It’s been a very long couple of weeks ! I took some needed vacation at the end of 2006 (mostly because IBM said I had to or I’d lose my vacation time). I’ve been talking for a long time about making something out of the bamboo flooring that was left over from when I did [...]

“Thank You” to my mom who recently shipped me a new pair of felted wool slippers. I had the very first pair she ever made but after years of running around in them, the bottoms finally wore out. Over Christmas, I found out she was making them again and immediately put in a request [...]

I decided this year I would finally send out holiday greeting cards. I used those photo print cards you can do at most department store and pharmacy chains. They came out “OK” - the color matching on most of these types of systems are marginal at best so the colors don’t always do the original [...]

I heard a truck approaching down the long dirt drive and was so excited that FedEx was arriving with my OLPC XO. I looked out the window and it was UPS ! They were delivering a thermostatic switch I ordered off of eBay.
The UPS girl had not even made it to the end [...]

I kept looking for the right photo to use on my Christmas cards this year. I didn’t find the one that captured the mood I was looking for. Well …. that was until the house down the creak decorated their dock.
As I sit here with a small space heater under my desk and Zen [...]

I’m curious, independent of the economic situation, for the gifts you are planning, how will you go about the process ? Will you mostly be giving …

hand made gifts
shop at departments stores and malls
buy direct from on-line stores
Amazon
eBay
Woot

I won’t have too many hand crafted gifts this season but I will be making a few. Currently [...]