David Scrimshaw's Blog

Back in July, a City of Ottawa Forestry inspector came at my request and checked out the Siberian elms next to our house. I was particularl...

I have a new marble shelf in the window of my studio. I've been wanting to make a lot of things in the past while and when I opened a bo...

Here is the TL:DR - I made a new Corsi-Rosenthal box with a disassembled pedestal fan that is 5 decibels quieter than my old Corsi-Rosent...

Many years ago, way back when I was a solo act, I found it necessary to cut a hole in the wall in the bedroom/office area to access some coa...

It's November 2, but before I can make my devilled eggs, the monsters had to come down. I set the time lapse to go a little faster, so t...

It's late October, so time to put the monsters up on the windows. To encourage myself, I used my new lifehack of setting up the time lap...

This morning, Ottawa has a "Special Air Quality Statement" that says "High levels of air pollution have developed due to smok...

 When you and your spouse both have enormous hoards of marbles, you are always looking for new ways to display them. This morning I hit on s...

I might have thought I was safe from being surprised by things looking at me because all the googly eyes are in my pockets. But on Monday, I...

Today I was inspired by the gifted Miranda Hart to use the googly eyes to make fruit friends. Here is a taste of her show that features Fr...

Yesterday, Clo Willaerts at Bnox delivered this clip from a Saturday Night Live episode: In the evening at TV watching time, where I share ...

Don't be jealous, but I have a better home office than you do. You might have two large screens on your monitor. Maybe they're bigge...

It has been a while since I have mentioned evidence that I live a charmed life. This is partly because I've been reading about how socia...

It gives me great peace of mind that if aliens invade, my workstation has these ray guns all ready for use.

The free crockery is still available.

I'm not an expert on this sort of thing, but it looks like all that is needed is a gentle cleaning.

Can you guess where we bought our new Solair Chair?

Remember my Urban Inukshuk ? He's been inside endangering our dinner guests for almost 6 years. But now because he was day 4 on my...

Last weekend, I put together a new lightbulb shade out of burned-out Christmas lights. It is similar to the one I made for the bathroom in 2...

One of the things that has distracted me from blogging for the past two months has been all the work being done on the ScrimChateau and Mano...