Origami
I’m guilty of chopping down trees for mindlessly printing paper for reading. It’s just too tiring to read long papers on the screen! To ease my guilt, I usually save up the printed pages and use the backside as scrap paper for doodling or draft work. In order to use up the piles of unused […]
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Acrylic Painting
I bought this inexpensive Acrylic Painting for Dummies kit a few years ago when I was taking night classes that explored many different art media. However, I didn’t play with the kit until today. Acrylic paint is quite versatile, it’s like oil paint when thickened but it behaves more like watercolor when diluted. I followed […]
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Indoor Plant Installation
There are 2 tiny windows in my basement. I utilized the natural sunlight from one of them for my row of succulent plants, and to utilize the other one, I created an indoor plant installation using scrap resources I found while packing my stuff earlier. The stuff includes extra plant pots, my remaining potting soil, […]
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Cardboard Plant Pot Holders
Inspired by Frank Gehry’s Wiggle Chair, I constructed a row of plant pot holders using recycled cardboard. Since the cool temperature in the basement does not provide the optimal condition for my succulent plants, I’ve also created a pipe using Pringle’s chips containers to pump warm air from my PC through the row of plants. […]
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Uncluttering – Part 2
It’s been an intensive week of uncluttering. I’ve been procrastinating about packing and clearing out my stuff for the longest time, the built-up stress even cost me a few sleepless nights. But I’m now happy knowing that I’m about 75% done. I’ll probably leave the rest of the packing till 1-2 weeks before I leave […]
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Uncluttering
After spending a couple of weeks of slowly archiving the stuff I can’t throw away because of their remembrance values, my lair looked as messy as the time I first moved in all my stuff about 2 years ago. I plan to spend this week uncluttering and clearing out stuff I don’t need anymore. Let’s […]
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