Is anyone else incensed by the outrageous prices of packaging? I had to send a book someone bought from me via Amazon.com today, and I didn’t want to buy a box–I just moved, so I am tired of seeing boxes in general–so, I borrowed the design that Amazon.com uses to send me my textbooks when [...]
I found another good idea–yes, I’ve been trolling the net again. This one comes from thriftynaturalist at The Thrifty Naturalist blog. The post I am talking about is called Thrifty Housekeeping Tip #1, and it talks about making a soap bag to hang from the faucet that will put the soap where you need it and help [...]
I think that when we make something out of junk, or anything that it wasn’t originally intended for, we are messing with the 4th dimension, or time.
Look at it this way, when we take an old cutting board and make a picture frame (hypothetical, I’ve never done that) we radically alter the time-path the cutting [...]
I thought about putting in another interesting web site that features some junk creator here, but I was looking back, and the “Grab Bag” posts seem to have become a secondary “Weekend Webpage” category. So (at least for today) I’ll dispense with the other people, and try to ramble on about something worthwhile–assuming (perhaps incorrectly) [...]
Today’s How-To came more from necessity than from creativity–I think. Sunday came around, and I was dressed up, tried to put my belt on, and the leather had come unstitched–not a revelation, mind you, I had put off fixing the leather for so long that it was really just an inconvenient reality. So, I fixed [...]
Arncraft, the article I’m linking to for this weekend’s post, is part of www.creativekidsathome.com. And, as it states in the index page of this site, it seems that Arnold (you might have guessed, eh?) teaches kids to reuse old items to make toys. (The above picture comes from the Arncraft site).
I like this idea. It [...]
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