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Safety In All Things Great and Small
A few years ago I stumbled on a blogger who I enjoyed a great deal. She hasn’t blogged since 2015, which makes me sad, but just the other day I was reminded about how we touch each others lives.
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Custom Foam Inserts or how to test your marriage Part 1
When you take the bottle stoppers your husband turned. Take everything out of a storage box in his office and head to the office with a can of spray foam even the best of marriages is put to the test.
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Makers Spaces
What is a “Makers Space” and why would you want to join?
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Cheap Lathe Tools
About 20 years ago, Marisa and I went to a woodworking demo at a nearby woodworking store. At this Demo, many tools were being displayed and demonstrated. Among them, Dick Sing was turning Christmas ornaments on a Jet 1236 lathe. … Continue reading
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Office Remodel
Where did all the posts go? The shop was built with the intention of having office space in it. For a long time that space was more of a hang out space where we took breaks while working on projects. … Continue reading
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Re-learning silk screening
It all started with an innocent request, “Do we still have all that silk screen stuff? If so I would like a t-shirt that says CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL FRAUD.”
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Learning Elementor and WordPress
We all have different opinions of what makes a good or bad website. Like anything else it boils down to personnel preference. For me the function has to come before form the majority of the time. Our site has used … Continue reading
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Disassembling a Pen
If you make enough pens, eventually you may need to disassemble one. Reasons may range from assembling wrong, to breaking something, to screwing up the blank. Recently, Sam was making a pen, and I was helping trim the blank. I … Continue reading
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Sam’s Watermelon
This spring, Sam planted a single watermelon seed in the flower garden by the front walk. It grew. We watched the little melon grow all summer, and grow it did!
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Tree Castle
My wife and I have wanted to build a tree house for our son since we moved in to our current house. Living in 9 acres of woods, what boy wouldn’t want one. He sure does. We’ve looked at different trees, looked at how to build them, and never found the perfect trees.
When we moved here, at the east end of a little clearing by the barn, there was a large oak tree, about 36 inches in diameter, that had recently broken off about 20 feet up. I had often thought about building something on top of that. We talked about it last fall, and decided to build it as our first project of the spring.
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