A blog of a variety of projects
In my office, I like to have a cup of pens and pencils sitting around at all times. All the pens go in one bucket and any more organization is beyond me. A long time ago I decided I wanted to put my mug of pens somewhere off the desk,…
I love my headphones, which is good, because I wear them like 10 hours a day. On my old chair, I would just hang my headphones over the back because the back of the chair was about as thick as my head. Recently, I got a new JÄRVFJÄLLET office chair…
I finally organized the wires that were all over my desk with a customized USB switch and a wire shelf inside my desk.
This is a recipe for winter spice ginger ale, made with a full-volume boil, flavored with cinnamon and anise, and force carbonated.
In the spirit of “no-effort November,” here is a post about bottling tap water.
This is a recipe for basic, ginger-flavored ginger ale that isn’t too sweet and has plenty of ginger. Made with a full-volume boil and force-carbonated.
We have a train-station-style Ikea wall clock that I really like, but it chews through batteries pretty fast, at least on one side. There are actually 2 clock mechanisms back-to-back, so they were mercifully designed to be smooth and not clicky. On the other hand, that means it doesn’t fail…
We’re currently remodeling the bathroom on the first floor of our house. Part of that remodel will include putting wallpaper on the upper half of the wall, which is something I had never done before. To make sure I am comfortable doing it, we decided to apply wallpaper to the…
This is a simple little shim to help mount a door hinge slightly further away from the door frame stop moulding.
Since we have moved in to our new house, I have been putting off finishing the kitchen cabinets with trim. I finally got around to working on it and finished the floor molding. First, there is a gap between the pantry and the wall. The wall wasn’t plumb, so we…
