ripple effects

Just a few stories that make me feel like this project is worthwhile:
1. Shelley and my friend, Rachel Adams, explained the project to her coworker who is now inspired to try it with her whole family (two adults and two kids). It sounds as though they already make many socially conscious decisions and know a lot about living lightly... but that's FOUR more people who are trying this out!
2. My mom, who is a great sale shopper, went to the title nine warehouse sale recently- I think she even went so far as trying on shoes, but then she thought about us and our project and she walked away without buying a single thing.

TIny Choices

I found this blog referenced on one of the craft sites I regularly read. It's called Tiny Choices and it's maybe obviously about making small steps toward being green. It looks very cool, though I'm basing that almost entirely on the fact that they have a link to this site, which lets you put in your address and calculates the walkability of your neighborhood. Yet more fodder for me to stay in Seattle and not move to BI. My neighbhood got a 97, work's neighborhood got an 18. Very sad.

By the way, does anyone else post on here any more?

House things

I have been wanting a new work table for a while now. My dining room table has been sufficing, but besides worrying that I'm going to run the rotary blade over it, it's really too short to be a good cutting table. I have alternated between cutting on the kitchen floor, the living room floor when I lived with hardwoods, and I think I'm getting too old for it.

What I really want is a nicer, higher version of this:
But for many reasons, it's wrong. For one, it's IKEA, which Kennet will not let me spend good money at because nothing wears well. It's also $500, which isn't ideal. What it comes down to for me is that it's just too short. So that won't be happening.

I thought I remembered there was some kind of recycled house material place in Seattle and sure enough, a little google search led me here. Maddi, I saw a screen door on it and thought of you- by the way- did you put house renovation on the exempt list? You must have, but here's some more ideas. I'd love to buy a flat door (as opposed to one with designs carved into it) to make into a table top, or these window frames for hanging on a wall somewhere.