Make, Build, Sew, Paint, Dig, Dog, DIY … (and if all else fails, hide it with fairy lights)
Not all “everyday adventures” are good ones. Bad Jack got skunked last night. Poor little dude raced into the house and brought with him a nose-burning nightmare (semi lol). Before he had a chance to …
I’m celebrating a couple of things today! First: we finished planting the area around our new DIY dry stack stone walls. (If this is your first visit to D&D, you can read about our July …
Yeesh! Nothing will make you appreciate a Buffalo winter like building a two-layer DIY stacked stone retaining wall in July! It’s been hot, hard, heavy work; but we’re really happy we did it. 🙂 A bonus: …
Mr. D&D and I have always loved stacked stone walls. We’ve long been inspired by this very lengthy wall that borders a main road near our neighborhood. …as well as this mortared one in front of …
Our upholstered furniture will be coming later this month (see this for more details)…and although I’m behind (not surprisingly) in my preparations, one of the tasks on my to do list is to come up …
Last week was a very busy week at the backyard feeders. I was still waiting for the Orioles to migrate back and hoping they would stop by and maybe nest in one of our trees. …
I mentioned recently that we’re in a bit of a redecorating mode (Ha ha. Aren’t we always?)… We have one year left before our youngest starts college, so this could be a very narrow financial …
As frugalistas, we’ve been spending some time over the last year or so seeking a DIY treatment for Emerald Ash Borers (EAB). We’ve been hearing over the past several years that the Ash Borer epidemic was on it’s …
Today’s post is a quick fix to turn gold into silver…or to be specific, brass into nickel. (I also have a tip share below for scoring free cabinet hardware for my fellow DIYers.) I mentioned last …
I’m not sure if it was seeing goldfinches, bluejays, or cardinals that turned me into a recreational bird geek, but I LOVE welcoming and inviting the many different species of birds that return to our …
