tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-04-21:870654 squirrelitude squirrelitude 2014-02-09T19:50:07Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-04-21:870654:9091 2014-02-09T19:33:54Z 2014-02-09T19:50:07Z public 4 <p>I'm thinking of hosting an afternoon or evening event where people bring crafts they've been meaning to work on or items they've been meaning to repair. For instance, I have some pants to patch, a wooden tortilla press to build, and a chair whose seat needs re-caning. By holding an event, I'd like to arrange for three things:</p> <ul> <li>If I bring together people who like building/repairing things, they will be able to pool knowledge and tools to mutually support each other's projects.</li> <li>There would be social pressure to actually get shit done instead of getting distracted by YouTube and the like. (There's no TV in our living room, and I would ask people not to use their pocket TVs either.)</li> <li>An excuse to have relaxed social time with friends.</li> </ul> <p>So, this post is to gauge interest and work out scheduling. Here are some prompts; answer as many or as few as make sense to you.</p> <ol> <li>Would this be of interest to you? (What about some variation that you think would be better?)</li> <li>What are your scheduling preferences? (Weeknight, weekend morning/afternoon/evening.)</li> <li>What sorts of projects would you like to bring? What sorts would you like to help with?</li> <li>Are there any tools you would need that you don't have? Are there any tools you could bring that someone else might need?</li> </ol> <p>This would be in the 2nd floor living room at our house in lower Allston. We also have a basement work area, complete with bandsaw of unknown usefulness and a random assortment of hand tools.</p> <p>I'm also sending this out as an email, but I actually don't know either the LJ/DW names or the email addresses of many of my friends and acquaintances! So I've almost certainly left out some folks by accident -- if you know a friend who didn't get this and really should, feel free to pass it along!</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=squirrelitude&ditemid=9091" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments