{"id":242,"date":"2008-02-10T22:25:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-02-10T22:25:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T03:25:11","slug":"mermaids-waving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/10\/mermaids-waving\/","title":{"rendered":"mermaids waving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we had coffee right after lunch and right after that we made a printer stand out of two old plywood clementine crates. Yay for reusing!<\/p>\n

First we just inverted the crates, taped them together and put the printer on them. But what had originally sent us down this path was our dissatisfaction with having the box of printer paper sitting out on top of the printer.<\/p>\n

So Jonathan got out the sharp knives* and cut a little window in each of the crates, just big enough for our box of paper, which now slides in and out like a drawer. There.s even enough space behind it to stuff in all of the extra ink jet cartridges.<\/p>\n

* I stay away from the sharp knives, because I’m a little<\/i> clumsy and I like all of my fingertips.<\/p>\n

Total time: maybe 30 minutes, from caffeine-fueled inspiration to finished product. Cost: free! (not including the psychic cost of stacking up the old clementine crates for weeks because I’m unable to throw them in the trash).<\/p>\n

And the finished product:<\/p>\n

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Today we had coffee right after lunch and right after that we made a printer stand out of two old plywood clementine crates. Yay for reusing! First we just inverted the crates, taped them together and put the printer on them. But what had originally sent us down this path was our dissatisfaction with having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}