Now that we are moving on in to warm Spring weather (in theory. This is the Midwest after all. We can experience all 4 seasons in one w...

One day after refilling the conditioner in this hanging soap and shampoo Dispenser , The pump bottle refused to snap into place, lurched fr...

For some baffling reason, two bedrooms in my house do not have wiring for ceiling lights. I’m not sure why the builder though that some fol...

 My master bathroom renovation is coming along at a good clip. We had a leak and a little 5 minute flood in our master bathroom. Everyt...

I get asked all of the time, do I really need to seal grout? The answer is yes.  Yes, you do. Grout is generally made from a mix of w...

 Yesterday was the official start of the Fall Season and the weather decided to cooperate. With a 20 degree dip in temperature and overcast ...

I will be walking untold miles throughout the day while I’m performing at a 35 acre renaissance festival. I’m thrilled to “people” (wit...

I'm in rehearsal for a show (all things being equal given the current health climate.) I'm hard at work breaking in my new ch...

Many parents are buying school supplies before their children start school (a few schools have already started!) It's much easier to tot...

The tomatoes on my plants started to ripen with a bad case end blossom rot last month because there wasn't enough calcium in the soil to...

As much as I would love to jump into my bathroom and start slapping new paint on the walls, the new paint would look awful. I’d make th...

After  I replaced the moldy wood subfloor in my master bathroom, I checked it with a torpedo level (a torpedo level looks like this ,) decl...

How do you know it is officially summer? It is after Memorial Day? The lavender is starting bloom in my garden? The weather is warm and kids...

I was able to salvage the last builder grade vanity  from my bathroom renovation for my workshop. I want to make it into the miter saw cabin...

In our early just bought a new house and need new stuff to store our old stuff days I turned some vintage fruit crates I discovered neglect...

Happy April Fool's Day!!! As a professional jester in the Before Times, I consider April 1st to be My Day.  I don't play tricks or ...

Ah Spring! Where it is sunny and tempting but still too cold to play outside.  And by play I mean, dig in the garden or build stuff in the y...

When someone asks why we started composting, my husband and I say it’s because we had to because all we had for garden was clay and zero top...

One of my small 2020 victories was actually starting/finishing a ton of UFPs (Unfinished Projects) and fabric stash bust projects.  I didn&#...

When you are doing a live performance you get immediate feedback on how people like, or don't like what you are doing. Blogging isn'...