From the monthly archives:

April 2008

DS Box">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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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