Creativity comes in many forms, some purely decorative and some for function. I love lamps and feel they can finish a room just as jewelry completes an outfit. Lamps can…
While at the thrift store with a friend, I found a coffee table that had a space for two panes of glass on top. Of course the glass was missing…
Sometimes I just need to make something. When I get that urge to create, my friend and I head to the thrift store and I wander around until something looks…
I love Pinterest and sometimes lose track of time (hours) while creating my boards and wish lists of all the eye candy posted there. Needing Christmas ideas I decided to…
It is fun to take something old and give it a new purpose. When I saw this high school wood shop candelabra project at our local thrift store, I thought…
I tried to screen print on burlap. It doesn’t go on smooth due to the texture of the fabric. There are many methods to do this, trace by hand and…
In our girl’s bathroom there were originally four towel hooks on the wall. Evidently the spacing did not allow each one to be installed in a wall stud because over…
When planning your DIY project and need information about gravel, here is a simple breakdown of gravel types and uses. The information offered is for product we crushed and screened…
As soon as the holidays are over, the winter weather finds me daydreaming about the coming spring. I decide which annual flowers I will plant and create my kitchen garden…
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