When I was young, I used to talk my mom’s ear off while she sat at her sewing machine sewing away. She tried to teach me how to sew a few times, but I would have none of that. Too many directions, too little concentration. It was much more fun to have her pretend to listen, while I babbled away…
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It’s Pink Monday over at The Thrifty Rebel and Tuula has asked me to join the pink ladies, woot!! So, I made something PINK with a hint of Hawaiian influence. The project involves using tin cans, pink yarn and sisal cord, which I like to call tiki twine… to make yarn wrapped tin cans! Photo source …so hula on over…
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Our exposed basement ceiling has officially been painted and our basement has finally been put back together…okay, almost, but we’re working on it. The whole basement project started out over a year ago, and one of the steps that took the longest was these first 5 tips in preparation for painting an open beam ceiling. Ken and I both agreed, as…
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When Cat from Cut Out and Keep invited me to participate in the #DIYTheRoom Challenge, she told me that I could design the room for anyone I choose. The person could be famous, real, fictional, historical…, that’s a wide range, right? But it didn’t take me long to decide exactly whose room I would LOVE to try and decorate. One…
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Tin foil is not just for cooking, my friends. There are plenty of ways to put aluminum foil to work in a DIY project to get a metallic finish that can look pretty darn close a real metallic finish. Being that tin foil is technically metal already, it’s effect makes it look that much more real, in my opinion. It’s…
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