One woman's quest to salvage the world's castoffs, lock, stock and bauble
Today's post is all about carpentry, a subject that I know absolutely nothing about. But I'm all about learning new things. And after my brief foray into the World of Wood, I think I can safely say I would make a really great carpenter if wasn't for all that measuring stuff. (I've always been a …
To all of you who own stock in the Rust-Oleum company: You're welcome. I'm pretty sure your profits are going to be waaaay up this quarter, courtesy of the deluge of painting projects I've undertaken. My most recent one: metal patio chairs. I had four of these chairs that were part of a patio set …
I've spent most of my free time during the past few weeks cleaning, organizing and purging the clutter from my basement. But one Saturday morning, I decided I needed a break, so I drove to a nearby town to check out a citywide rummage sale... ... and came home with a whole new batch of …
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Please excuse the lack of blog posts in recent weeks. I was sucked into the black hole that is my basement and, much like Kimmy Schmidt and the Indiana Mole Women, have only recently emerged back into the real world. In my case, my subterranean exile was self-imposed; I was cleaning, sorting, purging and organizing …
While cleaning and organizing in my basement recently, I found an old fish bowl/terrarium that I had picked up at a thrift store a couple years ago. I had always intended to set up a little nature scene in it, but I never found any houseplants that were small enough, so the terrarium languished, empty, …
I live in a 100-year-old house that definitely has its charms: chunky wood moldings, pocket doors, high ceilings, big bedrooms and hardwood floors, to name a few. Not quite so charming is our old stone basement, which has proven on a few occasions to be less than watertight. As a precaution, everything we store down …
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