From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Jim’s DS Box

30 April 2008

So here’s what Jim wanted me to make him.
A box for his Nintendo.

It’s similar to the folding box. In fact it started out like the folding box but then I closed up the sides so that it would be easier to use the DS while it was still in the box. (Hence the drop front.) [...]

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Paper Boxes

30 April 2008

I got a kit for making a paper box last week. It was from Books by Hand. They have a number of kits for making books/albums and boxes using book board, book cloth, and decorative papers. Ben Franklin sells the kits. Mostly they sell complete kits but if you scout around you can find kits [...]

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Shoes

30 April 2008

There’s an magazine called Antenna, that showcases “street wear” Something that, as a middle aged white lady, I know little or nothing about. However, the magazine is a treasure trove of images of things (shoes, sweatshirts, toothbrushes(?)) laid out against a white background.

Each issue has several pages of – shoes.
Some of which were cut out [...]

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First Sign of Spring

29 April 2008

lousy photo – i took it in the barn at twilight.

nonetheless – he’s the first swallow of spring.

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Busy Weekend Down on the Farm

29 April 2008

We did way too much farm stuff this weekend.
We’ve known that the chicken coop needed work before it could house the new laying flock. We got carried away. Or rather the chicken coop got carried away. We moved it from behind the barn out to the house-side edge of the pasture. We’ll be able to [...]

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Trivia I Need

23 April 2008

ColourLovers posted a list of all 120 Crayola crayon colors and their (approximate) hex and RGB codes. The list was complied by Aaron at ColorSchemer.com.

I am now going to waste several hours creating a custom Photoshop palette of these colors.
Sigh.
BTW When did the Crayola site change so much? I remember it as being a much [...]

Tagged as: color, crayons

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Birdfeeder Design and a Good Use of Website Animation

17 April 2008

I’m a fan of birdfeeders and clever product design. The Architect’s Birdfeeder, designed by Doug Patt Pratt, is good looking and an intriguing engineering solution.

The key feature – it ships like flat-pack furniture but better because it goes together without that nasty cheap little hex wrench thing.
The animation of the assembly of the birdfeeder on [...]

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Chicken Farming

16 April 2008

We have new chicks. 12 arrived this morning.
Here’s my favorite. (A rooster with my luck!)

More info and updates on the chicken page.

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Opinion – Good Cop Have a Doughnut

14 April 2008

This weekend was garage and barn tidy time. Which inevitably results in a trip to the local transfer station.
Load up the flatbed trailer and hitch it up to the adventure truck (don’t forget to take a dog along!) and off we go.
40 minutes later we pull onto the scale at the transfer station and the [...]

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One Finished and One Not-So-Much

14 April 2008

Work on the balloon seller picture is complete. You can see a full-size digital version here.
(no small version today – can’t get it to resize correctly – maybe tomorrow)

The image in the gallery is a digital version that I made for Jim to use on his desktop. It mimics the effect of being printed on [...]

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