Feature Friday - Coming Soon!

I have some very talented friends and blog readers - you know you're one of them! I would love to start featuring projects by you wonderful, creative people each Friday on the blog! So if you have a craft, paint, or building project you are proud of, please send me some pictures and a little blurb about what you did and you may find your creativity...

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Save your corks!

I have a strict rule about decorating for Christmas - we absolutely must wait until after Thanksgiving. Granted, we break open the storage boxes first thing Friday morning, but still... Of course, there need to be exceptions to the rules... and creating Christmas crafts is sometimes one of those exceptions. Crafting can take time and if we want to...

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Finally some progress!

Whew, after weeks of stops and starts, I finally made some major headway on the garage today! When I last posted about the garage, I was as far as painting the soon-to-be-storage area. After that, I started emptying the shelves in the back of the garage in the hopes of reusing as much wood as possible. The progress then grinded to a halt as I found...

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Happy birthday to me! (and table saw stand build)

Yesterday was my birthday - Happy birthday to me! My birthday theme this year was apparently tools... Check out my super cute cake from The Boutique Bakeshop! (And it was so yummy too. If you are local, you need to visit this bakery!) And here is my swanky new Ryobi nailer from Brad and the girls! So excited to try this out! :) My super...

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