Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier

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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.

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Northern Lights alert

Check tomorrow night....
Flare that produced a CME, may be a pretty lights maker.

4 days ago

meaningless drivel

You know you're a permie when...

Not sure if this one belongs in "you know you are a permie when.." "you know you are a reuser when..." or in a non-exstient thread "Technology misuse in the path of a more permie lifestyle..."
BUT!!
I need to clean my dehydrator trays, been way too long, they need a good soaking. I use the round ones in my electric dehydrator. I generally throw them in the tub, but my back hurts today, I don't want to deal with that today.
AND!!
If you are a lunatic, you can take the agitator off the shaft of the kind of clothes washing machine I have, an older toploader, and then you can thread trays right down it :D
I have a washer full of dehydrator trays soaking, another stack of the other half of them to be the second batch after these soak well.

:D

5 days ago

meaningless drivel

Sewing a Tote Bag

A bunch of bags people have made were discussed here: Cloth Shopping Bags?
The ones I have made and would tell you about are in there, as are other types

:D

5 days ago

sewing

upcycle restaurant table-top convection oven?

T R Stream wrote:thank you Pearl I did see your great folding oven find while I was searching for ideas -- if I were to strip this thing down to just the exterior shell it could possibly become something similar.

I vote leave the insulation, I wish mine had it.

as is, its about 70lbs -- not immovable, but kind of a PITA

I'd vote design someplace it can just live for good, so you don't have to move it, and leave the innards in (except controls and elements etc) Having the racks easy to work with, and the insulation, will make it a lot more usable.

I think I am going to end up hauling it to my place in order to try some of these ideas - I am salvaging several things, including a dead glass door display refrigerator that is going to be a seed start mini green house right now and maybe some kind of black-tank-in-a-box water heater later

ENVIOUS!! I want one of those glass front fridges!! It'll do both of those tasks well :D

1 week ago

upcycling

upcycle restaurant table-top convection oven?

TR Stream: Check my thread on a folding oven I bought
Winnerwell Foldfast Oven question
It's about the same size, and I talked in there about things I can do with it. You might get some ideas. :D

Neat find! I'd have DEFINITELY snagged that too!!! That's my kind of fun! :D

1 week ago

upcycling

uses for soup cans

Honestly, I have done that sort of crimping with a set of large needlenose pliers and just twist.
I wanted to see what the tool looked like so if I ever see one cheap, I know what it's for.

1 week ago

upcycling

Candle frugality

Hm... I can't find pics of what I saw then. I make my collars fit tight around the shaft of the candle and have a wider part at the top, so it catches drips. Just a quick wrap it around and spread the top before lighting the candle.

1 week ago

frugality

Candle frugality

When I was young the church we went to had collars on the candles that kept them burning neatly with no drips or going off balance. I have made them with tinfoil, definitely helps. You have to keep moving it down, but that's not a deal breaker for me, I don't walk away from a burning candle for long.

Somewhere I picked up cheap or free a pack of fondue forks, and I bend one tine down into a little hook, leave the other one straight. Best wick messing with devices I have ever seen. You can push, pull, or fish it the wick up, and build little wax dams to stop off balancing.

1 week ago

frugality

uses for soup cans

Jay Angler wrote:One of my frustrations with upcycling tin cans is finding a way to crimp them

I looked them up. This is what they are used for

and a random price point off Amazon is 30.00 or so.

1 week ago

upcycling

Northern Lights alert

And that solar storm is still running. It just bounced back up as the expected coronal hole stream has hit.

The lowest latitude I heard of seeing the lights yesterday was New Mexico and Arizona, did anyone get pics? I want to see!! I'm too far south to see them.

Check again tonight, and those in Europe might have a better view, as the lights might taper down as the planet's magnetic field stabilizes after the initial shock.

1 week ago

meaningless drivel