Category: Creative and Maker Projects
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A holiday miracle – Attempt #3
I was cooking pancakes this morning and my face just showed up in one of them… it’s a holiday miracle!
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A lost craft work from my childhood
I found this Thor Hammer Mug in a box of toys I had been keeping from my childhood. It is the first ceramic piece I ever made and had fired. I remember making it at age 12 during a summer art camp. I was in to Thor comics, so between my seventh and eighth grades…
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Re-post from Aug., 15 2005: Warning labels and Mexico
I was vacuuming today and noticed that the bottom of the vacuum cleaner had a notice sticker and a warning label. It was a good thing cause I almost lost a toe while vacuuming. The warning label was the only thing that saved it. Well, not really, but it got me thinking about how many…
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Compost – Part 1
Compost is a great topic with all sorts of room for discussion and investigation, so I am going to take on the topic in parts. It is also a BIG topic. Understanding compost requires a few layers of biology, a layer of agriculture, a layer of physics, and some thrown in construction, environmentalism, gardening, and…
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Attempt 2: Fail (But better than Attempt 1). Progress.
Getting closer! This is just a teaser of something in the works. Not quite ready for the light yet, but wanted to share a preview.
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The economics of a rain barrel
My water company charges $2.99 for a unit of water, which is defined as 100 cubic feet, or 748.5 gallons. This breaks down to just under 4 tenths of one cent per gallon of water that comes through the pipes. So what do we get for that 0.4 cents? We get water from a local…
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Wooden Bike Saddle??
I think the MFA program did something to my head, because somewhere in the processes of dreaming this up I concluded it was a good idea to actually do it…
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A Global Bike (a longer post)
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Timo Lantern
In preparation for Halloween; The Timo’Lantern!
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Remember these?
They’re out of a box of toys from when I was a kid. Amazing how strong the memories and emotions attached to those little things are even after a couple decades of other life to get in the way. Anyone who says nostalgia isn’t a powerful emotion probably isn’t human, or has some sort of…