Category: Administration

I’d like to introduce a new feature of our site — our guestbook. This guestbook is a great place for you to stop by to say “Hello” or to make any general comments about the site, so please feel free to sign it. We’d love to hear from you!

Jo and I are on vacation! We’re taking a week to rest and relax with our families on beautiful Sanibel Island, in south Florida. As we’ve mentioned before, we travel here every year to enjoy the sun, pool, ocean, and calm atmosphere. Sanibel is also world reknown for its shelling beaches and […]

We’ve been asked quite a few times about where we found an item we used in one of our projects or if we can just send a piece or part for a reader to assemble the project himself. We try to link to sources for you when we can but sometimes, one project can […]

At one time or another, we’ve all ended up with a block of hard brown sugar that we can’t use. Here’s my favorite way of softening it up again:

Put your brown sugar in an airtight container.
Fold a piece of aluminum foil until it’s small enough to fit inside the container
Fold a paper towel or […]

Chica and I try to be as social as we can. We like to connect with online communities in many different formats to make friends but also to spark our creative thinking. It’s great to see what other people are doing because it might just inspire the next great C&J project. We […]

As I mentioned the other day, we’ve had some pretty significant problems with our Web host company over the last week or two, resulting in our site being completely inaccessible for much of the time. Couple that with minor problems that have occurred over the last few months, and Jo and I decided this […]