Bornfamous

Today is traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year, but you don’t have to join the insanity. Stay home, relax, enjoy your Thanksgiving leftovers, and celebrate Buy Nothing Day. Think of it as your little contribution to saving the planet.

Making Pennies Squeak. You’ll be a LOT happier if you take this advice.

I love to watch Darryl Hannah’s [sort of] weekly videos about the environment. She’s the real deal.

I’ve been using this purse, made out of the leg of a pair of Robby’s old jeans, as a sampler to learn embroidery. [See it unadorned here.] But the bright yellow threads contrasted with purple on the blue denim background seemed just a tad bit too colorful for me to actually wear. I’m one of [...]

If you’d like to be entertained while you do your cyber Christmas shopping, This is the catalog for you: American Science & Surplus. Plus, the prices are amazing. One of my favorite items:
Digital Suspension Device

We’re using semantic obfuscation to crowd this plastic finger hook into a scientific category. It really doesn’t cut it as [...]

Oops — almost forgot to blog, and it’s only day three of NaBloPoMo — well, day two for me, since I missed day one. Anyways…
So I’m learning to knit. I made a bee-yootiful scarf for Robby’s girlfriend’s birthday [which turned out to be the day Rusty died. Weird.] It wasn’t my mad knitting skillz that [...]

Great. I missed the deadline to sign up for National Blog Posting Month [plus I've already missed the FIRST DAY of posting] so I’m out of luck when it comes to getting in on the goodies. But it’s still a great way to get back in the habit of posting every day, so I’m going [...]