So that green icord I've been making? Yeah, it's going to get a wire shoved down it so it's bendy. And then it's going to get pressed into service to wrangle the curtain I use on my porch (to manage the blistering sun and/or pouring rain + window screen situation) [...]

Every time I post a video on instagram showing an icord machine in action, at least a few people feel in their hearts a sudden, burning desire to come to own one of their own. Which is fair! I, too, have felt this longing, which is why I own not [...]

I recently had a of couple posts go and break containment on instagram...which is moooooostly lovely, but does mean a small influx of folks who don't know the rules or don't match the vibe. So I did a little intro & reminder post both there (because if someone is going [...]

June's Notable Nonsense went in the mail yesterday and should start arriving in mailboxes early next week. Is that two days later than I'd have liked? Yup! Did the package with the cards ship a full week after it was supposed to? Mmmm hmm. Did Fedex then have an unexpected [...]

I did tell you I was entering a slipper phase. And if you've been here for more than a minute, you know I don't usually do things by half measures. So it seems perfectly reasonable that the slippers would, eventually, come to include grommets and/or laces. At least for some values [...]

But boy on boy are there small but deeply frustrating problems from time to time. The good news is I've already solved this one! Quick version up top for anyone in a hurry: There was a manufacturing error with the first batch of cards, so I got them reprinted. They'll [...]

So the idea of elbow patches on the (previously mended, once chopped, heavily worn) sweater we discussed in the last post seems to be quite well received, but some folks had some more specific questions about how I'm actually going to do it. The short answer is 'erm, sew some [...]

So back in the halcyon days of October 2024, when the phrase "for profit cage match on the white house lawn" had not yet been uttered by serious journalists, I took scissors to a sweater that had languished in the back of my closet since about 2015. I didn't like [...]

When last we left our non-slip slipper saga (say that three times fast), we had gooped up the sacrificial sock with some Plasti Dip and Sock Stop.* (Saga installments start here and continue here and here, should you be so inclined.) After it dried, it looked like this.  I sent [...]