Blogger: Kevin Kelley
Bio: Kevin is a DIY junkie who lives and works in Silicon Valley. He likes to design, cook, and garden in his spare time, and he aspires to be reincarnated as his own dog.
Email: kevin@mothersruin.com
Here’s a fun idea for dressing up your mantle (or a shelf for that matter) for Santa Clause — and best yet, you probably have all the ingredients and tools out right now: gift wrap, scissor, tape. If you have some hole punches, all the better, but they are not really needed. Here’s how to make it:
I used to be all thumbs when it came to wrapping presents–I saw it as a chore instead of an opportunity to be creative. Now that I take my time and work through the process, wrapping presents can be kinda soothing.
Here are some resources to help you:
Attention design geeks:Kuler is a really neat, free Flash application from Adobe that runs in your browser and helps you work out a color scheme for your projects. Best of all, you can save your color palette as a swatch in Adobe CS2.
At my very first job, I had to ensure that proper OSHA warnings were applied in context–not always an easy task, as the images and words often seemed at odds with each other. Is there anyone out there who has not mentally rewritten those signs at least once? Well, here is your chance to do it for real. I’ve been having a laugh riot making my own warnings and announcements at Online-Sign.com
I’m not a big fan of pumpkin pie — there I said it! — but I always feel a need to serve pumpkin in some guise for Thanksgiving. Here’s a way to use pumpkin (or any other squash or combination of squash), to make an amazing base for a soup or for stuffing into ravioli or for any other sort of savory thing. And yes, it does make a fantastic pie.
I think autumn is my favorite time of year. The crisp air, the smell of fires in the fireplace, the leaves, all of it makes me happy.
I try to capture some of the season for my Thanksgiving, but here in California, the leaves rarely turn red, they just gray. I checked with the Master Gardeners Program in Santa Clara County and learned that sugar maple trees are the only ones that put on those famous displays back east, and those don’t grow here…
