Far from perfect, there's plugged holes, woodstain blotches, warping and tearout, but it looks good enough, works really well and is a major upgrade from the plastic box.
Made from old sawmill scrap I recut on the table saw.
Great learning experience. There's a splined miter, dowels, lap joints and lots of edge glued planks.
I didn't buy anything to make this. Okay, I bought a piano hinge but didn't use it 😁
Don't want to waste any precious hardwood to make a quick & dirty drill guide?
Just use one of those nasty big knots that aren't good for much else. Because they're plenty hard! :)
Straight through the knot with the drill press (which is in the garage) and now I can use this knot to make straight holes anywhere with my hand drill. The bottom is flat.
I painted the chimney breast in my living room and it makes me so happy I keep walking into the kitchen so I can go back into the living room to see it again fresh. #DIY#HomeDecor
This is the most expensive stamp I've ever bought but isn't it lovely? It will take a lot of practice to perfect and will take a long time to stamp out onto a project but I hope it will be worth it for the beauty it will grace upon the leather.
(Also one of my most complex captions I have ever had to explain.) #HandMade#leather#LeatherCraft#DIY#woven
So I ordered a pack of mutant purple cherry tomato seeds (https://www.norfolkhealthyproduce.com/) and am trying to grow from seed this year, for the first time.
I couldn't really start them til we got back from our road trip, but I germinated them in a paper towel in a plastic bag on top of our fridge, and it worked fabulously well!
My sister, who is a green thumb, sent me a seed tray with a grow light and patiently answered my zillion questions today - so now they are transplanted and sitting in the warmest spot I could find, by the exhaust vent for our kegerator. 😇
Hoping they like it there...
11 of the 14 transplants came up, and they're starting to outgrow the seed tray... Pulled the lid and stuck them under some bigger grow lights til I get a chance to move them to peat pots this weekend. So exciting!
They survived our mini-vacation this week, so today I took them out on the back deck and transplanted them to peat pots that my sister kindly prepared for me. (She's a plant whisperer and sent me training wheels - the seed tray, lights, and these little pots - for this new adventure...)
In retrospect, I probably should have done this indoors - it's pretty breezy today, and a few of the more leggy seedlings got blown around and are now floppy. 💨😬 I made little mini-trellises out of some wire-ties, to give them a bit of support in the new pots... Hopefully they'll recover now that they're back in a quiet corner under their grow lights.🤞🏻
My goal is at least four plants for my back deck garden; if more survive, I'm looking forward to sharing them with my sister and other friends!
Purple cherry tomato update: yak shaving! 💜🍅🌿
Tomato seedlings outgrew the Aerogarden, so I took some to Mom to give to my sister, and I've been taking the rest outside in the morning to harden them off before transplanting into outdoor pots.
I have these nifty self-watering tomato planters from Gardeners Supply that have an outer pot with a reservoir, interior frame with a grow bag and capillary strip. Absolutely fantastic for hot dry NC summers, we were awash in cherry tomatoes come July & August... But apparently last year I threw away the grow bags (probably because they were super manky after three seasons of tomatoes in them!).
No big deal, I'll just call and get replacements... Except that they only have two in stock. 🙄
So I swung by Lowes and picked up a roll of landscaping fabric, and now I get to find out whether my sewing machine can handle nonwoven polypropylene...
But at least the seedlings are tall and happy, and my improvised chopstick supports are helping them stand up to the morning breezes! 😁
Update #1: I wanted to share this article that was brought to my attention. The US Guardian wrote a piece that really gets to the heart of why I'm sounding a warning, while also helping to frame that this isn't directed at the .com Guardian—they seem to have a healthy viewpoint on how trans people should be treated.
This may be mainly travel for now as that is what I am lucky enough to do for the next year. So, food, landscapes, reflections, and maybe music or just weird things that catch my eye.
"Somebody to run it" not paid to do this (it's community #DIY) so what are you doing that is not individualist noise? Honest question as the #openweb is not at its core #mainstreaming It's why it's interesting and has value.
"I am running my own instance" That's fine, but it's not the project, society is based on communertys more than individuals, I understand the power of #mainstreaming but the #openweb is interesting because it's NOT this :)
You just have to do a little research and find an instance that matches what you're looking for. https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=mod this is a lot on this subject if you read down.
OK feel free to comment on the blog if you like :)
What if all workplace cultures were as well-crafted as #VideoGames❓
The Engagement Game 📚 shows how organizational culture and leadership can be super-charged by applying the same principles that a #GameDev applies when creating games.
If my garden is successful this year I very much want to learn how to preserve things I grow. Canned homegrown peaches and dried corn and beans to use next winter sounds wonderful. I want to participate in a form of survivalism that isn't just buying gear and supplies and storing them. I have a small yard in a suburban neighborhood so I have no illusions of becoming completely self sustained but it feels like valuable practice.
My partner just walked home with this, he made us a garden shelf for the summer. Entirely from pallets he sources from companies around here. Isn't it great?
Cost is the screws, a few euros or so.
Lots of use value renewed for this wood that would otherwise get scrapped.