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[ 23 Oct 2011 | No Comment | 515 views]
My Scary Face House in the Daytime

Many people think the fronts of cars look life faces.  There is even an entire Flickr set devoted to car faces!  Well, ever since I saw my house for this first time, I thought my house look like a face.  The windows are perfect eyes and the garage looks like a mouth.

I needed to put my anthropomorphic house theory to the test. (Yes, I had to look up how to spell anthropomorphic.)  For Halloween, I decided to use my house face palette to create a scary face.  Adam and I …

Adventures in DIY, Furniture, PVC »

[ 12 Jan 2011 | No Comment | 1,074 views]
aligning the duct tape

I purchased a dome chair from a big box store last year and it didn’t hold up very well.  The chair part ripped and fell of the frame.  Since the frame was still left intact, I didn’t want to throw it away -so I reused it to make a new chair.  Using duct tape (the best duct tape of all – Nashua 357), I created a new frame for the chair.  This project was quick, cheap, and easy; it used less than $10 in materials and only an hour of …

Adventures in DIY, Our Hobby Business, PVC »

[ 10 Jan 2011 | No Comment | 779 views]
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The SheekGeek office doesn’t have very good lighting and because of this, working on things at my work desk is always tough.  I’ve tried a lot of different solutions to this problem such as the lighted helping hands set-up, sitting a small fluorescent light on top of my parts organizer, and even hanging the lamp from a couple of the bins on the top row of the parts organizer.  None of these provided a good solution.  The fluorescent lamp was rather blinding, and with every solution, my hands cast shadows …

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[ 20 Dec 2010 | No Comment | 659 views]
lemon

After baking a cheesecake, my husband cut off the top to the lemon juice container.  It turns out that the resulting plastic container creates the perfect jug-like instrument.  Because it is plastic you can easily squeeze the “lemon” to create different sounds.  Just like a real jug instrument, you can also add water to make different notes.  I wonder if you can add holes to create a ocarina-like instrument?  Perhaps that will be another post…

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[ 9 Jul 2010 | No Comment | 296 views]
The nose cone is saved!

The Rocketry of Central Carolina (ROCC) hosts rocket launches using their rocket pad for rockets from 1/4 A motor size all the way up to gigantic K size motors.   Adam and I have gone several times just to watch the launches, and a few times Adam has launched his own rockets.  I much prefer this to the times he used the car battery to launch a few homemade rockets at our home.  Watching rocket launches is free and a small donation is recommended if you use the ROCC launchpad.  See …

Adventures in DIY, Education = Learning »

[ 3 May 2010 | No Comment | 1,155 views]
Scrap Exchange

Now that some time has passed, I am able to reflect thoughtfully and professionally over the Maker Faire that was held in Durham on Sunday, April 25th.
From a teacher’s perspective, four makers in particular presented things I just “need” to have in my classroom.  This is my wish list:

Classroom Visits for “Scrap” from the ScrapExchange
Leatherbound Books
ShopBot Tyro
DIY Multi-Touch Screen

Find reasons and more information about each of my choices after the jump.

Adventures in DIY, Reviews about Stuff, Scrapbooking »

[ 31 Aug 2009 | 2 Comments | 828 views]
viovioreview

Viovio has been described on blogs and websites as being one of the best quality photobook services available. Because of this reason, I decided to try their services and overall I am pleased with my experience.

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[ 19 Jul 2009 | No Comment | 2,878 views]
Sketchup Bookshelf Front

This is the first part in a two part series about how to design, build, and finish a simple woodworking project.  This part focuses on the design and build of the project.
Jessica and I tend to collect a lot of books.   I mean a LOT of books.  When one of those cheap 7ft tall particle board bookcases we had finally bit the dust, and fell on me, I decided we would only get solid wood bookcases from now on.  I also decided that it was probably best that the bookcase …

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[ 9 Jul 2009 | 9 Comments | 2,090 views]
Using Drawer Liners Maximizes Organization

Everything about the Ikea Alex made it a perfect addition to our home office – except its color. After a few coats of black spray paint, some mod podge, and damask styled scrapbooking paper, I had myself an Ikea Alex hack that looked perfect for our tastes.