The speakers for the surround sound didn't fit in the niche as I hoped. I bought two CD towers to use as speaker stands and to store CDs. We lived this way for many years.
CDs? The seem so quaint now.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
How to Install a Flat Panel TV Wall Mount
We have a TV niche (big, fat hole) above the fireplace. When we moved in, Husband and I hefted our TV into the niche. I bought and configured a set of interMetro shelves to store the components above the TV.
The speakers for the surround sound didn't fit in the niche as I hoped. I bought two CD towers to use as speaker stands and to store CDs. We lived this way for many years.
The speakers for the surround sound didn't fit in the niche as I hoped. I bought two CD towers to use as speaker stands and to store CDs. We lived this way for many years.
Friday, September 7, 2012
How to Paint a Gas Fireplace
A fireplace wasn’t a Must Have when Husband and I house shopped but I secretly hoped our first home would have a fireplace.
We lucked out when we found our Condo. It has everything on our Must Have and Wish Lists including a fireplace.
I still like the fireplace but I’m falling out of love with the brass accents. I would love to use the brass as an excuse to buy a new brass free gas fireplace with a clear rock insert that makes it look like fire and ice when you light a fire.
However, I can’t justify the resources and expense it takes to replace a fireplace we rarely use. Angie of Country Chic Cottage and Cara of Moore Craft Time issued a Craft Lightening challenge – to make something that takes 15 minutes or less, excluding the drying time for paint or glue.
I looked at my 2012 DIY Goal List and took them up on the challenge. It’s time for a quick and easy fireplace update.
I still like the fireplace but I’m falling out of love with the brass accents. I would love to use the brass as an excuse to buy a new brass free gas fireplace with a clear rock insert that makes it look like fire and ice when you light a fire.
Fireplace Before
However, I can’t justify the resources and expense it takes to replace a fireplace we rarely use. Angie of Country Chic Cottage and Cara of Moore Craft Time issued a Craft Lightening challenge – to make something that takes 15 minutes or less, excluding the drying time for paint or glue.
I looked at my 2012 DIY Goal List and took them up on the challenge. It’s time for a quick and easy fireplace update.
How to Paint a Gas Fireplace
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Urban Scrawl Inspiration
Husband and I have the best friends in the world. Our in real life group is so understanding of our devastating loss of Blitzkrieg. We got sympathy cards, personal calls, and condolences from an overwhelming number of friends, neighbors, our family vet, and the vet hospital oncology team. Every single one touched our hearts but none so much as Blitzkrieg's oncology nurse. She made and painted a plaster paw print she took of Blitzkrieg for us on her own. Tears I did not know I had welled up inside me when I unwrapped it.
That's how Husband and I ended up at Urban Scrawl. One of our couple friends invited us to join them at Urban Scrawl because they know we like local food and arty things.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Salt Resist Tie Dye T Shirt
I didn’t check a white thrift store t shirt carefully enough
in the store. I brought it home and realized it has a stain I can’t remove. Bummer.
Not really.
I tie dyed the t shirt and made it better than new!
Once upon a time, a booth at the Viking Festival sold tie
dyed Scandinavian flag t shirts. I wanted a Danish flag tie dye t shirt, but
they were out of my size. They haven’t been back to the festival since. This
idea inspired my t shirt design.
Make a Danish Flag Tie Dye T Shirt
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