How to Make These Clay Push Pins
This post was originally published on DIY Network’s blog Made + Remade in April 2013. Looking to add a little zing to your office space? Here’s a quick way to make …
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This post was originally published on DIY Network’s blog Made + Remade in April 2013. Looking to add a little zing to your office space? Here’s a quick way to make …
Nothing spells springtime health like the opportunity to soak up sunny vitamin D while simultaneously getting serious amounts of work done, so I'm transforming the previously empty the 3-season room …
Yes, a grand supreme kind of champion. I even bought myself a trophy and a sash to make it official. Help me, I can't stop making outlandish references to Toddlers and …
It's a project that I've been meaning to tackle since I moved in: Office baseboard trim. And herein begins girl's first-ever baseboard trim adventure. Let me start here: I have no …
Regardless of whether we were just obligated to make some New Year's Resolution pow-wow, I'm still trying to make small goals for myself each month (like I did in October …
Surely it was the alluring power of the shaggy bear that pushed me to have my first DIY rug project done in just under a month. Inspired by xoelle's tutorial, I …
Once I began jamming on the shaggy bear rug, I felt pretty good about locking down on a color for the wooden filing cabinets that I brought home a few …
The empty frame in the new office gallery wasn't ignored for long. I had a little design in mind to try, and because it would be totally f-r-e-e with unused materials …
After I disassembled the stairwell gallery, and updated my mantle with the color block art, I found myself with nearly 2-dozen frames in storage (a.k.a. shoved in the corners in …
Yes, I came back for a second quickie post this afternoon, just to notate that I crossed another little thing off my November To-Do list. Wham, bam, that list owns me …
Those filing cabinets that I scored for $5 at a yard sale are improving. Spiffy. The big plan was to have them fully painted by this point; what you're seeing up …
November yard sales in NY usually consist of last-chance junk, with owners clearance-pricing their least-cherished belongings hoping to rid themselves of the obligation to haul their goods back into the …
Not terribly long after I launched Merrypad, I posted about my then-current paint palette. That graphic looked something like this: But in the last year, likely because I was challenging myself with …
It rained all of last week, and that totally spoiled my plan to finish moving the massive pile of soil in my driveway. And this week I've been sick, so …
Paint gun happiness continues. I spy a rockin' theme for the upcoming fall header image. The real reason I bought another honkin' gallon of primer (upping my count of gallons of …
The pegboard painting project moved right along once I mastered the art of the spray gun. I couldn't have been happier to get started on the project late last week, and …
I have this half-fleshed-out plan to use a pegboard in the office as an alternative to using the more expected cork board, whiteboard, or chalk board for utility. Remember, I'm only half-way …
This orange vintage plastic chair has been sneaking into many of my office-rehab shots lately. My sweet, discolored gem. It was a garage sale find much earlier in the summer that I …
I wasn't much bothered by the drawer pulls that were on the original Pier 1 dresser that I updated and shared with you earlier in the week, but once the …
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