Pushing Our Personal Boundaries
Pushing Our Personal Boundaries
Building an Animatronic Ghost: From Idea to Working Mechanism Sometimes a project starts with a very simple idea: Make a ghost slowly rise from behind a tombstone—and then disappear again. That simple idea turned into a much more interesting engineering project than I expected. I wanted to build a lightweight Halloween ghost that could rise […]
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It has been a long time since I mentioned my lavender. I planted 6 plants of Egerton Blue, which is one of the many varieties of Lavandula Angustifolio in 2021. The first year was not a true production year, the plants were very small. To promote plant growth, I should have just cut all of
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The best time to harvest lavender for oil distillation is June and early July. I of course did not buy my still in June.
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Jean Edwards of Edwards Center, Inc. asked me if I would be interested in teaching crafting classes to some of their residents. I was thrilled to be asked and decided on a paper bead earring project for Mother’s Day. I was given two afternoons, Saturday and Sunday, at the community center with different students on
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Greeting cards are one of my favorite projects to work on…not that send out a lot of cards to remember birthdays and anniversaries. Lately, I have moved from discarded grade-school readers to paper napkins. There is something so satisfying when you show the card to someone and they express how surprised they are that a
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Christmas is my favorite time of year to design and make treat boxes. Treat boxes are usually filled with candy, but there are occasions when I insert a non-candy item in the box, such as; small bubble wands, tiny stuffed animals on a keychain, slap bracelets, or tiny notebooks. Over the last year, I have
It starts with a still … When I decided that essential oil distillation sounded like a fun hobby to get into I knew that a still was one of the first decisions. After a fair amount of research, I decided on a copper one for the excellent heat transfer characteristics. One of the companies that
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