On our trip to Ikea we picked up some tables for Ewan’s toys and trains. He helped me put them together. Here he is with one of them.
Archive for category projects
Toy Table
Nov 22
Floor
Jan 25
Before and After
Last weekend we, with some help from the parentals, replaced the carpet and linoleum from our living room and kitchen and replaced it with some wood looking flooring. It was more hard to rip up the linoleum than any thing else. We got all the flooring down, except the trim on Saturday and Sunday, and have spent the past week bringing all the crap back in the rooms.
Giant Ewan
Jan 24
Ewan as rendered in twenty 8.5″x11″ images created with The Rastorbator. Its pretty cool. I have some frames left over and am looking for another picture to Rastorbate.
windfall woodworks
Oct 31
Last weekend we traveled to my parents house. On Saturday mourning, I helped my dad pour the floor on his new shop. Tobias and his crew did most of the work, I stood around and tried to stop the concrete from falling on the ground in between wheelbarrow loads. I was done pretty early, while the finishers had to wait around a long while for the concrete to cure in the cold.
On Sunday, I took some pictures for dad’s Christmas present. I ordered him some Moo business cards for his crafting business. He will never know since he is very off line and does not read this thing. Here are the images that will grace the backs of the cards and some that I just took for fun.
Saturday night
Apr 10
Oh what a night. We needed to attach the cube shelves to the wall to prevent them from wobbling all over the place. First, though I had to move the thermostat, because once I attached the shelves to the wall, the thermostat would forever be set at a random temperature.
So after drilling a hole in a stud, I cut a different hole and tried to fish the wires from the existing whole. I failed terribly at this and managed to drop the wires into the wall.
What was supposed to be a short easy move, proved to be far more difficult, and because I started my project at 10 PM we would have to sleep in the cold, because for the life of me I could not hook the fishing line with a coat hanger. What a surprise.
So at 12:30 I drove to Meijer to buy a tape designed for fishing wires through walls. I managed to buy some popsicles and dish soap, but no tape.
So we slept in the cold. I woke up at 5 and figured out what I needed to cut a hole near the floor to fish the wires from the basement.
So around 5:15 I had the new digital thermostat hooked up to the wires, but the furnace would not turn on. The fan worked, but the heat would not turn on.
After, another 45 minutes fiddling with the furnace I decided to go back to bed.
I woke up at 11 and decided to hook up the old thermostat and eureka! the furnace came back on. Then I knew that the thermostat was the problem. Then I figured out that though there was enough juice in the thermostat to tell me the temperature there was not enough to turn the furnace on. So after stealing some batteries from a remote, I finally had the heat working. Now I only had to patch 3 holes and attach the shelves to the wall…