Prototype fail win ( Read more... )

So I had this ugly promotional tote bag. I wanted to start bringing my lunch to work, but the tote bag didn't make a very good vessel for a piece of fruit and a tupperware box. I thought, "I know! I'll mod it into a more practical lunch bag with my leet sewing skillz ( Read more... )

Working on felting a trial covering for one of those lamps ( Read more... )

I am calling my new web project Petit Point, because more things need to combine Ajax and embroidery. (It is not about embroidery, though you could use it to help with crafts, if you wanted to, if I ever finish it.) This probably falls under the category of false pedigree I was just bitching about in my last post, but it will not fall for a retro- ( Read more... )

I am thinking about buying this machine, since it seems the best of the cheap few-frills models. What I actually want is this bad boy that dymaxion found, which seems too good to be true, but I don't really have $900 unaccounted for ( Read more... )

Yargh. When do we get to the stage of unpacking where I know where everything* is?

"When I next pack up everything and move" is disqualified on grounds of demonstrable falsehood.

* In this case, a spool of heavy black upholstery thread and a palm-sized brick of beeswax.

Apartment lights: 5/4! Added/replaced four fixtures, added a fifth in the main room. I have a mortal fear of electrocution that doesn't seem to have abated any since college (you can tell from my obsessive peering at the breaker box to make really sure they're still off, at least once every thirty seconds, and the tremulous fear of touching the ( Read more... )

Today in Ari's Misadventures with Home Improvement ( Read more... )

Great moments in decorating an apartment with not-even-a-tiny-little-bit-square corners ( Read more... )

Just signed up for the LED Display class tomorrow at Resistor. :D