Happy new year to you all and welcome to new readers! Now that my subscriber count has surpassed 1,500 (thanks, everyone!) and we've rolled into 2013, I wanted to pause to do a DIY project round-up. Not necessarily comprehensive, just a visual introduction to what goes on around here. 1: Operation Obscurement: Window Film 2: [...]
A few months ago Design*Sponge posted a round-up of art scarves, including this awesome furoshiki from The Link Collective: Folded Paper Furoshiki designed by Lucinda Newton Dunn (Photo copyright: Link) Link says: "Furoshiki (風呂敷, fu-rosh-ki) is a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth. Each of our products has been hand printed in Japan, using traditional [...]
There might come a time in your life - or perhaps that time has already occurred - when you see a piece of art and think "I bet I could make that!" (Not in the dismissive way that people say "My two-year-old could paint that" but rather "That's a good idea that seems within my [...]
While cleaning out our closet this weekend I decided that cleaning out our closet would be nicer if there were a ceiling light in there. More often than not, mundane cleaning initiatives like this are waylaid by the allure of PROJECT! You know what's not exciting? Cleaning. You know what is? Wire stripping! We have outlets [...]
On April 4th I asked you, dear reader, to "check back soon for posts on building raised garden beds and installing a backyard shade canopy!" Well, I delivered on the garden beds... and never mentioned the canopy again. IKEA's DYNING canopy seemed like a great solution for our sun-scorched backyard. The width was perfect and installing the [...]
Project Palermo 