Family Update

This week, J completed the last of his Get Ready, Get Set and Go For the Code books. We’re going to be going through the next part of the series. We also got Math-U-See Primer which sounds like it will be a piece of cake for him. That’s good: building proficiency will come later, we’re [...]

They Make Pretty Cute Dolls

I think so, anyway. How about Jaime Hyneman and Adam Savage amigurumi? Image and dolls belong to Paperheroes.net.

Kid’s Republic

Doesn’t this look like a Karim Rashid design ran into a unicorn and turned into a children’s bookshop? This is a bookstore in Beijing put up by a Chinese publisher, Poplar. I saw this on Bloesem Kids.

Blueberry Cobbler

2008-08-18 Cobbler Originally uploaded by Phisch I came across a recipe for cobbler that claims to be from the Salt Lick here in Austin, TX which has great brisket and even better peach cobbler. I modified it for blueberries which we purchased at Costco. Here goes: Batter: 1 stick melted butter (melt while oven is [...]

Your Soles, Your Way

If you ever wanted to have just the right sort of casual shoes to match your own shirt—by own I mean you made it on your own—then head to Zazzle. For $60 and up, depending on the styles, you can create your own custom graphics and have them print it on canvas sneakers. They have [...]

Lovecraft’s Chocolate

Thanks for posting this at Lake Neuron. McSweeney’s has brought you more fun than a net full of c’thulu: a sampling of H.P. Lovecraft’s days as a writer for the Whitman’s Sampler catalog. Here’s one for you: Dark Chocolate Fudge Dark! All-encompassing, eternal darkness! Human eyes cannot penetrate the stygian blackness of this unholy confection! [...]

Work + Walk = [good kind] Tired

IMG_7498- Originally uploaded by Phisch If interested, more photos here. Busy Saturdays are the best because they make the weekends seem so much longer than they really are. Don’t you think? This morning, the boys left me at church at the bright and early hour of 8 a.m. I volunteered to help make curtains to [...]

Backyard Baseball

One of our local CCM stations sponsors free family movies each week for a few weeks each summer. The kids and I have seen a few and one that left its mark was “Everyone’s Hero,” a movie I had never heard of. You probably have? The one about the kid who tries to find Babe [...]

2008 Fall Knitscene

I love Sea Tangles, but hubby says “meh” to that one. Instead, I found my latest Knitscene turned to a page showing the Ahlstrom Bodice by Lou Schiela. Would you believe it? Hubby told me “I like that. You have to knit that.” I *have* to. Yarn [window] shopping time! I don’t know if I [...]

Laminin

Of course you want to know what this little cell adhesion molecule is for and why you should care. Let Louie tell you (he explains towards the end). No doubt this video was taken during a Passion conference. My sister was an official photographer for the event, aimed at high school and college aged kids, [...]

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