigolds!
sue hodges
love to be able to build one of those seats that goes round a tree – we have a big old apple tree that would be ideal – then could sit under the tree in the shade
C Kennedy
I’d love to be able to make some wooden serving bowls for BBQs
marcus bailey
my wife
Eleanor Barley
I would build a wooden ps4. It sounds crazy, but it wouldn’t be entirely of wood, just the cover. Just think it would look really classy haha
jessiecat33
A wooden computer with the hope that it would last forever
laura youlden
Rather a simple idea, but I have always wanted to make a lovely crafted jewellery box
Val Swift
A tree house for the kids
Joanne Mapp
My partner is a carpenter joiner, so I have a lot of bespoke wood items in my house. I am very lucky. However, the one thing he cannot make is a wooden Blu-ray player. It sits on a shelf and looks so ugly .
Splodz
Oh lovely that’s fabulous, home made furniture is something very special.
Marina Wilson
I’d like to make my own solid wood photo and mirror frames as I love the old fashioned ones
Jack C
A table – let’s just say my last attempt wasn’t very successful, and I’d like to have another shot at it.
Splodz
Oh no a disaster?! What are you waiting for… try again this weekend!
Samantha Lea
A wooden hut that I can turn into a gym in my garden!
Caroline H
I’d love to build a wooden house. If I was doing it I know I’d have achieved my dream of moving out of the city to a lovely big luxury log house (preferably set in a wood!).
adele leek
I think I would LOVE ALL my three bins on wheels in the garden to be wooden instead of plastic.
OK a bit heavier, but they would look better next to our fencing and a lot more Eco friendly.
janet dring
Flowers in different woods would look lovely
RACHEL SMITH
a wooden house for the kiddies
Donna
I would love to be able to make my own design of fire surround, as I know what I want but just can’t seem to find it x
Emily Clark
Headphones. I think they’d look really cool!
Liz Simpson
I’d make an iron out of wood – I use it so often it would be nice to have a goodlooking comfortable wooden one that would mellow with age.
Lorraine Tinsley
A new dining table would be lovely
Jen Rogers
A wooden man – he would not answer back – like his Dad a chip of the old block – sorry babe JOKE JOKE!
Hong
Wooden sunglasses to match the wooden watch. Think they would look fab together!
Sarah Rachel Wray
I’ve always wanted a garden swinging bench – If I was really clever with woodworking, I’d carve little pictures representing all the members of the family so it would be really personalised and special!
David Reeves
I would like a car with all wooden bodywork – memories of my lovely ash-furnished Morris Minor estate!
philip
pinocchio
Heather Haigh
A house – I think a big wooden house would be lovely.
Brigitte Leprince
A handbag with wooden linked strap because someone would have a hard job cutting it or stealing it from you!
Emily Linsell
A sumerhouse!
Andrew Petrie
A spoon. I would mount it and give it to the England football team.
Luke Tutt
Hmmm something unconventional like a tablet or smartphone.
Lisa Everaert
I`d make a car out of wood, less impact on the enviroment as a whole not to mention stylish! xx
Paul Wilson
The cast of TOWIE – they’d be more life-like and wouldn’t need so much spray-on tan.
Tina Matthews
A Computer case I think that would look awesome!!!
Thomas gallagher
A modern version of the old wooden television, but obviously a lot sleeker and slimmer than the old ones, i just think it would look really cool.
katie w
i’ve always wanted a beautifully crafted welsh dresser with carvings of historical symbols to link in with my hobby which is archaeology.
Kimmie Alex
I’d make a wooden car! It’d give the term wax and polish a while new meaning and it’d be amazingingly unique although of course it’d have to run in water 😀
Victoria
I’d love to make a bicycle out of wood because i think it would look really awesome 😀
James Cafferkey
The watch looks amazing!
Helen Belton
My house, wooden houses look amazing!
Rachel Williams
I would like to make a trumpet out of wood, for the fun of finding out how it would sound and to make a crossbreed of woodwind and brass instruments!
Naomi Harrison
I would love to see a wooden iphone.
Michelle Ptak
I would be a wooden person as it would be like when I used to watch the Wooden Tops!!!
David Vessey
I’d make a wooden laptop, though there might be overheating problems!
Gemma
I’d make a big wooden T-Rex – RAWR!!! (I am aware this really has no practical use, I just love dinosaurs, I mean, how awesome would that be!)
James Jinks
I would make a top of the range tree house so I could be at one with nature
John W
I wood (sorry!) make a fancy wooden chess set so that I could fool people into thinking I’m classy
maureen findley
i would love to carve a figurine using a single piece of wood
Rena Plumridge
Wooden ipad I love my ipad
Karen Slight
Think it would have to be a tree house, always wanted one when I was a child and would love one now to share with the grandkids
Emma Jeffery
A smart wooden satchel or briefcase would be really cool, certainly would be a talking point!
Matt Atherton
A house, I think houses made with the right wood look spectuacular.
Emma Nixon
I would love to make a piece of furniture, a sideboard. But my limits are a wonky birdbox!
Laura H
Wooden tv casing, sleek and modern, very cool…..
Lisa Evans
A lovely new wooden toy box for the kiddies!!!
IZZY
a wooden clock x
Adam Chaloner
A mug. With TEA carved into it. Probably mahogany or walnut.
Robin Aitchison
A bespoke toy chest for my daughter.
Jacki Hamer
I’d make a tree… a funky looking one that I could hang pretty decorations on at Christmas as I don’t like traditional Christmas trees!
Jo Carroll
An outdoor bath carved out of solid oak and filled every day by a fresh spring water spring..it WOOD only be natural.
kellyjo walters
a nice solid writing desk for my study, my hubby is writing a book and would love this
Liz Marriott
A beautiful carved, filigree screen for dividing large rooms
Marie
A wooden radio. I think it’d look awesome!
Mike Clarke
A wooden bicycle like the bamboo mountain bike.
NATALIE BRADLEY
A wooden phone case would look fab
Ashley Smith
Probably a BBQ, make the most of all the good summer weather we are having!
Splodz
I like that everyone else is saying they would make something pretty… you just want to make fire!! Like your thinking!
Miss Tulip
Oh wow this watch is amazing! I NEED it! I love all things wood. My step dad is a joiner but I don’t think he could make me this watch hehe. As a child I tried to make treehouses from sticks, bits of wood and rope with little luck. Now I am all growed up and have access to the right materials I just don’t have the time to make a treehouse. I hope to build one one day 🙂
Miss Tulip x
The Thrifty Magpies Nest
louiselicel
my laptop, as I spend a lot the the day using it & would much prefer the feel of wood under my wrists than plastic.
@lavendergables
Pm liu
A tree house for my little one
jennifer thorpe
I’d like to make some chopping/serving boards
ros lewis
I’d love to carve a tree, like one that’s been struck by lightning, (No little branches!)
Diana
A laptop, would look very ineteresting 🙂
Jade Vine
A wooden tie would be quite funky!
Darren Freeman
Coins because every time I go through the detector at the airport I always forget that 1 penny stuck in the corner of my pocket…. cue rub down and bag check..annoying!
amanda e
I would make a flexible wooden ruler
Janice
I would make a lovely ornament to sit on top of my new fireplace
Julie
I wood make a lot of lovely wooden gnomes for the front garden to cheer everyone up as they walked past and give them something to talk about
Hayley Wynn
a family mobility scooter so my partner doesn’t ride off and leave us all behind
k walsh
An adults bike – a bit like the childrens wooden trikes you can get.
Alyn Carrahar
A wooden bike would be great fun
Hassni
Wooden shoes. Yes, clogs. Love ’em.
Matt Froggatt
A fully wooden car!
Colin Bateman
A playstation controller, just to remind you that you are still in the real world, and because it would be very unique like the watch.
Holly Chandler
A wooden car that drives by foot power!
Amy Beckett
A rocking chair to listen to blues music in
Barbara Handley
A wooden case for my laptop computer would be nice.
mark fairhurst
A bath!! To feel and see the textures of nature whilst relaxing
Kat Allinson
A Garden bench to chill outside on
Florence Cross
I found the most gorgeous mini, laser cut pine tree in relief in Argentina, which of course I bought. I’d love to make a full size version for all my future Christmases.
Rich Tyler
A wooden treehouse – I’m such a big kid! 🙂
Lena Farell
I’ve always liked the idea of making my own wooden chess pieces. Maybe I’ll give it a go when I’ve retired and have more time 🙂
Hannah Demilia
A rocking chair for my daughter
Lisa Wilkinson
I’d like to build a little playhouse for my daughter to keep her entertained whilst I’m gardening 🙂
JANE ROBINSON
I would make a wooden car, it would have wooden wheels, wooden body and wooden engine – problem is it probably wooden go 🙂
Amy Ripley
A wooden set of wellies for my daughter to stamp in!
lisa brandling
A beautiful wooden carved ornate bed. Would love it
leemc
A tree as thats what nature intended.
Lisa Rhodes
a thor statue
Ruth G Grover
I have always admired those wooden benches with carved animals on them….but, for something unusual made from wood, I would like a wooden house…must be amazing to be in the centre of all that natural miracle.
julia
a wooden jewellery box ,in case I win a wooden watch
Amanda Milton
A wooden walking stick,just the right height for my mum,as the ones around are always too tall
Peter Foster
Underpants
jen1984j
A wooden summer house – my gran had one and i loved it
LEANNE PHILLIPS
I WOULD MAKE CAR 🙂
Gillian Hutchison
A wooden mobile phone as it would be a bit different
sam bailey
Id make a big oversized rocking chair for my bay window so i could just sit rocking and watching the world go by
Sue Dorking
a dolls house complete with the furniture. I always wanted one when I was little. I finally had a second hand one for Christmas but it was riddled with woodworm and ended up on the bonfire ( although I never knew, believed it had gone to a younger girl)
Ellen Stafford
A wooden statue of Phillip Schofield 😉 hehe
JAMES WRIGHT
a wooden mobile cover
louise
A car – not sure it would run but it would look pretty cool
SHERRI MSE FORDHAM
a storage unit under the stairs with lots of little compartment to hold everything
Mark Whittaker
I know it sounds simple , but I would love to make a giant fruit bowl. I love the way the grain of the wood and the knots are accentuated and distorted by the curves.
tam payne
I would make a new house so I can put my own design in building the house
Cathy O
My phone so when I dropped it it would hopefully not chip!
lindsey bluff
a big chest for all the toys in my living room!
Mark Palmer
Petrol – it would instantly become sustainable and I would make a fortune!
kazza ham
a wooden bicycle so that I could analyse a cyclist in an MRI scanner
Becky John
Oversized wooden stools for my patio
Katherine Coldicott
I’d make a set of wooden building bricks. I remember having a set when I was little & I loved the sound when you clicked them together.
Ali Thorpe
A house. I realise this is not that unusual but I have a bit of a thing for those Dutch homes that are all wood and glass, really airy and natural.
Jamie
I would like to make a wooden bicycle 🙂
Teresa Lee
A play castle for the garden – my son is obsessed with toy castles at the moment, he’d love it
Paul
A bird feeder. The plastic ones fall to bits in no time. I would just after look out for those pesky woodpeckers.
2013dogs
A log cabin which I would build in the middle of a forest so I could enjoy the peace and tranquillity
2013dogs
@kidsdogsandcats
Marjoleine Kok
I would love a wooden handbag 🙂
Sheila
A nice little boat to sail away into the sunset!
Ileana
A wooden tv! How retro would that look?!?
omgitslani
I would love a wooden treehouse!
Patricia Avery
I would love to build a tree house……for my grandchildren. Actually it is something I have yearned for for over 60 years! It would help if I had a tree in the garden to accommodate it but sadly not 🙁
Clint Howat
A rocking chair for myself.
angela sandhu (@angiesandhu)
bike @angiesandhu
Lynsey Buchanan
a kids rocking chair that could be passed down generation to generation
Louise M
A Lambretta Scooter as the parts wouldn’t rust.
Helen G
I would love to make some kind of storage unit for beauty products where everything had it’s place. I love a good storage solution 🙂 Fab giveaway! x
Kelly Hooper
I would really like to remake my GCSE practice sewing box, it was so bad my woodwork teacher announced at the start of our first lesson making our actual GCSE piece ‘Your about to start making your GCSE woodwork piece, you can use any medium you want, except Kelly who will be using metal as that will have the lowest chance of being wrecked by her woodworking skills’
Hannah Smith
a laptop case.. would be heavy, but feel great
@smeethsaysfashn on twitter
Leigh Larkin
A jewellery box for my little girls beautiful Christening presents
RACHAEL JONES
I would make a wooden puppet theatre , because i would love to ban computers in my house for a day and go back to old school fun 🙂
Jane Middleton
I would like to be able to make sculptures out of wood, those really large scale ones, as decorations for my garden
Emma
I would like to make a keepsake box for all the little things and photos for my son for when he is older. He is 4 at the moment
Martine Robinson
I would love to make wooden rocking horses for my baby twins Adam and Chloe
Martine Robinson
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Tim Millington
I would like to make a really good treehouse in the garden
wendy jamieson-price
a lutens bench for my garden that would be amazing
Hayley Mulgrove
I would make the biggest wooden bed ever so i had more room at night, as all the kids jump in and kick me out of mine, LOL
cluckyhen0
A lovely cutlery canteen as we have been fortunate enough to inherit some lovely silver table wear but we have nowhere suitable to store it
helenthemadex
a memory box for my daughter, I could put her first outfit, her first shoes in it and other things as she gets older
Shelley Jessup
I’d make some jewellery as I love being creative with beads & silver & I feel I could make some good animal pieces for jewellery, also I would liked to try & make a ring out of wood but it would have to be completely sealed as I want no splinters! My twitter is @jessups but I’ll leave my email in the box below. Thank you x
Jayne B
A Fijian long boat to sail across the oceans and visit beautiful tropical islands
laura hadland
We are making a new headboard with drawers in out of reclaimed pallets!
Wendy Tolhurst (@Tonkatol)
I would like to make a dresser – my stepfather’s grandfather made a lovely one that i remember growing up with – when my stepfather died, his son took it, but didn’t keep it in the house because it was too big for them, so I would like to make something similar as it was a beautiful piece of furniture and all the engravings on it were a huge talking point.
lyn burgess
I Would love to be able to make some pull along wooden toys, such as a dragonfly with moving wings, or a duck that waddled
lyn burgess
forgot to say, because my kids would love them, and my husband would be totally amazed
Dee
I’d make some garden furniture out of oak so it wouldn’t rot, it would be lovely to have somewhere to sit and dine outside for years to come (when the weather is warm enough!). x
Gale G
A whole house – no decorating, no floorcoverings, no painting!
Natalie Crossan
A house to live in that was eco friendly 🙂
MARK
a nice garden bench for this hot weather
Jenni Russell
I would make a wooden photo frame because i love the look of those =)
Kate O'Neill
A treehouse for adults. Alas, my skills with power tolls are pretty minimal…
Alisa Moore
A table lamp as I could be quite creative with the design
Jay Scales
Anything at all? I’d love a wooden TV & blu ray player. I don’t generally go for shiny black plastic in any other areas of decor, and yet I don’t really have any choice for these. Actually, why stop there? Why not a wooden Ipad and laptop? Wooden pc monitor & house phone? Ban the plastic!!
Sue Robinson
I think my music system would look great made from wood, it would fit perfectly into my lounge
Suzi Hulbert
I’d build a big sturdy wardrobe across the length of the bedroom that could also fit all my shoes in as mine has just collapsed 🙁
George Worboys Wright
A wooden bath, not very practical but it would look amazing!
Laura Costello
I would make a lovely wooden display case for my living room xx
Amy Beckett
Oh I would make my very own custom longboard – yeh they are usually made of wood but would love to make one that is suited to me. I decided to take up longboarding at the age of 28. I did my first 10 mile push last week – very proud of myself.
Carolyn Corrin
I would love to make a beautiful Family keepsake box, to keep all the certificates, e.g. marriage, christening etc plus all the special things my family have made themselves for little handmade cards, little notes, those sort of things.
Hazel Lemar
I would make a wooden open top car because I would love to ride about in the summer and smile at people’s faces when they saw it drive by.
Gillian Holmes
Some storage, you can never have enough