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Drawing, drawing, drawing

31 Saturday Aug 2013

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Blog picI draw lots of printable instruction pages for my online courses, which means spending hours each day pushing that 2B pencil. So what so I do when I need a break? I draw. I can’t help it — it’s my favorite thing to do!

 

On the road…

11 Saturday Aug 2012

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Gardening on the cheap: Zip Tie Trellis

25 Sunday Sep 2011

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creativity, dogs, gardening, Val Webb

Despite years and years spent in Girl Scouts, I never mastered the art of knot tying. Sheepshank, bowline, fisherman’s hitch — no matter which one I attempted, the end result was always something that resembled a very large, critically injured spider. So this week, when I needed a bamboo trellis along one end of a raised bed, I tried to think of ways to avoid lashing anything together.

The solution? Nylon zip ties, officially known as cable ties. They are durable, weatherproof, and can last for years. They are also cheap — around $3 for a package of 50 — and if you can’t find them in your local hardware store, you can get them at Amazon. (The traditional material for this purpose, waxed twine, starts around $10 per roll and requires six feet of twine for each knot.) I used 8″ black ties, which fit nicely around thumb-thick stalks of bamboo with a couple of inches left over to pull tight and snip off. They look like this:

One more tip: be sure to have your bamboo beagle-tested for strength and durability.

Take your dog to work

26 Friday Jun 2009

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Sketchbook: Cloudy, with a chance of rain

26 Monday Jan 2009

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