Duct tape bags without the ugly.

Consider my sewing machine truly done and dusted. Hurrah.

Ultimate Duct tape purse

Ultimate Duct tape bag

How to run a florist shop,...

I'm stoked. Two lovely people have gone to the bother of explaining all of the issues involved in starting and running a florist shop. This gives me a blueprint for my dream of running a florist shop. Open a flower shop is an American site, written by a florist with solid industry experience. While Startup's Florist Shop page is clearly written by a business startup expert with no floristry experience. I think both sites present really solid information with perspectives that are both needed.

It would be really nice to run my own florist studio. Nice, indeed.

I just can not get enough of cardboard construction!

Here, we have an amazing collection of cardboard innnovation. I'm not sure which one is my favourite,... probably the very simple cardboard room divider because it's an idea I can easily flog off with.

Bathroom clean in 9 minutes?

The illustrious Shannon Lush claims that she cleans her bathroom in 9 minutes. I'm a cynic, but I really want this to be true. It always takes me hours to scrub the crap and mould out of my bathroom.

She also makes these claims that old pantyhose are the best cleaning cloths known to man,... it's almost enough to make me want to wear the darn things, just so there will be some old worn out ones on hand for cleaning.

Gorgeous Kids Castle made from cardboard boxes!

I am absolutely loving this idea by Mr McGroovy. It sure is groovy, Sir.

I am working on one of these for Grace's 4th Birthday in August. I've just lined up 8 refrigerator boxes thanks to a very nice lady at a refrigerator delivery company. Stay tuned for the photos of the final project,... the pic here is what it should look like, according to Mr McGroovy.

Playing with Food

I have been reading the Evil Mad Scientist's Playing with Food section and I am just overwhelmed. There is so much fun on these pages,... I just don't know which one to share with you!

There are edible googly eyes, lolly lovehearts with your own customizable messages, circuitry snacks (a nod to my previous life at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering), instructions on how to cook your hot dogs by electrocution, Pacman pappadums, the competitive sport of marguarita stacking, pretzelized pilcrows (the paragraph symbol),...

This is a ten year old boys idea of heaven and, frankly, I'm not too far behind him!

The lovely photo above is of an italian salad, Insalata Caprese, pimped with a little bit of olive to look like eyeballs. When reading the Evil Mad Scientist site's "Playing with Food" section, there is obviously no limit to their imagination. Enjoy.

Pimp your filing cabinet.

Filing cabinets have got to be one of the ugliest mo-fos in the world of furniture. They are definitely function over form. But I have found a technique for covering them with something nice like wallpaper that could turn an eyesore into eye candy. Check it out.