I miss dirt and sunlight and the color green so bad! I was checking out my seeds and decided to bust out some diy skills and put together a space for a herb garden in my kitchen. If you’ve read about my kitchen then you’re …
Category: Crafts
Upcycled Window Greenhouse
A few years ago I scored a crap load of windows from a local glass shop for a box of timbits and a round of tripletriples. Best $14 I ever spent at Tim Hortons! I used them to build an Upcycled Window Greenhouse. Here’s how: …
Keeping Chickens – Building a Chicken Coop
The process of becoming a crazy bird lady
New Kitchen Island From Scraped Up Wood
One day the entire kitchen is getting a proper renovation. Until that time comes I am constantly reconfiguring it trying to keep it functional for a family of seven. I built a new island to replace the last one. This one is sturdier and offers …
DIY Playhouse
It all started with a wooden kitchen set being listed for free on the local classifieds. I expressed to my neighbor how I wanted to build a playhouse for the kids and she mentioned that as part of the process of preparing her house to …
Sectional Sofa DIY
If you’re like me, you hate paying big money for home furnishings. I had these crummy sears sofas that were really uncomfortable and the seat cushions always slid off the couch whenever anyone tried to get comfy on them. Sorry about the poor-quality photo; it’s …
Apothecary
I’ve been storing my random dried herbs and tinctures etc in various paper bags around the house because I didn’t have a proper place for them all. When I saw these boxes at the local Dollarama for 3 bucks each I had a light bulb …
Upcycled Chair Spindle Tree Topper/Star
I have been set on doing a really elaborate rustic farmhouse style Christmas Tree this year and it seems that anything of quality at the local stores costs an arm and a leg. So I got on Pinterest and found some cute wooden stars that …
Sew Cute Caddy
I originally made this to hold treats for a birthday party. Now it serves as my handy dandy sewing caddy. If you’ve never put holes in china check out diamond-tip drill-bit and say that five times fast! While playing around with sewing stuff I made …
Weekend Project: Garden Paths
Another chapter in our neverending backyard projects saga wrapped up this year with the installation of a firepit area and garden paths. We have really crummy grass because I can’t be bothered to invest time and money into maintaining something that provides so little benefit; …
Every Kid Needs a Market Stand
Last summer when my inlaws got married they asked me to build them a mini ice-cream shoppe for the kiddos. So I dug in the scrap wood pile and fabbed up this little beauty in an afternoon Since then, the kids have used it as …
