DIY twisted candles are so fun and easy to make, you may find yourself with a kitchen full of them if you’re not paying attention! “Hey Babes!” The voice preceded the woman, as is often the case. My ears pricked up, and my eyes instinctively scanned the room for an escape route. The wailing call had come from the garage,…
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This repurposed desk hutch has found a new home in our garage. The best part is, we didn’t have to do much work to give it a new life! I almost sold it. Really. It was November of 2018, and I was trying to cut a swath through the Teetering Deathtrap of Crap in our old basement by pawning some…
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DIY Dollar Tree candles are easy to make, and they only cost a few dollars per candle. Add essential oils for long-lasting fragrance. It occurred to me recently that in my Life Before Handan (LBH), I had never been in a dollar store. For that matter, I’d never been inside a Walmart either. I thought dollar stores were the final…
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We built two types of shelves for our metal lockers, inside and out. Both are sturdy, and neither required drilling through the metal. It doesn’t matter how much time has passed. It doesn’t matter how well they may be hidden. My babes will remember them, and she will find them. It’s only a matter of time before every artifact squirreled…
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With this locker makeover, we transformed three old military hallway lockers into a smart storage unit for our garage. They’ve been an albatross around my neck for the past three and a half years. Oh, it started off all well and good, I suppose. There was the typical proclamation from my babes – a common occurrence – wherein she would…
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It’s back to basics with this raw wood table reclamation. After all the primer, paint and wax, sometimes it’s good to get back to raw wood! It was my first. My very first. Oh, sure, every so often I reference some old DIY that I completed in the bland and boring years before The Navage Patch, but this table was…
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Our garage mudroom is a welcoming and comfortable space we created in an otherwise plain and uninviting area. It’s a little bit ironic. My babes has wanted a mudroom for years. In Connecticut, 99.999% of our arrivals into and departures from our home happened through the interior garage door. That door opened into the laundry room, and before we remodeled…
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A key part of our garage makeover is a painted garage floor…just maybe not in the way you might be thinking! Sometimes less is more. Oh sure, there are the obvious ones: makeup, perfume, jewelry, hair gel (these apply to women and men). There are the more philosophical ones: less stress = more happiness, less spending = greater wealth and…
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This DIY Flag Garland is an easy 4th of July craft with a cool vintage look. A few simple materials and some hot glue are all you’ll need. They were my favorite jeans. They fit perfectly, and the denim was the softest I’d ever felt. I found them somewhere in San Francisco, back in the DBMB (Days Before My Babes)….
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