DIY

When I was a kid, a friend of mine gave me a cinnamon applesauce heart, and I remember keeping it as one of my special …

Recently, reader A. Marie mentioned making teabag wreaths with her Jane Austen group, and several of you asked for photos of the process. A. Marie …

I’m reprinting this in case you need an indoor activity with your kids in the middle of July! This post is part of a series …

Updated June 2021 Can a homemade pizza beat the $5.55 pepperoni pizza from Little Caesar’s or a $7 frozen pizza? I’m going to bust out …

Since open hair salons are in limited supply (and since not everyone can/wants to go, even if they are open!), I thought a refresh of …

(This recipe, which I published in 2008, is still making the rounds on Pinterest, but it didn’t have a printable recipe. Such things did not …

Sonia’s been using an old glass-topped desk since she moved into this bedroom. The desk came from Freecycle originally, and it lived in the office …

I wanted to link to this recipe recently, and I clicked on over to it only to discover that it was kind of a train …

In my years of frugal reading (books, blogs, articles), I’ve frequently come across the advice to get hair services done at a beauty school. But …

Though it’s not cheap, we are big fans of Harney and Sons vanilla comoro tea. ($5+ for a tin at Target. But if you compare …

(I apologize for the terrible lighting in these photos. My pocket door lives in a spot where there is NEVER any natural light.) A while …

You may remember that in my How To Be Content With Your Kitchen post, I wrote about how much I love my sliding kitchen cabinet …

Get comfy, because I have about eleventy billion photos for you! Let’s go back in time for a minute. Sonia and Lisey, circa 2005 When …

Normally when I share DIY projects, they’re my own…but today I have two reader projects to show you! The first is from Sandra, who gave …

Whenever my sister-in-law and I do a stereotypically male task, that’s what we say. She lays flooring, calls me, and says, “I didn’t need whiskers …