Rainbow and curves
From Pixels to Pencils June 27, 2016
I worked with George and designed the concrete walkways and exhibit space for the Oahu Urban[…]
Habitat for Humanity framing
From Pixels to Pencils June 2, 2016
In the odd space of time between graduation and the beginning of my job at the[…]
Wahine like building
From Pixels to Pencils May 4, 2016
2016 National Women’s Build sponsored by Lowe’s and Honolulu Habitat for Humanity was held on Saturday,[…]
Concrete take three
From Pixels to Pencils June 25, 2015
What’s more fun than pouring concrete on a Wednesday afternoon? Very little. Actually, showing up at[…]
Pour it on
From Pixels to Pencils June 18, 2015
Yes it looks pretty. No it didn’t turn out right. We were a bit disappointed when[…]
First pour
From Pixels to Pencils June 13, 2015
Six months after the beginning of the Spring 2015 semester, I finally got to pour concrete.[…]
Reclaimed wood dog feeder station
From Pixels to Pencils May 31, 2015
“Are you still working on that?” Yes. I’m pretty sure that I took much longer than[…]
One semester later
From Pixels to Pencils May 17, 2015
I was so excited to take another class photo at the end of the second semester in[…]
One down, three to go
From Pixels to Pencils December 12, 2014
Being the last day of instruction for our first semester in the carpentry program, I gathered the kids for a class photo. It was hard to believe that three and a half months had passed.
Sawed off
From Pixels to Pencils October 10, 2014
Our first real project for carpentry class was making a sawhorse. It sounded simple enough as[…]
Shopped
From Pixels to Pencils August 25, 2014
The last time I was surrounded by so many power tools was in 8th grade woodshop which[…]
Oh the Humanity
From Pixels to Pencils June 10, 2014
When someone puts a callout for “no construction experience necessary”, you know I’ll be there.
In life the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right. Arianna Huffington
Beige basement walls suck
From Pixels to Pencils, Remodeling May 11, 2014
So… this is what our basement looked like before we moved in. Not bad! It had a relatively new gas fireplace and this custom built-in on the far wall. I decided that this would be half office / half mancave space. Thinking that the built-in was the coolest thing ever (I’m from Hawaii where only rich people have custom built-ins), I planted my office on the far end. For the next 1.5 years, I couldn’t figure out why the space never quite worked.
It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot