Thursday, June 3, 2021
Edible Landscaping Groundcover Ideas and Friday Favorites Week 584
Thursday, May 27, 2021
My First DIY Cold Process Soap Project and Friday Favorites Week 583
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Easy Garden Watering Hack and Friday Favorites Week 581
Thursday, May 6, 2021
DIY Door Sign and Friday Favorites Week 580
Sunday, May 2, 2021
The Best Ever Quick and Easy Sewing Pattern Storage and Organization Idea
I store my sewing patterns in a recycled shoebox because it is the width of a sewing pattern envelope.
Also, with a husband who is a long distance runner, I can get a replacement shoe box when I need it on the regular.
It worked for awhile - until it didn’t.
As I’ve done more costuming work, my pattern envelopes are in all shapes and sizes. On more than one occasion I plopped the whole pattern into a gallon size zipper baggie because the pattern pieces won’t fold to fit back into its envelope. I try to store my sewing patterns by category but they quickly return to their natural disorganized state – a pile busting out of its shoe box(es.)
This is not working. I need to find a better way to store and organize my sewing patterns that fits in a small, limited craft room space.
Sunday, April 25, 2021
DIY Farmhouse Floating Shelf
During our bathroom renovations the bed in the guest room/craft room has become a de facto storage area that also holds crafty bits.
Who am I kidding?
The bed is a dumping ground. It is a mess and it is driving me nuts.
Fortunately I have a great spot for a wall shelf to store the crafty bits above the closet door if I use a floating shelf. Let’s do it!
How to Make a Quick and Easy Floating Shelf
Thursday, April 15, 2021
How to Spring Clean Your Dryer Vent and Friday Favorites Week 577
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Decorative Rain Barrel and Friday Favorites Week 576
Thursday, April 1, 2021
DIY Harlequin Jester Costume and Friday Favorites Week 575
Time to link up your favorite projects, recipes, and posts!
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
DIY Non Toxic Resin Look Coasters
Six years ago I made a set of aluminum can coasters that looked like this:
After years of abuse with a constant stream of hot coffee cups and cold beverages all day every day the coasters on our desks now look like this:
Choosing a difference adhesive may have helped as well as adding a protective coating to the top. Cutting down on coffee and ice water is not going to happen - ever.
Sunday, February 21, 2021
How to Build an Outdoor Dog Ramp
Our dog Lacey lives life at 90 miles an hour. She runs. She jumps. She barks. She barks some more.
So. Much. Barking.
When Lacey practically flipped a switch from her normal bouncing off of satellites self to barely and cautiously walking it meant a quick trip to the vet for x rays.
Lacey has two slipped discs in her back which is common for dachshunds. We left the vet with meds for the pain and inflammation, bed rest for two weeks (good luck with that!) and to eliminate jumping situations as much as possible so her back doesn’t get any worse.
I bought these light weight dog stairs with a washable cover for the living room furniture Lacey is allowed to sit on. (Disclosure: I am including affiliate links for your convenience.) They aren’t the prettiest but they were cheap enough to buy a few more to add to what we have so that every chair/sofa in the living room has stairs leading up to it. We think jumping up on a chair that didn't have dog steps is how she hurt herself.
Sitting next to my people is my favorite place to be!
I also scored this exact folding dog ramp on Marketplace for a song because OMG folding dog ramps for cars are spendy! Hopefully we can get Lacey to use the ramp to get in and out of the car. No matter how many times we tell her to wait until we pick her up Lacey will catapult herself into the back seat of the car because waiting is for sissies – apparently.
How to Make a Down and Dirty Small Dog Ramp
Thursday, February 11, 2021
How to Put a Removable Pompom on a Knit or Crochet Hat and Friday Favorites Linky Party Week 568
Monday, February 8, 2021
Master Bathroom Remodel One Step Forward One Step Back
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Mason Jar and Wine Cork Centerpieces and Friday Favorites Linky Party Week 567
Thursday, January 21, 2021
The Best Ever Sea Shanty and Friday Favorites Linky Party Week 565
Monday, January 11, 2021
How to Remove a Damaged or Moldy Subfloor
On Master Bathroom Demo Day I found black mold on a chunk of the wall and on several areas of the subfloor.
After removing the damaged drywall, the next step in the process is to remove the bathroom subflooring, check for mold or water damage, have it treated if necessary (and crossing my fingers I don’t,) and replace the subflooring.
Thursday, December 31, 2020
End of the Year Silver Linings and Friday Favorites Linky Party Week 562
What a long, strange, trip this year has been. My husband and I kicked off 2020 at a Roaring 20's party and shortly afterwards everything roared to a full stop. While it is all too easy to focus on the boatload of the bad things that happened this year, for my sanity and mental health, I'm trying to focus on the few positives I experienced:
- I did a lot of projects on my Do It Yourself Honey! list. DIY, craft, and otherwise. As a result, I got new and repaired clothes, household items, home improvements, and cleaned out a bunch of my fabric stash and scraps. Yay!
- A Christmas gift from my mother in law inspired me to relearn how to crochet. Something I haven't done since my grandmother taught me as a kid.
- Zooming all over the country to see friends, family, and performances regularly instead of the once or twice a year we normally do in real life.
- Having the free time to shop at farmer's markets and can a boatload of end of season sale tomatoes.
- Lacey is absolutely thriving with both of her people being at home 24/7 (although her people have gone a little stir crazy at times being home 24/7.)
Time to show off your creative recipes, projects, and ideas for the last time this year!
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Friday Favorites Linky Party Week 561
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Sunday, December 20, 2020
DIY Glass Candy Cane Swirl Christmas Ornaments
Every Christmas I give my niece and nephew a Christmas ornament. Usually they mark special events (such as the year my niece danced Clara in the Nutcracker,) hobbies, from places my husband and I traveled, or something really cool and unusual. Sometimes I make their Christmas ornament gifts but most years I buy them.
Except last year when I made their glass Christmas ornaments with fire!
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After taking my glass blowing workshop (I made a glass pumpkin,) I’ve been on the lookout for more glass blowing workshops. I like blowing glass in a workshop setting because an instructor is with you every step of the way to make sure you create a glass sculpture in the safest way possible.
Unfortunately I don’t have the space for glass sculptures (especially when Lacey spits a ball at my feet and demands a rousing game of Catch at the end of the workday. I swear that dog can tell time!) so I tend to lean toward the practical yet pretty glass art projects. Luckily blowing glass Christmas ornaments ticks all of those boxes.
With the added bonus of impressing my teenage nephew with photos of me in front of a furnace working with 3000 degree (F ) molten glass! (That is not a typo.)