Learn to Spin!

July 2, 2015

Events

...r friend Anne Schwartz is teaching some classes this month at the Keystone Art Space on San Fernando Road. In this fun two-hour class you will learn the basics of spinning yarn on a drop spindle, and will receive your own spindle and fiber to keep! This is a great way to start spinning because you’ll learn the basics – drafting fiber, adding twist and plying yarn – in a way that can be easily controlled, and using an inexpensive tool! Even if your...

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How to Fix a Sash Weight

Mr. Homegrown

June 25, 2015

Design

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...n freely and, since this is Los Angeles, they knock together loudly in an earthquake letting us know the rough magnitude and whether we should duck under a table. When we moved into the house nearly every sash cord was busted and none of the windows functioned. Repairing these old windows is as lost an art as Roman augury. Most homeowners and house flippers here throw out the old windows and replace them with the sort of cheap sliding aluminum por...

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Summer Solstice Celebration at Holy Nativity

Mr. Homegrown

June 18, 2015

Events

...The open house will feature garden tours, oven explanation (the oven mud is now drying), highlights from other campus organizations like Teri Roseman’s LiveYoga Wellness, Patricia Rose’s Fresh-food-in-a-flash cooking classes, the Food Forward gleaning program, art tours by Steve O’Laughlin, and much more. Steve’s band will be performing 12-1, and pancakes will be served from 9-11. Come join us and see all the new goings-on! Summer Solstice Open H...

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Extreme Measures: Squirrel Proofing Your Fruit Trees

Mr. Homegrown

May 27, 2015

Fruit Trees, Gardening, Pests

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...on top of the situation this year. Squirrel stew. I just don’t have the heart for this option. Robert Irwin, “Two Running Violet V Forms, UCSD” photo by Tktktk – Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. I think there’s a way to make aesthetically pleasing fruit tree cages. Crazy idea: what if they were as carefully crafted as Robert Irwin’s running fence piece at UC San Diego? It’s too late to fence the trees in our own garden, b...

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Let’s Bring Back Picture Rail

Mr. Homegrown

November 30, 2018

Design

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...ng. Put it up and pick up some picture rail hooks and you’re ready to hang art. Picture rail hooks come in a variety of sizes and we had to test a few to find the right fit. The picture rail hooks fit standard, rounded picture rail better than my DIY effort, but my improvised picture rail works okay. New picture rail and crown molding in our bedroom. The living room of our house already had picture rail so I just had to add it to the other rooms o...

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