One day I decided to try to fix something in my old Victorian house in St. Helena, California. Fixing or replacing lights, renovating cabinets and refinishing my deck which wrapped around the exterior of the house. Over time and many projects I acquired a battalion of tools. Beneath my house was a wine making facility I had built a couple of years before, fortunately I was not into making wine at the time. It unfolded nicely into a woodshop.
Soon I had discovered that remodeling and fixing odds and ends around the house was not exactly my thing. I narrowed my focus down to smaller more personal objects, jewelry boxes, keepsake boxes and so on...Then it was obvious to me that woodworking was my passion.