Inexpensive ways to enliven your hours outside of the cubicle walls.
 | Chop Talk Home chefs can use this new Moleskine recipe journal ($20 at Blick Art Materials; to order, call 212-533-2444) to document recipe hits and misses. |
 | Dream Weaver This mini loom weaving kit ($32) comes with everything you need to make one of two colorful projects. All you provide is the finger time. |
 | Write On Hell bent on bringing back the lost art of letter writing? Encourage your pen pals to write back with embossed stickers (fifteen for $10) that bear a cute, guilt-inducing poem. |
 | Solar System You still have that cyanotype picture you made in sixth grade earth science somewhere. Now make a T-shirt with this solar-powered fabric kit ($20). |
 | Sprout This Urban gardeners will delight in the sixteen varieties of heirloom seeds (spotted trout lettuce, calico popcorn) in this Hudson Valley Seed Library set ($52), featuring work from NY state artists. |
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