I know, you’re thinking of that weird European store with the asexual models, but I’m talking about bread proofing baskets. These have been on my wish list for a long time but have always been something of a luxury. Sure,…
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Pizza, Done Right
Here’s the first pizza I ever made, from stem to stern, crust to toppings, all handmade: I still think about the taste: peppery olive oil, fragrant thyme, and the pleasing bite of a partially charred onion. What made it so…
Product Design
I imagine a conversation like this: “Sven, we need a grease spatter guard design by the end of the week.” “Ja sure. What is a grease spatter guard?” “You know, you’re frying kippers and you don’t want the oil to…
Just a Regular Morning
5:35 am [soft crying] “Mama…mama…” Since Mama is sleeping, I get up to check on Toddler Harbat. With concern I see that 5:35 is about 45 minutes from my wake-up time. Unless this is something quick to solve, I won’t…
Self-Reliance or Staged Theater?
When I first saw promos for The Colony, a new reality show on the Discovery channel, I was excited. Here would finally be the ideal show about handmade things. If you haven’t heard about it, the premise is that there’s…
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Podcast Update
Now it’s official: the podcast is on iTunes! In the iTunes store, search for Handmade Parenting and you’ll find it. I did some searches for “super awesome fantastic” and “totally incredibly mind-blowing” but they didn’t lead to the podcast. Soon…
How to Destroy Your Bathroom, Pt. 3
I really ought to rename this series “How to Rebuild Your Bathroom”. That’s right, Uncle F#@k-Up, as the spinmeisters say, is trending upward. Demolition of the bathroom finished on Friday afternoon with the removal of a nasty clogged pipe. How…
An Ode to My Daughter’s Hair
When my daughter was born her hair was like spider silk. It couldn’t be combed or styled, just smoothed down in a rough dome shape. By the time she turned one, her hair wasn’t thick enough to hold even the…
How to Destroy Your Bathroom, Pt. 2
Gentlemen, listen to your wives. Last Friday I was reviewing my weekend plans: buy a sledgehammer, destroy the sink cabinet and countertop, clean up the mess, and draw Xs through the next five hundred weekends that I’d be doing the…
Simple Friday
Today’s the day for including all the flotsam pictures that are too good to miss but don’t necessarily belong together. Just like [insert snarky political comment here]! Hey-o! First we’ve got Toddler Harbat opening the first corn of the season…
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