DIY Coffee Mug Shelf

DIY coffee mug shelf / House shelf

I’d seen this cute coffee mug shelf on A Beautiful Mess and I’d pinned it as a “to do” on my Build It Pinterest board. But I needed a variation of it – I didn’t want 9 coffee cup nooks, I wanted 6 – but ones that were big enough to hold my Rae Dunn […]

DIY Wooden Sign

DIY wooden sign - Patisserie

With all of my pantry obsessing of late, and my continuing avoidance of completing my income taxes, I finally got around to a project I’ve been thinking about for quite some time…  a DIY wooden sign for above my pantry door. I went to France years ago, and in my travels through different areas of […]

DIY Door Mounted Spice Rack

DIY Door Mounted Spice Rack

When cupboard and drawer space are at a premium, you have to come up with alternative solutions to store and organize all of the little ‘extras’ in your kitchen. Our little ‘extras’ are spices – and Hubby’s fascination with accumulating every single one in existence has created a PITA for me.  You see, I purchased […]

DIYer’s Guide to Sanders

I’ve been refinishing furniture for a few years now, and have recently begun building things and I’ve done it all using just my tiny Dewalt palm sander. For furniture refinishing it’s perfect – compact, powerful and easy to use – but with the larger builds I’ve been attempting, it takes time.  It works, but I […]

American Girl Dollhouse – Rockwell Tools

My house is a sty – dishes in the sink, piles of laundry still waiting to be washed, toys, books, papers spattered on every surface. My home is a ‘Jackson Pollock’ of mess. Not because I don’t care – it bugs the hell out of me – but because I’ve had some exciting things going on […]

Furniture Makeover – Antique Farmhouse Table/Desk

Antique farmhouse table makeover

Traffic on the blog really fluctuates based on the topic – maybe it’s the day of the week or time that things are posted (you may have noticed, if you subscribe, that your e-mails have been arriving at different times of late), and I’m trying to figure out what it is you really want to […]

DIY Door Stop – from scrap wood

DIY Door stop - Scrap wood bird doorstops

I found the most adorable photo of a bird doorstopper on Pinterest the other day.  I tried to follow the link to see how it was made or where I could purchase one – but unfortunately, the link didn’t lead anywhere. But since I’d seen it, I “needed” one of course – and it didn’t look […]