Country Home Magazine had a Put a cork in it section with instructions on how to convert an old tin can into a stylish organizer using cork. Two other suggestions for recycling old wine corks that I hadn’t thought of were:
Start a fire – Soak a bunch of old corks in rubbing alcohol and arrange them on charcoal, then fire up the grill.
Door Stopper – Slice a cork in half lengthwise and glue it to the back of a door to protect your walls.
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Homemade Cork Board
Week 5
The One Laptop per Child Project has a special Give 1 Get 1 Program starting November 12th for a limited time. Their mission is to provide a means for learning, self-expression and exploration to the nearly two billion children of the developing world with little or no access to education. The sturdy hardware, software and interface are all designed specifically for a child and many activities for the laptop are the result of a collaboration of over 2,000 programmers from all over the world. In addition, they are solar and have hand cranks. A donation of $200 will pay for and deliver one XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, and in November you can get one for yourself and have one delivered to a child for $399. I really want to check one out, but at the very least donate one to such a great cause.
If you are looking for a place to recycle CDs and DVDs you can send them to the CD Recycling Center of America. They have solutions for individuals, small and large businesses.
We went to an exhibit called The Art of the Needle and I was really taken with a quilt by a woman named Ida W. Beck from Easton, PA. From afar it didn’t seem that unique, but the detail work was amazing. It is clear that it took many year to plan and make this quilt that includes many different alphabets, flowers, months and seasons. Ida W. Beck lived from 1880 – 1967 and was described as a shut-in who specialized in needlework and monogramming. She donated this work to the Shelburne Museum collection in 1955. The center of the quilt is a monogram that contains all letters of the alphabet except for the letter I. The Posy Collection sells a needlework design of the center portion of the quilt.
The Out of this World (1964) journey into the future on YouTube features many different variations of the Frigidaire Flair. At the end a woman daydreams of the ultramodern kitchen being used around the world and it is obvious that nobody had their politically correct radar on back in the sixties.
Here is a fun Flickr tool called Spell with Flickr that lets you type in a word or sentence and it spells it with photographs. If you don’t like the first letter it gives you click on the letter and you can scroll through until you are happy. I may use this to make some cool signs for the walls at school.
The Frigidaire Flair discussion that was previously at Obvious Diversion has moved to Frigidaire Flair | Google Groups. It appears to have low activity, but there are over 30 members. Also, I’m not sure if I ever mentioned that I have a list of all the useful Flair websites that I have found on del.icio.us.
I am a bit addicted to looking at the search terms that bring people to this blog. The other day I found that someone typed kissing shadows into a search engine and was directed to my Ecuador Post. Seems like someone should write a song called Kissing Shadows. If only I had some musical talent.
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