Category Archives: DIY Life

How to Stain an Image onto a Pallet

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I finally decided to do something with the huge double wide pallet that has been leaning against our house for about half a year now. There are so many different ideas of things to do with pallet wood. I really liked the idea of using the wood for wall art because it has tons of character. I have seen people paint and add stickers to create wall art. I decided to try something different and experiment with staining a image into the pallet. I am so happy this worked on the first try. Continue reading →

DIY Custom Disney Water Bottle, Almost Free Souvenirs

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In my last post I had mentioned that we brought our own water bottles onto the Disney Cruise to use outside of dining hours.Well, I got really ambitious the week before the cruise and decided to surprise my family by making them water bottles with their name and favorite Disney character on it. I got this idea from House of Hepworths. Continue reading →

Kitchen Organization {Post 1}: Chalkboard Spice Jars

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This will be the first post of many on my constant battle to organize our kitchen. Our old apartment had a super tiny “hallway” kitchen. You know the type were you can’t open the oven and the fridge at the same time. So moving into our new house it was night and day difference with our new kitchen space but I could always use more space. The biggest problem I have with our new kitchen is there is no pantry so our dry foods take up a lot of the cabinet space. I will hit more on this issue in a later post. Oh the plans I have brewing in my head (insert evil laugh). Continue reading →

Farmhouse Table, Part 2

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Our dining room table is done! This has been an idea in the making for months now. I previously talked about the inspiration for this table in Farmhouse Table Part 1. Between building this, traveling for the holidays and running into missing materials, this project took a lot longer than we expected. In the end it was completely worth every day. I hope this will be a part of our family for years to come. Continue reading →

Farmhouse Table, Part 1

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A few months ago, I stumbled across Ana White’s website, to say the least it was life changing. I have always loved to build things, being a mechanical engineer it is second nature, but I never thought about building my own furniture. I have always been a person to choose metal over wood for all my projects. Other than a project a few years ago to convert my husband’s chest freezer (for beer brewing) to a table in our old apartment, I had never really worked with wood before. Now I am stepping out of my comfort zone and building our dining room table out of wood. I loved the look of a farmhouse table especially for our craftsman’s style home.My husband being a little skeptical of my ability to build a table convinced me to go “real” table shopping before making the final decision to build our table. After a couple of hours of looking at $1,000+ price tags with nothing really jumping out at us I deiced to drag him to both Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware (they happened to be next store to each other). After showing him two examples of what I was going to build and looking at their price tags he was sold on the idea of me designing and building the table. Continue reading →