I made this: Honey Maid guitar

The other day my son told me he wanted a guitar just like one of the other dads at his preschool. I may one day get around to finding him a guitar but in the meantime I made him this. Hats off to Made by Joel for the idea. One modification I made was to put a second bridge at the top of the box because the "strings" were laying flush against the box. I can't wait to use up other boxes in the house to make more guitars.

Shopping for Stock Tanks:

so I can do this: http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=3376

Pickled Rainbow Chard Stems

Picked up a bunch of rainbow chard the other day, partly to make for dinner, but mostly for this. I cut way back on the sugar because 2 cups just seems like way too much and I like sour more than sweet. Not exactly sure how much sugar I used since a big clump of it fell out of the jar as I was pouring it into the measuring cup. I threw in a few pepper corns too. Now the hardest part, waiting. And waiting. Has it been three days yet?

Wine cork iPhone stand

This morning I noticed that my wife was using a cork to prop up her iPhone at the table. I don't know what inspired me but I broke out my x-acto kit and started cutting away. I shaved a little down one side so the cork wouldn't roll side-to-side and then cut a channel for the phone to sit in. It was a little trial and error but luckily we've been saving corks for a long time so I have plenty of material.