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Week 17: Eating with Chopsticks
We decided to take a little more of a lighthearted approach this week. We were excited that we had a brand new set of rainbow chopsticks courtesy of my grandmother, and wanted lots of reasons to use them! For eating meals at … Continue reading
Week 16: The Design Manifesto
We’re both designers, and we care a lot about how design is done. We decided that it would be pretty swanky to sit down and write a manifesto about design. We started by sitting down with a whiteboard and brainstorming … Continue reading
Double Dare: Back to Basics
Welcome to our second Double Dare! This week we doubled on two (admittedly unrelated) activities: trying out a supertaster test and building a blanket fort. For those of you not in the know, a supertaster is someone who is extra … Continue reading
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Week 13: Rocking with Teenyboppers
Ok, we’re skipping around a bit. It’s been particularly chaotic in the last couple of weeks because both of us have been gone so much (between us we’ve been in Portland, San Francisco, New York, and Pennsylvania in the last … Continue reading
Week 12: Kickstarting Monopoly
I’ve always wanted to back a project on Kickstarter. For those who aren’t familiar, Kickstarter is a website to crowd source funding for awesome projects. If a project gets the required amount of funding before the deadline, it goes through. … Continue reading
Double Dare: The Snowcation
(we missed weeks 8 and 9, so we’re doubling up in weeks 10 and 11 to catch up) We got behind, and it was terrible. But we’re making up for it! This weekend we joined our friend Dana on a … Continue reading
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Week 7: No Social Media!
So, we’re a bit behind. Forgive us. Nikki had the stomach flu, Ellen went to Michigan, things were generally chaotic, etc, etc. Don’t fear! There will still be 52 awesome things for project 52, even if we end up condensing … Continue reading
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Week 6: Ignite!
I know, I know. I promised you an update on our week without social media, and we will post about that next week (we’ll even continue to abstain in the meantime). But this week was Ignite Seattle 13, and how … Continue reading
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Week 5: Sushi
We had a special guest visitor for this week’s episode of Leon’s Flat’s new things. Garrett flew in to visit us from Milwaukee, and he was very interested in making sushi. So, we had an excellent sushi purchasing and making … Continue reading
Week 4: People-Watching
Week four found us people watching in Trabant Coffee & Chai in the University District. We started out watching one thing: what do people do when they enter the cafe? We focused on if they knew where the counter was, … Continue reading