On June 4 @ 6:53 pm, my wife gave birth to our first child, Calvin Owen Miller. He weighed 7lb. 10oz. and 20in. long, and, in my unbiased opinion, is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, next to my wife.
I have posted a few pictures in a couple different sets on Flickr if you would like to check it out. Below is the birth announcement I made using Inkscape.
I don’t know if I’ve ever talked to someone who said they really had more storage space than they could use. Closets often bulge to the seams until the garage inevitably ends up sacrificing its vehicular storage capacity for our ever increasing collection of stuff. If the garage is the only storage option, it can be used much more efficiently than just stacking stuff in the corner. One solution I have found, especially for items not accessed on a regular basis, is to use overhead storage. This gets things up and out of the way allowing the precious floor space to be reclaimed.
When we started talking about doing the workstation the first thing I wanted to do what to draw it out on paper. Most drawings I do are on computer, but there is something about using pencil and paper that I enjoy. There is a freedom that you can’t get with a computer. The downside is that manual drawings Continue reading
Amy and I have decided on a new project for the house and I thought it would be a good one to document so here goes. We currently do not have a good place to pay bills, stash the mail, write messages, etc and we’ve been trying to come up with an easy, economical solution. After thinking about buying or building (a lot of work on my part) a secretary desk which would have to take up space in the living room, we came up with an idea for the kitchen. There is currently an unused space at the end of our kichen cabinets next to our dining table so we decided to make use of it by Continue reading
