How to make a truly 100% squirrel proof bird feeder, guaranteed! I’m one of those people who wears binoculars, the funny hat you see in parks and watches birds. Yep, I’m a birder. So naturally, I like to feed the birds in the yard, and hopefully get some interesting, out of the ordinary species from time to time, but notice…
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Learn to make these cement balloon planters the easy way, and that works! Use a balloon as your mold. Cement (not concrete) is the key. **Updated April 27th, 2019** I started this project out feeling really frustrated. Originally I tried to make these round cement balloon planters using concrete like other tutorials show, but it was a complete fiasco. Even…
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How to make adjustable DIY wood drawer dividers to organize your drawers, using only a Dremel for routing and a miter saw. I mentioned in my post from the beginning of the year on our move, that I’m desperate to get organized. Right now, my focus is on the Craft Room/ Studio, and if you missed it, Painted Plastic Drawers was…
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A quick tutorial on how to cast these cute cement Easter egg planters with drainage holes, using a real eggshell for the mould. Easter is around the corner and I have the hardest time knowing how to decorate for this holiday. Truth be told, I’m not the greatest decorator anyway, regardless of the fact that I’m a kitchen designer in…
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Adorable concrete wine cork planters! Make a mould and create as many multiples as you’d like of these cool succulent planters. I came up with the idea to make concrete wine cork planters because we were getting ready to go to WORKBENCHcon. WORKBENCHcon, if you haven’t heard of it, is a conference for woodworkers, interior decor, concrete and any kind…
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DIY Project Space Organization Series | The Craft Room -Part 2 In my last post on how I painted the ugly plastic drawers, which you can see here, I teased about the concrete organization labels I made. I most certainly needed labels on these drawers and couldn’t see myself slapping on the extra printer address labels I have laying around,…
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DIY Project Space Organization Series | The Craft Room -Part 1 How to make ugly plastic storage drawers look good, by painting them! This is the first mini project specifically for the craft room. There will be more to come before the final craft room post where I will explain the whole process I went through to figure out how…
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At Christmastime, we were getting a tree, and the store we got it from had small pallets behind it. We asked if we could take a couple and they were happy to give them to us to not have to deal with them. I can’t even remember which project I used it for, but I still had one nice piece…
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The 6 Spaces Needing DiY Project organizing That I’m going to attack. We just moved from New York to Georgia and I’m feeling a bit unpracticed since I haven’t done a big move in over 7 years. I used to be a serial mover, moving every 1 to 3 years to different states, different cities. We really needed a change…
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