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Things are a bit weird around here
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litlnemo
Thursday, Sep 5 2019
If the site is looking a bit different it is because I installed a new theme last night. There’s still a lot of stuff that needs to be fixed, but for the most part it’s usable. There are some design weirdnesses I’m not happy with, though, but they will have to wait. I just spent…
Shelf dreaming
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litlnemo
Tuesday, Jun 25 2019
Geez, where have I been? I write blog posts all the time — but they never seem to make it past Facebook. I need to do a better job of just putting everything here as well. Anyway. So I want to put a big ol’ shelf unit on the high wall in my bedroom (the…
One way to create your own fairy garden house
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litlnemo
Thursday, May 31 2018
When you’re designing a miniature garden, little “fairy houses” are irresistible. A tiny castle or log cabin or Tudor house, the door ajar, surrounded by tiny trees and vines — there’s really nothing more magical. It’s even more magical if you have them light up in the evening. The problem, however, is that fairy garden…
Carving a fairy house from cottonwood bark
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litlnemo
Wednesday, May 30 2018
Last year I made a couple of fairy garden houses from clay, and they were pretty cool. (I will try to catch up with my posting and get them up here soon.) But I am shamed by this carved house from Bobby Duke Arts, which is just gorgeous. Check it out!
Paisley Tote Bag project
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litlnemo
Thursday, Aug 10 2017
Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted here! Well, moving across the country can do that to you. I have a lot of potential posts saved up, and I hope I will be able to get to them soon. Here’s a quick little project I just finished up last night: a simple paisley…
The Miniature Fairy Garden Project: Playing With Scale
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litlnemo
Monday, May 2 2016
Before I get to what I promised last time, I want to talk for a moment about scale. Like model railroads, fairy gardens come in many scales. The most common is 1:12 or 1″ scale, which means one inch in your miniatures is the equivalent of one foot in the real world. Other common scales…
The miniature fairy garden project: getting started
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litlnemo
Saturday, Apr 30 2016
So, you want to have a fairy garden. Before you get started, there are a few things you should consider. Some of them I remembered to consider myself; others were hard-won wisdom after I’d been working on my miniature garden for a while. No matter what, though, remember that you are doing this to make…
The miniature fairy garden project
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litlnemo
Friday, Apr 29 2016
Late last summer, I had an empty space in my yard. Under the living room window, behind the rose bushes, there used to be a ton of marigolds, which sounds nice, but they grew like weeds in that space and looked horrible after they finished blooming. So my housemate dug ’em all out, and there…
DIY an inexpensive way to hang posters and prints
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litlnemo
Saturday, Jan 23 2016
If you’ve tried to buy a frame for a large poster-sized print lately, you know how frustrating it is. Nice frames that size are ridiculously expensive. Other frames are less ridiculously expensive, but look cheap. Just tacking or taping the posters to the wall gets old once you’ve graduated from college dorm walls. I have…
The notebook obsession: Pt. 2
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litlnemo
Sunday, Jun 14 2015
(Pt. 1 is here.) I was craving one of the larger Traveler’s Notebooks at this point. One that would give me more room to draw and plan. And I liked the slightly thinner cover the originals have in comparison to the Renaissance Art journal. (Don’t get me wrong, I love it to pieces. But I…
The notebook obsession: Pt. 1
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litlnemo
Sunday, Jun 14 2015
Uh-oh. I’ve got another obsession. A few months ago, there was a post on Metafilter about something called the Midori Traveler’s Notebook. I had never heard of this. The notebooks, apparently, have a devoted cult of users who buy all kinds of accessories, customize and decorate their notebooks, and generally spend a lot of time…
New article: Four Times
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litlnemo
Wednesday, Apr 29 2015
Recently there have been some shootings in my neighborhood. I felt the need to write about it a bit. So I did. You can read the article on Medium.
Bartell’s Soda Fountain, 1922
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litlnemo
Tuesday, Jan 6 2015
Something for those, like me, who are interested in Seattle history: Bartell Drugs is still in business, but, sadly, there are no soda fountains remaining at their stores. There is no longer a store at Second and Union, but there is one a block away on Third. (This post is mirrored on my soda fountain blog,…
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Vintage design of the day
Tuesday, Jan 6 2015
Vintage design of the day
Found today on Poshmark, this package of 1920s hairpins. “Bob-or-no-bob.” Quite charming. The brand name, Sta-Rite, is also very early-20th-century, isn’t it? ($24 from seller saintsvintage.)