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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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  • Make 17: Wall stencil!

    It’s time to move ahead with the bathroom steampunk project. I got the walls painted during the snowpocalypse, so tonight after dinner I gave stencilling a shot/ I…

  • Make 16: quick henna

    Molly wanted a simple henna design. I had ten minutes before I had to go teach, so I did a quick and simple one. I…

  • Make 15: Altoids tin art

    This is a picture of the Dadant family. They have been in the beekeeping business for seven generations now, selling Langstroth hive boxes and bee supplies to beekeepers…

  • Make 14: another steamer trunk drawer.

    Tonight I finished the second drawer for my steamer trunk. Like the first drawer, the  inside and out, bottom and sides are mod-podged with old herbalist…