Posts filed under 'handiwork'

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New use for old boots

By kate on August 25th, 2008

Ruby has a pair of rain boots that were getting too small, so I bought her some new ones today. Ordinarily, I’d give away the old pair, but they had developed some tears because we had to pull so hard to put them on. I just hated to throw them in the trash, so I […]

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Learning about time

By kate on November 19th, 2007

Click here for a post I wrote on Ruby’s blog about a project I created to teach Ruby about the days of the week.

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I made Ruby a toy

By kate on July 25th, 2007

Lately, Ruby has been fascinated by plastic buckles, the kind you’d find on a backpack. She has spent a solid half hour intently futzing with the buckles on her booster seat. The problem is that she can eventually clip them, but can’t open them again, so she comes to me for help. After several […]

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Keeping the house

By kate on June 19th, 2007

Now that I’m home with Ruby, I see my job as caring for her and taking care of the house. As in, it’s my job, what I’m (sort of) being paid to do. I’m finding, to my surprise, that it’s a pleasure to get the chance to focus on these things instead of stuffing them […]

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No baby here!

By kate on February 13th, 2006

Steve surprised me tonight with an amazing present: a hand-sewn hat for Zippy! We’ve been looking for a nice hat for her, but hadn’t found anything in stores that we liked. He made it in secret, mostly late at night while watching hockey after I had gone to bed.
When we were in Vietnam, we heard […]

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Unwrapping presents

By kate on December 25th, 2005

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Pumpkins!

By kate on October 28th, 2005

We carved these pumpkins last night:

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belly bubbles

By kate on October 27th, 2005

It seems we may have stumbled upon a photography theme for this pregnancy:
 

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Instant Cool

By steve on October 14th, 2005

[this entry by Steve]
 
One of the new-baby ideas that Kate and I are excited about is to make all kinds of custom onesies.
 
Our plan is to buy a big pack of plain white onesies and a bunch of inkjet-compatible iron-on printer paper, and then go nuts. For example, I’m pretty sure we’ll make one […]

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Autumn Belly

By steve on October 14th, 2005

[this entry by Steve]
I was raking the leaves from our two maple trees late this afternoon, waiting for Kate to come home, when I had a good idea.

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Biding time

By kate on July 26th, 2005

When I was little, and my birthday or Christmas was coming up, I had trouble waiting through what seemed like an impossibly huge number of days. My parents came up with a cool idea that really got me through the anticipation.
They had me create a linked chain of paper loops, one loop per day. (The […]

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia!

By kate on July 7th, 2005

Here’s a little art project I did at work recently (click for a bigger image):

If you’re interested, they are radish plants and have been growing (from seeds) for five days.

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I got crafty last night

By kate on January 4th, 2005

Steve and I got a Roomba (robot vaccuum) for Christmas this year! It was lacking personality out of the box, though…
http://www.livejournal.com/users/hotchili/28410.html

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Encyclopedia Project

By kate on January 19th, 2002

I am generally fascinated by how morals are omnipresent in everyday media. (I own a CD-ROM of old educational, industrial, and promotional films from the 1930s-60s called Ephemeral Films. They’re incredibly humorous and interesting at the same time. Hundreds of them are online at the Internet Moving Image Archive.) You can see pictures of the […]

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