When we were cleaning up for our holiday BBQ, Jeff made a snarky comment about our junk pile of wood on the side of the house. He was right,...

With no range in the kitchen, Jeff was motivated to pull our old camp cooker out of the shed. It was a lovely day to do some outdoor cooking...

 And we finished another project! We couldn't make the top shelf tall enough for gallons because we needed to clear a pipe sticking out ...

I've been continuing to clean up the pile of salvaged wood in our driveway. We had a few pieces of weathered and rather ratty pieces of ...

As part of our garage reorganization, we decided to move the leftover cans of paint into the basement. The basement has more consistent temp...

I have been trying for nearly two months to plant seedlings in the front yard but every time we set them out, by the next day most of them h...

I finished two denim tote bags made from old jeans for my WOOFA Challenge . I finished the circle denim tote I started last month. Since I...

And we finished another salvage wood project! A firewood rack for the side of the house. This project used up the last of the weathered 2...

We finished another project! I've been having a lot of fun building stuff with our giant pile of salvaged lumber. This time a small ben...

I'm super excited about what we built from salvaged wood! Maybe you guys remember from the photos of the yard the mess of wood along the...

After I got my sewing room chair mat , I was motivated to clean up the room and do some sewing. I had planned to finish my curtains , but un...

Since our local landfill won't take plaster and lath, we have been exploring alternate ways to dispose of it. My original plan was to si...

I've been musing lately about why we made the choices we did during our renovation. First, I love looking at historic photos of bungalow...

Jeff and I finally got around to starting our closets. We left it here: And we're trying to get Jeff's closet here: And my cl...

We've been totally goofing off this week. Jeff is enjoying playing an Xbox Oblivion game and I've been goofing off reading and playi...

It's funny how we get distracted by projects that zoom right up to the top of the queue. Somehow I decided we needed to build this neat ...