In May I found that my shelves were stuffed (more than usual) with offcuts and leftovers of wood. I didn't want to throw them out, I didn't want to burn them, and I didn't want to make another chopping board - so I decided to stick them together and make a stripy creepie.

Continuing the design theme from my third creepie my next creepie was made from olive ash and walnut. The olive ash was milled by me direct from the tree at the start of 2021. To highlight the stunning olive ash the entire top of the stool was made from ash and the walnut sides were placed underneath. I call this the “Chocolate” olive ash creepie because of the amazing brown colouration in the wood. As a reminder – this type of wood is normally rejected by timber merchants as it is just too wild both in colouration and grain direction. Only local specialist sawmills would retain this sort of timber.…

Wanting to have three different styles of creepies, my third creepie may be described as more contemporary.

Taking a possibly blasphemous approach to the original Scottish vernacular creepie stool, I decided to make this one full of holes in the side skirts and legs.

My first creepie used some beautiful Scottish rippled ash and was bordered by olive ash wings. The legs were perpendicular to the body with a key-hole shaped cut-out. Wooden pegs were used and the top had a rounded finger-hole in the centre.