DIY Pool Towel Rack

If this isn’t the easiest DIY you do this year, I don’t know what is. In fact, I might be over-stating when I even title it DIY because this DIY pool towel rack is really just a matter of paint and hooks. You may remember the last DIY pool towel rack I made a couple/few […]
Farmhouse Gallery Wall

It’s done! Happy dance, happy dance! I quoted this project at “it’ll only take me about three hours”… oops, business mistake #1. This is the wall we were looking to mimic: This was the plan I came up with to keep the feel, but change out the names: THIS is the finished product: This farmhouse […]
How to Make Wood Frames

Step 3 – time to make wood frames for our farmhouse gallery wall! I’ll show you the easiest frames first, mainly because they’re so easy; Line up a 1×2″ piece of wood against the top of the picture you want framed. Mark your cut lines and cut two the same size. Now, with your picture […]
Don’t DIY Connect 4 Game

I’m posting this article because we did the work and because we learned a few things in doing so, and if I can save you the headaches that we found, it’s worth a few minutes of reading right? My friend Lynn (of Plinko fame) is single-handedly providing all of the games for her school carnival. […]
How to Make a Plinko Board

This “How to make a Plinko board” was a fun project idea from my friend Lynn. She is the head of her school’s PTA, and/or planning committee and she wanted to build some fun games for an upcoming school carnival/ school fair. Lynn accumulated the supplies for the game from different “how to make a plinko […]
DIY Snack Station / DIY Produce Stand / DIY Display Stand

What do you call this? I’ve looked it up on Pinterest and you can find variations in all three: DIY Snack Station / DIY Produce Stand and under DIY Display Stand. For my purposes today I’m going to go with DIY Snack Station because that’s what it will be replacing – my previous snack station […]
DIY Bench Plans – DIY Garden Bench

These DIY bench plans are originally from Ana White – and while I really don’t want to steal her thunder (please go and check out her blog for her version and a million other DIY projects) – but I did need to come up with something for a sales “pitch” I made the other day. […]