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The Blog’s New Direction

With a New Year come resolutions, and I’ve noticed my blog has taken on a life that is much greater than handmade things.  I’ve known this moment was coming for a while and the start of a fresh year seems

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What’s Handmade These Days?

Have I made anything by hand recently?  Why yes, thanks for asking.  I made a repair.  Plumbing, to be precise.  After a day at work where our office toilets stopped flushing down and began flushing up, causing our alley and

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Handmade Plumbing

The spirit of this blog is the joy you can get from creating something with your own two hands.  Whether it’s food, crafts, art, or something more mundane, like the plumbing between the pool pump and pool heater.  Last week

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Handmade Gifts

I love the idea of homemade gifts but really I don’t know how to make many things well.  I tried to make a bookcase for my wife and with the uneven routed edges and sloppy sealant it basically looks like

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Writing by Hand

Last week I was given a gift, something simple yet very luxurious:  a pen.  It’s not a chew-on-the-cap plastic straw Bic, I’m talking a real pen.  A Cross pen. This is the first real pen I’ve owned and it has

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