Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Traveling: Simple in Sin City v.1

So I'm off to Vegas this weekend for a week long job ... and beginning a private experiment on how to keep simple while on the road. It's an ambitious destination to start the project but they're sending me there, so I go. My tolerance of Vegas is usually 48 hours max before I start begging to get the hell out: I never gamble, my body hates cigarette smoke, and the blatant excess and waste of resources just makes my skin crawl. Can a simplist survive in Sin City for a full week? Stay tuned...

Monday, March 27, 2006

Recycling: Old Papasan, New Tuffet!

Here's one of my recent postings to Craftster.org:
I finally got up the nerve to dispense with the beast known as the papasan chair (cool when you're 20, not so much when you're 30...and even the Salvation Army won't accept them as a donation) but Mojo kitty seemed to like the coziness of the stand,
Adventure Kitty takes a time out
so I decided to see what I could come up with in terms of recycling it into something I could use. (I swear I am reincarnated from someone who lived during the Great Depression, normal people do not think like this, sadly!) I finally figured that the stand is just the right height to act as a foot stool (something I was lacking to begin with and not ready to part with $70 at Ikea to buy one). I used some of this crappy cheap ribbon that I had to buy 75 yards of for a halloween costume to create the cradle to hold the pillow.
Step 1

I then unstuffed the big papasan pillow (I now have batting to last a long, long time) and traced a circle onto the fabric to fit the stand. I sewed it up, restuffed with fill and dried lavender, put my feet up and aaaaah time to relax with my brand new tuffet.

Thinking of adding a small zipper so that it can be opened easily and washed... and maybe adding buttons to give it better shaping.
Ta Da!


Feet up, Mojo checks out original papasan frame for potential "Beyond Thunder-cat Dome"?

I was trying to think of something creative to do with that frame, but kicking the crap out of it to get it dismantled (GREAT stress relief) destroyed the coil of bamboo (or whatever the heck this indestructible material is). Finally got it down to a giant circle with 4 bracing arms and just couldn't get it dismantled any further without a saw or stronger thighs. It's currently in the area above my shower and threatening to inspire me to create some funky hanging mobile thing... stay tuned...
 

Friday, March 24, 2006

Link of the Day

Today's link is a musical tribute, just chilling on a Friday, trying to get thru the end of the week, listening to a little Simply Red. AAAAAAHHHHH.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Link of the Day

Well them folks over at Union of Concerned Scientists finally uploaded my Hybrid pic to their "Who's Got Hybrids" page.
(Though clicking it doesn't always cause my page to pop up first.) For those of you who haven't switched to hybrid yet, there's many a testimonial from satisfied customers.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Day One on the Blogging Frontier

Well here goes nothing, the first day on the blog highway. It's going to be a learning experience for both of us, dear reader. And while Blogger makes blogging simple, even my knowledge of html code is 10 years out of date and I'm starting to feel like my grandmother here, with little or no clue of how I'm supposed to get this program to do what I want it to do. (No peaking at my homepage just yet, it's way messy.) So here goes nothing, hope you enjoy the ride. Here's me. Get to know me.

Blogging, Day 1...

Well here we go, I have finally decided to dip my toe into Lake Blog. The water is warm, the climate is hospitable. Let's see if I can manage not to screw this up.