Thursday, July 30, 2020
Virtual Get Togethers and Friday Favorites Link Party Week 540
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Soapmaking and Friday Favorites Linky Party 538
Sunday, June 7, 2020
How to Strip Paint the Non Toxic Way
I have a love – hate relationship with spray paint. I love that spray paint will cover almost every surface (if you use the right formula) and easily paint hard to paint areas like indentations and intricate moulding. I hate that many of my spray paint projects en up with paint bubbles and drips.
The best way to avoid spray paint bubbles and dripping paint is to hold the can further away from object you are painting and use several light and even coats of spray paint rather than blasting a thick coat of spray paint from close up. Using a spray paint handle (you can find several types of spray paint trigger handles here) will help you paint with even coats of paint and not kill your fingers from pressing the can’s spray nozzle.
Spray paint bubbles are also caused by painting a second coat of paint on an object when the first coat is not completely dry. I know this because 9 times out of 10 I get spray paint bubbles because I thought my last coat of paint was dry after 24 hours and it was not. The joys of living in a humid area!
2 Ways to Repair Spray Paint Bubbles and Drips
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Easy DIY Small Space Under Sink Water Filter Friday Favorites Linky Party 532
Sunday, May 31, 2020
How to Hang a Hook on a Hollow Core Door
I want to add a robe hook to my guest bathroom. The logical place to hang it is on the bathroom door.
Unfortunately it, like all of the doors in my condo is a hollow core door. Can you hang towel bars and hooks on a hollow core door?
Yes you can!
The secret to hanging towel bars and hooks on hollow door without them crashing to the ground is all in the type of wall anchor you use – in this case Molly Bolts!
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Growing Vegetables from Scraps and Friday Favorites Linky Party 531
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Red, White, and Blue Face Masks and Friday Favorites 530
After all that sewing, I had to take my workhorse sewing machine in for repair and my backup sewing machine when it decided it wanted to break too. Oh no!
Monday, May 18, 2020
How to Clean Caulk Off Clothing
I had a quick little caulking project I needed to do and didn’t bother changing into paint clothes because I didn’t think I’d get messy.
Which of course meant I got several big smears of caulk on one of my few pairs of good jeans.
It. Never. Fails. Why won’t I learn?
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Can these jeans be saved? Yes they can! It is very easy to remove caulk spills from clothing. here’s how.
How to Remove Caulk From Clothing
Thursday, May 14, 2020
DIY Mental Health Jar and Friday Favorites Week 529
After one too many social media conversations about being disappointed about upcoming plans, events, and whatnot being cancelled due to Covid-19 (and then feeling guilty afterward for being sad over something so trivial when so many people around the world are going through much, much worse) I started to think that for my mental health I should try to focus on what little good things are happening around me instead the daily mountain of bad.
No good or happy event or moment is too big or small for my jar, because let's face it, things are so weird that I road the happy until the wheels fell off the day I ordered Instacart groceries and the original delivery date was a week away until I added my product substitutions and the delivery date changed to later the same day of the order - which hasn't happened in a very long time. Kinda silly, I know, but at least it points my head in the direction of complimenting rather than complaining.
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Elizabethan Chemise (Shift) and Friday Favorites Week 528
Thursday, April 30, 2020
3 Quarantine Bottle Cap Crafts and Friday Favorites Week 527
Sunday, April 26, 2020
How to Build Recessed Bathroom Storage Shelves
I figure I better replace it and poked around window shopping while I was searching and pricing every thing else I needed for the guest bathroom remodel.
Have you ever priced medicine cabinets?
Be prepared for some sticker shock. Even the cheaply made medicine cabinets like the one I have are a couple of hundred bucks. The medicine cabinets made from actual wood are even more expensive while still lacking style. That’s more that I wanted to pay for a medicine cabinet in a second bathroom we don’t use often.
I really don’t need a medicine cabinet with a mirror door because there is a mirror hanging over the sink. Actually I really don’t need a door either because the way it was installed, the current medicine cabinet door smacks into the bathroom vanity light if we’re not careful. Open bathroom storage shelves are the only answer.
I stood in the guest bathroom staring at the wall and trying to visualize how to turn the medicine cabinet hole into an open storage niche as pretty yet affordable as possible when I realized I was standing on my answer – use leftover tile from the bathroom floor!
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Mini DIY Ceiling Light Makeover and Friday Favorites Week 526
Because quarantine mini makeover sounds so much nicer than bunch of nagging DIY projects I put off forever and need to do something to keep from going stir crazy in lockdown so I'm finally getting around to it.
Ahem.
My late project is getting rid of one more ugly builder ceiling light in the in our upstairs hallway. I installed this industrial beauty while my husband was making dinner. One more light banished - 2 more to go!
The thing that made my heart sing "this is the ONE"are the Edison style bulbs (you can buy Edison style light bulbs here) because they work with tapestry and pendulum clock. Best of all you can buy LED Edison bulbs so I get the energy saving LEDs I like and my husband gets the warm yellow light of an incandescent light bulb he likes. We both win.
I showed you my project. Now you show me yours!
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Friday Favorites Week 525
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Thursday, April 9, 2020
Homemade Cloth Face Masks and Friday Favorites Week 524
A family member asked me to make her some and the ball started rolling from there. I guess saving every scrap of leftover fabric has its advantages in an emergency.
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Sunday, April 5, 2020
How to Clean Furnace and Air Conditioning Ducts at Home
A few days later it was back.
So. Gross.
Why do I have Black Stuff Around my HVAC Registers?
Friday, April 3, 2020
Cute Quarantine Dogs and Friday Favorites Week 523
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Monday, March 30, 2020
How to Caulk Around a Toilet
I went with a Watersense rated Delta Faucet Company toilet (you can find similar toilets here.) (Disclosure: I am including affiliate links in this post for your convenience.) I had such a good experience installing one in my powder room because every single thing you need to install the toilet comes in the box down to a screwdriver and the Watersense rating means it is water efficient (I think of it as the Energy Star rating for plumbing) without the hit or miss of not quite flushing everything that needs to be flushed like a duel flush toilet.
But before I can completely cross Install New Toilet off my punch list, I need to caulk around it (and also along the new tile next to the bathtub. Fortunately, you caulk around a bathtub the same way you caulk a toilet. Let’s do this!
Why Should I Caulk Around the Toilet?
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Friday Favorites Week 522
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Thursday, March 19, 2020
A Personal Update and Friday Favorites Linky Party 521
One of the hardest hit communities are Renaissance Festivals. There are many performers, food and craft vendors who make their living traveling and working all aspects of the faires and festivals that have shut down with no idea if they will reopen this year. To help, here is a Facebook group called Faire Relief 2020 that is full of shops and performers from all over the United States and selling everything imaginable. You can search the group so if you need something like a chainmail potscrubber for your cast iron skillets or a crocheted hat you can do so since people are adding their shops to the group daily. I suggest trying the Facebook group before searching Etsy as many of these stores don't have one. (
If you want to keep or start exercising and no longer have access to a fitness center or gym (all are closed in Ohio) I highly recommend the At Home Workouts Lead by Circus Performers Facebook group here from my friends who performed in the Cincinnati Circus (it is a people only circus with trapeze and aerial classes/performances, jugglers and such) until all of their bookings for the year were cancelled in one horrible half of an hour. Here's the group description: "At this time when so many people are stuck at home, we want to raise their spirits and help them stay healthy. Since we too are stuck home out of work, we will be asking for a $1 donation per person per workout. It is not necessary since we know others are having financial difficulties as well, but if you have the capabilities we would really appreciate it." There are several classes throughout the day to fit your schedule. (Neither of these two links are affiliate or sales links. I'm just trying to help out some folks who need it by spreading the word.)
I'm trying to keep the writing ship afloat despite Facebook's glitch marking the urls of Condo Blues and Lazy Budget Chef post to our Facebook page here as spam but will let me post memes about cakes that look like toilet paper all. day. long. Weird but a minor thing I'm sure will be sorted out eventually.
Since I also have some extra time on my hands, I'm attempting to relearn how to crochet. I haven’t crocheted since my grandma taught me as a little kid to keep me out of her hair when babysitting. I figure it is time relearn. Good to know my technique is still that of a six year old’s.
I showed you my project, now you show me yours!