Category: Hobbies

Deals, deals, deals! Deals all over the floor!

1 December, 2009 (08:35) | Deals, Hobbies, Holiday, Life | By: jon

We had an uber-successful shopping season this year!
About a week ago, we found a 24″ LCD full HD monitor for $170 with free shipping on the Dell Outlet website. Thanks to Twitter, I found a $20 coupon. So we got a humongous 24″ monitor for watching movies and viewing recipes while we’re cooking in the [...]

Ear Flap Hat

12 March, 2009 (20:25) | Hobbies | By: angela

This is my latest creation!  I made it on a Kniffty Knitter hat loom.  I got the pattern from this book.  I’m going to try to make the bear hat that’s on the cover next!

Seattle Startup Weekend

12 February, 2009 (09:38) | Hobbies, Things to do in Seattle | By: jon

Last weekend, we went to Google campus in Fremont for Seattle Startup Weekend 2. It was a really good time. There were 150 people there (including programmers, designers, businesspeople, lawyers, and others) all with the intention of creating and launching a business in the weekend. It was even featured on the news.
To [...]

Our secret garden

29 October, 2008 (05:07) | Hobbies | By: angela

I know, I know you’ve been dying to see it.  Our little secret garden.  Well, it’s secret no more!!!!!  Behold, our garden!

Apples!!!

20 October, 2008 (03:28) | Cooking, Hobbies | By: jon

We bought tons of apples.  Double the amount seen in the picture (we have a whole separate bag of them).  We eat them while we’re knitting our hats and watching our zillions of movies.
We have this GREAT apple corer/cutter that saves tons of time.  I think that if we didn’t have that, we wouldn’t be [...]

100 hats

6 October, 2008 (06:36) | Hobbies | By: angela

We’ve made a goal to knit 100 hats by Thanksgiving to donate to the homeless.  We found out that there are actually a lot of homeless in our county who need a way to warm up during the winter.  We’re at 24 hats and 2 scarves.  Jon is actually the faster and more devoted knitter!  [...]