I’ve had plans to change our dining room into an office/den/project area for a long time now.  We actually went out to a kitchen cabinet place with the intention of them pricing out unfinished wood cabinets for the room year ago–long before I ever picked up a circular saw.  I was going to paint them […]

I finally got my rear in gear and I’m making sawdust again.  I mentioned that I had a big project in the works, and I’ve had a really hard time pulling the trigger on this one and getting started.  I’ve went back and forth on the design MANY times and every time I had a […]

Hi all!  I had a recent question in the comments from Kelly asking for close up photos of how the batten meets the baseboard when I posted my Laundry Room board and batten project.  Since it was awhile ago, I had to go back and review the five posts on that project.  But I was […]

Dear Mother Nature, It is the end of March.  Where is spring? Much anticipating your answer, Pink Toes (although you wouldn’t know it, since my toes are still wearing slippers instead of sandals) *** I’m sure that most of you are aware that garage floors in unheated spaces are cold.  Very cold.  So I’ve kind […]

Are you looking for an adorable box for collecting all those valentines?  This DIY puppy dog valentine box will be the hit of your little Valentine’s classroom party!  Pip’s grade had a contest for their Valentine boxes, and she tied for the “Most Creative” with this DIY Puppy Dog Valentine Box.  I got the idea from Pinterest, […]

I was pretty excited to find out that I was one of the featured projects in a recent Remodelaholic post!!  They mentioned my under the sink organization I wrote about last year. Man, I still love that before and after.  I know I’ve hit gold when I’m able to keep it looking like this for […]

Yeesh! Sometimes it is the smaller projects that take a lot of time to write a tutorial on the process and this is one of them! Here’s one more project to cross off the list for Pip’s room…one step closer to the big day…an entirely complete room in my house! Can you tell that I […]

An upholstered footstool is one of the gifts that I made for Pip for Christmas this year, in my quest to have one room in this house completely finished up.  This is part of how I made it–I say part, because I think I deleted the building part of the pictures…oops!  It is so simple […]

If you use a pocket hole jig to assemble cabinet doors, you are left with holes on the back of the door that can be seen.  This may not bother you, and I decided it didn’t on Pip’s built-ins for her room because I didn’t want to deal with it and it wasn’t going to […]

With the new year in it’s first few days, you might be cleaning out some closets.  If you happen to have some tank tops that you don’t love anymore, I’ve got a simple sewing project that will repurpose tank tops into tote bags!  I had three that I removed from my closet awhile ago and […]

Have you ever wished that you had more than two hands?  I’m just not sure why evolution hasn’t stepped in and fixed the problem of only having two.  Every mother certainly needs more than two.  I mean come on–why does an octopus get eight??!!  I have never seen an octopus simultaneously unloading an overflowing grocery […]

Ahhh, crown moulding.  How I covet thee.  I want to put it everywhere in this house, but it seems so hard!!  This was my first attempt at any kind of crown.  Up until now, every built-in I have done has been capped off with casing (I think…or it is base…either way, it hasn’t been crown).  […]