I picked up this vintage round mirror with etched floral design at Goodwill for $4. Mark gave it a lovely cherry frame and we hung it in our guest room. First he took of the ancient backing, which was a disintegrating piece of MDF. Someone in the past had used duct tape to hold the... Continue Reading →
Recently Mark and I have noticed that we have accumulated a great many things. Things we’ve made or collected over the years, things found or given or handed down to us. I like things, but one can have too many. My mother has even more things. So she and I have combined forces to open... Continue Reading →
I found this quote by Rachel Carson and it captures such a lovely sentiment that I knew I had to incorporate it into a piece of art. I love how it turned out with the fox lifting his nose towards the butterfly in fascination. It also ties in beautifully with the woodland themed nursery for... Continue Reading →
Our hydroponic garden provided a bumper crop of tomatoes to start our summer canning campaign.
Let me tell you, one of my favorite upgrades we’ve done to this kitchen is a set of drawers Mark built for a cabinet that had been tragically underutilized. Aside from storing the slow cooker and the odd boy, this cabinet wasn’t getting much use. And this was all the more sad for it’s central... Continue Reading →
Under the kitchen sink cabinet, just where the toe lift meets the floor, was the grossest vent in the house. It was originally brown painted metal, but was now caked with rust and grime, since decades of floor mopping water had deposited a nasty patina of scum. An additional problem is that they had laid... Continue Reading →
One of the more annoyingly innocuous aspects of our house when we moved in was an extra bit of soffit that had been used to attach a cabinet over the kitchen peninsula counter. Someone in the past had taken the cabinet off to open up the kitchen space, (a decision I heartily agree with), but... Continue Reading →
Toy box for our friends new baby girl. Accidentally turned into an anarchists tool box thanks to literary influences from Lost Art Press. Once it’s done holding toys she can fill it with tools!
I tried the pumpkin eyeball method with success this Halloween. I broke out my proper acrylic paints from art school and really tried to get into the spirit of the thing. Also our pumpkin family has one more member than it did last year.
Mark painted the garage with a paint sprayer. The end results look so much better and cleaner. The garage had probably not been painted in 40 years. Now with everything hanging neatly, I notice how many shovels, rakes, hoes, axes, trimmers, machetes and other implements of destruction we have.
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