Category Archives: Projects
One of my photos on the Tosh.0 blog
I had a message from a friend the other day pointing me to this link on the Tosh.0 blog. It is from my Instructable on how to make an easy gruesome serving dish out of a doll. I read that blog almost daily and would probably have seen it on my own but it was …
Our workshop
Last year after we learned we were going to Mongolia we had to figure out what to do with our household belongings. we could rent a storage unit for a few hundred dollars a month, buy a container to put our things in, or… build our own. I was able to spend a few weeks …
Wire sculpture of a champagne bottle
I don’t have many resources for being very creative here. But I noticed that bits of wire are easily found along the roadsides and sidewalks so I have started to pick some up. At a ger camp last year I made a small bird using wire and feathers. Today I made this champagne bottle from …
The storage building roof
Just over a week ago I had Mike here and Keith and Sarah came over to help Pepper and I with a day of work on the storage building and shop. I had a manlift and good weather. I started by working on the roof. Sarah cut pieces of metal as Mike controlled the lift …
Storage building and shop – second floor and roof
I took some time off on Thursday and Friday to take advantage of a lack of rain. We had the front and back walls of the second floor go up and we framed one of the end walls once we had the rafters. The back wall height allows the siding to hang down to the …
Storage building and shop – first floor
I made significant headway before the 4th of July on the shop building. I already posted about the piling and beams. But I managed to get the floor joists in and square and then the inch and an eighth plywood flooring down before I had to spend a week and a half of almost all …
Storage building and shop – foundation
Since we are renting out the house while we’re in Mongolia we need to move much of our stuff into storage. Sure, we’re going to have a massive garage sale and we’re taking 12 large bags of stuff with us. But we’ll have a house of furniture, books, toys, puzzles, tools, kitchen stuff and clothing …
Our garden and shed
A few weeks ago we started building a garden and I spent a few days building this garden shed to go along. The shed was built on a 2×10 and 3/4 inch plywood base that used to be the top of my ramp. I used salvaged 2×4 boards for the walls and roof joists and …
Easter eggs dyes with silk ties
A few of the crafty websites I frequent mentioned using silk ties to dye eggs. So for Easter this year we tried it out. We went to the Salvation Army and bought a few ties with interesting patterns. Not all of the ties we bought said they were silk which was unfortunate because some of …
Titan tankless water heater repair
A few days ago Pepper said that the boiler room stunk. She didn’t know if the cats had been the cause or some workshop mayhem but she was certain there was a bad odor in there. I checked during lunch and it seemed fine to me. Then she said that she couldn’t get very hot …
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