0 broken fingers, 4 new countries, 21 books read, 84 selfies, 49 Instagram photos (only 3 of which were food!), 90 Crossfit classes, and 3700km travelled by foot. “You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern …
Author archives: Moses Hoyt
Bench Project
About a year ago I had a party coming up and we needed more seats in our kitchen for the guests. Instead of buying some small chairs, I figured why not make a kitchen style bench to go with my door table from an earlier project. The whole thing came together pretty easily and at …
Coffee Table Project
Recently I had the idea to make a coffee table from scratch. We needed one in our apartment and I figured the fun thing to do would be to make one. Here’s how it went down. I wanted the coffee table to include copper piping – I’ve waiting for a project that I could use …
2017 in Numbers
1 broken finger, 7 new countries, 32 books read, 63 selfies, 95 Instagram photos (only 28 of which were food!), 80 Crossfit classes, and 3669km travelled by foot. “Space I can recover. Time, never.” – Napoleon Bonaparte And now for 2018.
Door Table Project
As the first of my projects to make more furniture and household objects, I settled on the biggest need in the house at the time. A table. We wanted something long that we could use equally for working on or for hosting dinner parties around. There are admittedly a lot of off the shelf (or …
2016 in numbers
2 broken fingers, 6 new countries, 39 books read, 63 selfies, 92 instagram photos (only 44 of which were food!), 95 crossfit classes, and 3678km travelled by foot. “Let all your efforts to be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. It’s not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things …
New year new things
In somewhat typical fashion, the coming of a new year makes you reëvaluate what you’re doing a little bit more, and rescrutinise any previous goals you may have had. Substituting them for more challenging, more trackable, or maybe even more socially acceptable goals. 2016 will be the year of more, more books read, more exciting …