Via kottke.org: I may totally have to try this.
Cheap screen printing tutorial
I remember sort of enjoying screenprinting T-shirts in High School art class… and this would be so much cheaper than iron-on transfers for my photo printer! (And so much more fun!)
Now I have to come up with a creative T-shirt design… gah!
As Erk reminded me a few days ago, Aaron and I moved into our house exactly one year ago Monday.
I still wish I’d kept the digital camera handy during the move, so I could have taken pictures of the perfectly-packed 24-foot giant U-Haul, or the inside of our empty apartment, or the all-volunteer moving crew at their complimentary Easystreet lunch.
I do have some other pictures of interest, though:
Our house, at inspection time (February 2004)
The aftermath of getting the U-Haul stuck in the mud across the street from our new house
Our living room, after we got the furniture in place, one year before we got the widescreen TV
So, yeah. Happy one year in the house to us! (Only 29 more years of house payments to go…)
Courtesy of Sheryl, for a whopping $800: a 55″ Mitsubishi widescreen TV. Not pictured: Kenwood surround sound system (ProLogic).
Anyone who knows how big that damn orange lamp is can truly appreciate the scope and magnitude of our new purchase. Holy shit.
I’ve gone entirely too long without posting a cute Mei pic. So, here you go: Mei looking all sleepy on the chair in the living room, sometime last month.
OMG. I just made a batch of banana candles, and now the whole ground floor of my house smells like banana pudding. Oh, yum.
Once my test votive sets up, it’ll be time to burn that along with my coconut test candle to see if, together, it really would smell like banana cream pie. If it does… Oh, yeah. New candle flavor on the menu.
Edit, Friday Night: I’m burning the votive I made for myself, and it has kind of an odd chemical/medicinal smell. That’s really disappointing, because it has such a great cold scent. Ah, well. That’s why I buy one-ounce samples instead of huge vats o’ fragrance oil.
On the subject of candlemaking, I was just thinking… Does anyone else have a tendency to burn out (very punny) really fast on hobbies? Not entirely, I suppose, but…
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