Allen Roman

I spent most of Thanksgiving this year alone again, so I decided to make lots of delicious food for myself to celebrate.

• Clam chowder
  • Use the salmon chowder recipe from The Pacific Northwest Seafood Book by Naomi Tomky, replacing the salmon with canned clams instead. It was fantastic, ev...

In January of this year, I decided to finally try and tackle making a James Gurney Style Easel. It was first time really working with wood in general, so I made a ton of mistakes on a work surface that was really a small melamine box with a drawer my friend gave me for free. I will let the pictu...

For the last 7 months of 2018, I was bullet journaling in a Midori MD notebook and decided to do a daily calendar drawing to summarize my day. It was a fun daily experiment that, looking back on, I am proud of. I have restarted it for a few months in 2020 and hope to continue in 2021.

As a creative person, my mind is always wandering between projects I am doing and projects I want to do. Hobbies I've taken and hobbies for the future. My thoughts, like my hands, never want to sit still. It's on the lookout for different, better, newer, exciting, exhilarating, and potentially craz...

I got into woodworking at the beginning of the year, spurred on by a desire to create a portable easel like James Gurney. After that first project I was hooked and set my sights on building a workbench so I had a "proper space" to work at. I built myself a low roman workbench (thanks to Rex Krueg...