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  • Carmen 12:35 pm on September 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Final Bunny House 

    Well, it only took 3 weeks to finish…

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    • Emilily 1:20 pm on September 29, 2009 Permalink

      I like it! Now to get to my room, I have to go up the rabbit hole!

    • Carmen 2:55 pm on September 29, 2009 Permalink

      that sounds a little dirty but then again anything with the words up and hole in it sound dirty to me. maybe i have a problem? Anywaaaayys, no, you don’t have to go up a rabbit hole to get to your tower, the tower shaft is in a different place. i like how this comment will make little sense to anyone else reading it.

    • Emilily 9:35 am on October 1, 2009 Permalink

      heh heh, you said shaft.

      (I just figured this post hadn’t deteriorated enough yet)

    • Carmen 9:41 am on October 1, 2009 Permalink

      yeah, i’ve been waiting for you to take advantage of that perfect joke set up! high five!

  • Emilily 12:59 pm on September 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    I wont to create my OWN font! 

    I couldn’t help it, I know, that was an absolutely terrible word play. I should be ashamed…and I would be, if not for the fact that I know my sense of humor can and has done much worse.

    I was reading the ilovetypography blog this morning, and they have a few articles on creating your own font. I think I am going to give this a shot – I love drawing, fonts and words – what’s not to love about putting them all together?! Well, I can answer that – the expensive font developing software programs one must buy. So I think I will create my own font that no one else can use because it won’t be a font, it will just be a bunch of Illustrator drawings. Okay, you can use it too. I just really love the idea of creating your own font, then making a poster with it…it’s art, words, and a message on potentially so many layers.

    I’m not sure if you follow ilovetypography as fanatically as I do, but here is something I know you will appreciate: the Font Police! This is a blog devoted to bad use of fonts, improper typesetting, and just some general abuses of signage. Finally, a way for me to punish that stupid store downtown that has a sign out front in some godawful version of curlz that says: Fantasys’ Jewel’s. I mean, seriously, I don’t even know what they are trying to sell in there, it could be baby seal pelts, I simply cannot get past the horrible font (which you can’t see, obviously, in this post) or the bizarre use of apostrophes.

    FNmackinaw3Lastly, here is an interesting notebook company. You subscribe to their Field Notes collection, and receive 10 three-packs, in assorted colors, of their fine notebooks, in graph, ruled or mixed. Lovely and functional! They had me with the graph paper option, but the little color wheel in their logo sealed the deal.

     
    • Carmen 6:05 pm on September 26, 2009 Permalink

      Ok, I think we both agree that your word play doesn’t make any sense, but its ok, we can still be friends.
      I looked at all the links, I like the Field Notes the best. I have a thing for notebooks, just like you I assume. I went through the ordering process to get the three different versions of the Notes and then it told me I would have to pay $5.50 for shipping (when the 3 pack of Notes is only $9.50), suddenly I couldn’t stand the thought of paying that much for shipping. I think I’m spoiled from Amazon Prime (i love it!). So, it ended there. But I admit they are very pretty and I want some.

  • Carmen 9:41 am on September 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Bunny Condiminium… 

    So, this is pretty much what I did all weekend – construction of a high-rise bunny tower. Not sure what to call it yet – bundiminium? buntowers? bun housing complex? I don’t know, let me know if you think of something good.  Anyways, its taken alot of planning and many trips to Home Depot.  And finally we have it up, not quite finished because I still have to install the tile floors!  For your viewing pleasure… the ongoing project….

    the blueprints!empty-closetfirst

    the blueprints!                                           This is where it will be installed.        In the beginning…

    chiselingin-progresssunset

    Check me out workin that chisel!         …the progress….                         and break time.

    final

    The final installation!    Bunny approved!

    It has four levels, each bunny (or pair of buns) gets their own level and they’ll be able to view their kingdom out of the window all day.  Pretty sweet!

     
    • Carmen 9:42 am on September 8, 2009 Permalink

      By the way, I realize we are totally weird to have done this for our pet rabbits.

    • Emilily 10:27 am on September 8, 2009 Permalink

      Watership Towers.

      (Hmmm, interesting….I see you draw the line of “totally weird” somewhere between five pet rabbits and building them a tiled, multi-level home?)

    • Ma 3:33 pm on September 8, 2009 Permalink

      I am kinda curious thou… where in the Bunny Bunglow is the bidet? And do they now get a private chef to go along with their new crib?

  • Carmen 4:06 pm on August 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    new project? 

    What do you think about adding sequins to an old pair of shoes as a craft project?

    this picture was taken by garance dore  - she's so goooood.

    this picture was taken by garance dore - she's so goooood.

     
    • Emilily 1:08 pm on August 10, 2009 Permalink

      Well, it looks gorgeous, but also like a lot of work! I wonder if you could do something similar with krazyglue…

  • Emilily 11:27 am on August 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Galley Kitchen 

    Here is the long overdue kitchen shelf project. (Every time I look at these pictures, I am amazed not so much at what I have done with my kitchen, but more so with the fact that I can do anything at all in there.)

    This is the BEFORE shot. And yes, this is my entire kitchen.

    This is the BEFORE shot. And yes, this is my entire kitchen.

    The shelf set I installed is from IKEA. I do not remember what series is was, but I think it was named something Swedish for “it should be illegal to call something a kitchen if it has no oven.”

    There was actually a preliminary step between the BEFORE view and Step 1 that involved me using a hammer, a magnet, and my spidey sense to try to find the studs in the wall.

    I also skipped one of the crucial intermediate steps: drink a whole pot of coffee and consider making another one…

    And voila, shelves!

    friggin horizontal line

    Step 1

    Step 1

    Step Two

    Step 2

    Step 3

    Step 3

    friggin horizontal line

    I really just opens up the whole room, right?

    I really just opens up the whole room, right?

     
  • Carmen 4:21 am on July 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    been thinkin ’bout shelves 

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    We’ve been trying to find the right kind of shelves that will fit in the firehouse and I think we have a winner.  Check out these shelves Max saw today in an architect’s office.  Aren’t they lovely?

     
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