Projects

Heather has more hobbies than time

These are some projects I would like to work on in no particular order.

Breadboard remote control

Create a remote control that I can use to physically interact with lights and other home automations.

Split pea experiments

It would be very cool to recreate this experiment. Keep a lab journal. Write observations. Observe Mendel's rule in action.

Bread cutter

This one is probably either unsafe or unsavory. But I would like to see the look on Spencer's or Emma's face when I unveiled it. Perhaps use in charcuterie some day for the baguettes.

Mailbox

My current mailbox lets in rain and snow, and is hard to access for the postman. I would like to make a cute but functional mailbox that I can mount on a good solid wooden post in the lawn somewhere.

One thought was to make the mailbox in the shape of my house, but in miniature, but I do want it to be functional and I don't know how well I could work that. I suppose I don't really actually need to make all the interior structure, it can be hollow and just hold letters. Perhaps the roof swings off or something.

Spaghetti

I would like to make a scrumptious spaghetti monster that kind of seems like he is a little guy. His outsides are made of garlic bread, his insides, spaghetti with red sauce. Udon noodles are infinitely superior to spaghetti, so probably those.

He is eaten by ripping him open. Steam comes pouring out, and perhaps, a tiny, distant wail. Was that.. just the sound of the dough being rent? The squeak of the noodles? Surely not, the soul leaving the body..? You have made him, you are his creator, you have imbued mere bread and sauce with Life, and then you have Taken it Away.

spaghetti guy his guts are pasta his flesh is garlic bread A fimo recreation of the spaghetti monster
On the left, see my initial idea for what he would look like -- and on the right he has been beautifully brought to life in clay by Lindsay!

What do I do with all these oranges?

As part of our fall party, Spencer wanted to make mulled wine, and for this he needed a single orange. He went to Costco and bought a sack of 16 oranges. In despair, I found a dear woman on Instagram who made garlands of orange peels. Very cute idea. I got some tiny cookie cutters and spent an evening carefully peeling and cutting oranges. I used some orange cotton thread and a thick needle to string each orange into place. I think they turned out very cute!

After a few days the oranges start to try and curl, but I think they look very festive and nice all the same.

I think I'll also use this to make garnish for the bar in the future, it's really very cute and quick to make a whole bunch of them.

Cookie-cuttered oranges on a cutting board; some have been used as garnish in an old fashioned.
An orange garland in the midst of creation; star-shaped orange peels are being strung up at intervals on an orange thread. Several completed orange garlands hang from the stairs.