 Grimy little spots from milk, popsicles, and bubble blowing soap. I decided my back porch needed a face lift and I have always loved the stained concrete look. That was the solution. Eric usually pales when I bring up home improvement projects, but this one he was on board with. For your benefit I used [...]  These past few weeks have been super busy for all of us. I imagine everyone is beginning to venture outside again for spring time activities. One indoor activity that I keep up with is reviewing books and other items for Amazon. My most recent was a pair of hair clippers. I was super excited about that [...]
I have been on the lookout for a table that I would use solely for painting, and could leave my in-progress works on and NOT have to clear it away for dinner. I have always painted at the kitchen counter or on the dining room table and would have to clean it all [...] I thought I had better get this post out before Easter. Should your kids want to do a craft as mine are always wanting to do here is an easy Easter project for them. Run the paper through the shredder. Mix equal parts flour and water to form a paste, like paper mache, and mix [...] I have had two of these chairs long enough that the fabric on the seat is beginning to fray. That and I am over the floral brocade look. At least in my house. Right now. So, I got this hair-brained idea that I could reupholster. I mean, don’t you just wish it were so and [...] How cute is this? I think this is adorable and may just have to make one for Anwyn for Easter. I am right now working on their Easter outfits. Each year they get a new one and Anwyn’s is the most fun to do. Until now I have not found one that I would love [...] Canon’s birthday is coming up and having done Christmas shopping not too long ago I knew that the prospects of finding him a really great toy were grim. So came up with a gift I could make him and while it won’t have the instant out of the box squeal appeal, I think it will [...]
This little activity is almost too simple to post about but the idea came to me after visiting the Children’s Museum and seeing how much fun the kids had at the “lentil table”. Each of the kids gets a 13X9 pan and I just cover the bottom with uncooked rice. That’s it. That [...] This is one of Winnie's cards. One of her many. This year we had a little Valentine card making party. Caitlin was in town so everyone came over to my place. In the end I had glitter all over my kitchen and glue all over my table but we all had a wonderful time. Projects involving [...]  So here are some of the final photos from the house that were done for listing the place. But in order to appreciate them, you really have to remind yourself of the before photos! Tim and our house being renovated were featured in a local paper today. http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2011/01/digs-house-flippers-are-back.php Lucrative New Life for the Obsolete: House Flippers Are Back Post-Bubble Standing on a sloping, Astroturfed porch in the historic section of Anacostia, David Garber pries a plywood board off a gaping doorway and enters a crumbling rowhouse. Inside the cave-like interior, chunks of [...]  These wooden door hangers sat in my basement for a few months while I wondered what I would do with them. All I could envision was geese, and forest green bows, and other horrible things that smell of the word “crafts”. But then I walked into my nearby home decore shop and saw these darling ones with [...] OK, I have had this ridiculous thing for buttons. I bought buttons for projects I was doing, projects to be done in the future, and projects I might do. And it got out of hand. I even have the most darling chihuahua button with a gold collar around its neck sporting a little blue gem, [...] We are in the final stages of our house renovation and it’s been fun watching it all come together. A while ago I posted the plans for the new kitchen, and am happy to report that I have some updated photos to post. Last week Tim’s brother Matt came down and installed all the cabinets and the [...]  With my new job as a barista at a local coffee shop I have to keep my hair up and out of my way whenever I’m working. After a couple of weeks of wearing a ponytail (boooooring!) I decided I had to come up with some new fun ideas for keeping my hair out of [...] January has really taken us into the final stages of renovating the house we plan to sell at the end of the month. I pretty much skated through December, taking three weeks off to go home to Washington State but now I have a long to-do list to make up for it. One of my latest [...] This button was made in the Czech Republic. This is one of my favorite necklaces. Several years ago I went to a sewing expo and one of the vendors was selling these beautiful glass buttons from Europe. I couldn’t resist buying one though I didn’t know what I was going to do with it. As [...] Remember that cable knit sweater that I turned into a pillow and said I would make a pair of pants from them? Well, I took those sleeves and turned them into a pair of cable knit pants. Here’s what I did: I took a pair of PJ bottoms to use as a template and outlined [...] By far the thing that has occupied most of my time initially for this renovation was the new full-sized kitchen that is going in on the main floor. I have been back and forth in my head over the design and style for it. I sort of wanted to go modern in this house but [...] So here we are on our journey turning a two bedroom/ one bath house with small kitchen located in the basement into a beautiful new two bedroom/ two full-bath house with a large kitchen on the main level and a kitchenette in the basement. The house is going to be so much more appealing with a [...] |
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