Fun Gadgets
Gettin’ Techie With It
I may use the “gettin’ jiggy with it” substitute post title waaay too much. One thing that is super fresh and new though, is my Twitter page.
Now, if you’re on the tweeter – I do encourage you to follow me @amy_whited . Then I can follow you and we’ll be best friends. It will be fun.
I’m still getting the hang of it all, but the goal of the new Twitter account is not to just link up blog posts. In fact, I don’t really plan to link our blog to it at all as much as I plan to just take photos of even more crap that I want to buy, things that I’m eating and general musings on life. Fascinating right? Trust me it will be amazing.
So if you cannot get enough (mom!) please consider taking our relationship to the next level.
Oh, and I am also the last person on the planet to install Instagram on their phone. It’s my second app to download after the flashlight. It seems to be going pretty well.
Here’s my desk at work.
Here’s our new hydrangeas. Future post spoiler alert!
I got those backwards didn’t I?
True Love
is digging your husband’s reusable K-Cup filter out the trash can. At 9 o’clock at night.
Even if you are the one who put it there.
Note to Self
Wait saw to stop spinning before you set it down
AND don’t set it down (still spinning) on its own power cord (something tells us you don’t need electrician training to realize this)..
Or you’ll end up here.
Just like we did last weekend.
I won’t tell you which one of us accompished such a thing – but her name starts with a A and ends with an Amy Whited.
Robots
There are two new ones in our house.
One prints our Groupons and the other keeps Chad from running off the road in the mornings.
They were each purchased following the gift-card-palooza that was Christmas for us. So thanks family.
Kickstarter
So it appears that the wife and I are a little behind on this, based on the 150,000+ Facebook “likes” it’s received, but Kickstarter is a little something that may revive your faith in the internet community. So of course we thought we’d share.
Say you have a book you’d like to publish? A company to start? A fashion line to create? A movie to make? Write up your project on Kickstarter, set your investment goal and let your new fellow Kickstarters pledge their support to help get you off the ground.
And even better, your Kickstart friends don’t become shareholders or owed financial incentives. It’s actually not allowed. Instead you can offer them perks like a signed copy of your book or one of the first lamps you build. Things like that.
If you’re like us and project-less you can can always join the fun by pledging your support to a worthy cause. You can pledge as little as a dollar to some projects. Here are some of the neat-o projects proposed in Durham right now.
What project would you start?
Let the Games Begin
So I’ve been hiding something from you guys for a few weeks now.
It is this.
Flirting turned to full-fledged committment. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you earlier. I should have, I just wasn’t sure how to say it, or how you’d take it. Would you think I was crazy? Overly ambitious?
Luckily it was achievable on a budget and with free shipping from Amazon which made it feel much less serious of a move.
See the one I bought here, it’s a Brother model and cost only $152. It is computerized and threads really easily. This is key since the whole threading thing was what kept me up at night for a week – to the point that I didn’t even take it out of the box for days out of fear that I would insert myself into a never-ending battle to set the thing up that would only end in tears and frustration.
Shockingly that was not the case. Probably because I was so freggin’ awesome at Home Economics. I’m not gonna say that I melted kitchen utensils and burned myself with the hot glue guns, but I was pretty good. Ask Mrs. Purpura she’ll tell you.
I even made something.
It took a million hours the first time but it’s a hand towel - or a tea towel for my classy readers. And you’re correct a tea towel is just a piece of nice absorbent fabric with the four edges hemmed under. Perhaps it only took 999,999 hours.
And once I got the hang of it I made five more. The blue pomegranate fabric came from the clearance section of Mill Village Outlet in Raleigh, and the white floral fabric came from a clearance table-cloth at World Market. I just wacked it up.
Don’t worry I don’t have an unhealthy obsession with tea towels now or anything. I actually still lurv my Ikat versions from here. These six got wrapped up and shipped to my younger sister in Alabama so that she can sell them on my behalf at a crafts party she’s hosting at her house this weekend. Yep we’re definitely related. It’s for a great cause too, all her proceeds are being donated to St. Jude, see why here.
Doesn’t a crafts party sound like fun? Maybe we should all have one here this fall.
Oh, and don’t forget we have a jewelry giveaway that stays open until midnight tonight, we’ll announce the winner on Monday. Enter right here.
