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I’m proud to announce the launch of a new site, Tanglewood Turnings.

This site will allow artists to sell their products through the site as well as give people the ability to create their own custom build products with our one of a kind custom product builder. The custom product builder allows you to select a series of components that will make up your product and builds out a rough representation of your product right on the screen.

I’ve been playing with this concept for almost 5 years now (that’s a topic for a different post that I’m working on still – “When is it time to launch?”) and have finally decided that it is time to stop writing code for the sake of writing code and launch the site.

Please take a minute to check out my new site. Drop me an email if you find any issues or have any questions or feedback.

A family friend was out at a local park with her children and nephew just before Thanksgiving when her nephew, Zach, stepped over a log and was bit twice by a 6+ foot Canebrake rattlesnake.

He has been in the hospital ever since.

The Post and Courier is keeping up with his progress so I’ll not go into those details. Here is a link to one:
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/dec/08/snakebite-victim-improves/

He has had over 40 vials of anti-venom throughout this ordeal, each of which can cost upwards of $10,000. He has been hospitalized in intensive care for nearly a month now and has been on breathing support.

Needless to say, the medical costs associated with this can be huge. I’d ask that if you can give anything, even if it is just a couple bucks, you visit the button below and do so. The button below is a PayPal account set up in Zach’s name. You don’t have to have a PayPal account and can use any major credit card for payment.

Thank you in advance for your support.

For Christmas we were looking at a refrigerator to go with our kids’ play stove/microwave/sink combo. We looked around a bit and kept finding that they were way more expensive than they needed to be and would still take some work to get them to match the set we have.

So my wife started looking around and came across http://ana-white.com/, which had plans for a pretty simple play fridge. The one she had was a little bit too small and didn’t quite match what we have already, but seeing the plans made me realize how easy it was to put together a simple set of plans that did match what we have.

So I drew up some plans, which are available from the link below. The fridge turned out great. It matches the existing set in size, color, and style. The kids love it. The total cost was around $50 but would have been even less had I not gone to a home store for all my lumber.

Here are some pics (click for full sized image):

You can download the step by step plans here:
Play Fridge Plans

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