Academic, writer, storyteller, digital creator.
I made this for our kitchen door. For the past few years owing to stagnant rainwater collecting in neighbor’s emptied swimming pools and the like, we’ve experienced a lot of mosquitoes in our area. I’m sure everyone knows how annoying even a single mozzie can be – just as you’re about to drop off to…
This old Phillips radiogram’s been in my family since new – which was back in 1964! Unlike most antique radios that look the way this one does, all shiny and still in working order, it’s had a very hard life.
A few years ago I wanted to build a custom PC case, and this is the result! It was originally an old 8086 (XT) case. For those of you who know anything about old PC’s, this was basically the grand daddy of your fancy pentiums and laptops we all use now. It was clunky, and…
I’ve often longed to have an anvil. Unlike other girls, I wasn’t so much interested in fancy shoes and handbags – I wanted an anvil! Trouble is, those things are pretty damn expensive! The alternative was to make one. Very easily said – but harder to do, right? Well, that depends. If you can find…
Home theater systems really can make a huge difference to your home – and to your bank balance if you actually buy all the accessories. Items like projector stands and screens are pretty expensive these days. As if forking out a couple grand for a cheapie projector isn’t bad enough! Most places will sell you…
Home theater systems really can make a huge difference to your home – and to your bank balance if you actually buy all the accessories. Items like projector stands and screens are pretty expensive these days. As if forking out a couple grand for a cheapie projector isn’t bad enough! This is the projector stand…
For a long time I’ve wanted to build a corner bookshelf to display books and models or collectibles, and so a couple of months ago I decided “now is the time!” The wood I used was old ceiling boards from an outside building I refurbished a few years back, and once sanded and cleaned, the…
Here’s a quick and easy hack for cat people who want to give their kitties a nice high bed from where they can survey their kingdoms! Most of us have an old grid lying around – a metal shelf from an old fridge or oven, or a barbecue grill that’s too rusty to use –…
Cats – they force you to reshape and reorganize your entire life around them, don’t they? Yup, they sure do! Anyway, so Kay and I have 3 kitties and we don’t allow them to roam, which means that we confine them to our property. That presents a whole string of very interesting little problems… Regardless…
I have this guitar that was a 7th birthday gift from my mom, so I decided it would be better to display it nicely rather than to let it just gather dust in a box or cupboard, or in a corner somewhere where it would get battered by other objects in storage. Besides, out in…