early morning muse
Jun 01 2009
For Christmas 2007, Jon and I bought his mother a digital picture frame. After growing accustomed to the idea of yet more geekery (she married an engineer and raised 2 of them, to boot!), last Christmas she handed off one of her three plastic frames and asked me to do something with it. [...]
May 22 2009
Last month I invested in a Shop Fox Benchtop Sandblaster and I’m happy I did. In less than half a day, I was able to strip the paint from more than a dozen tins of varying sizes. I love working with tins, but admit that I find sanding them by hand a tedious [...]
Apr 24 2009
Since Christmas ‘08, I’ve been clawing my way through our house in an attempt to rid us of unnecessary stuff. It seems it propagates as fast as dust bunnies, which propagate as fast as living bunnies. I don’t consider this to be an overly large house. While it was listed as a 4-bedroom, [...]
Mar 11 2009
This notebook was pulled apart and altered from the ground up. There is great satisfaction in taking something bland and giving it new life. This project is also the last time I intend to use Best-Test paper cement in my projects. It works well as an adhesive but smells (uncomfortably) nasty, even [...]
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
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