I work from home, and with 4 young kids, that is both a blessing and a curse (mostly blessing). The hard part of having meetings at home, as well as…
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Recently, we packed up the family and drove to Birmingham, AL to visit some good friends for a long weekend. One of the families that we stayed with had been…
A vacuum former has been one of my long term “wants”. I’ve never actually had a good reason to own one, and even still have no particular good use for…
If you remember, I built a gigantic desk a couple of years back, that I named “Über desk” because it was.. well.. huge. Über desk served me well, but was…
UPDATE: Be sure to check out my video for building a four color printing press to make the printing process much easier and more precise! Some friends and I decided…
After the cutting and building in Part 1, I was ready to start assembling the main structure of the bed. The only difficult part of this was managing the weight…
We have 4 kids and 4 bedrooms. One of those rooms is for Mommy and Daddy, one is for our daughter, and one is a guest room. So, the 4th bedroom will eventually house 3 boys (I could almost hear you gasp…) Right now, my older two sons (5 1/2 and 2 1/2 years) are sharing it, and my youngest (4 months) won’t move in there for quite a while. We’ve known for a while that bunk beds were in our future, and in my normal style, I wanted to make them rather than buy them. I’ve spent months thinking, researching and looking for inspiration, but after my youngest was born, I thought it was time to really get the project in motion.
My kids LOVE animals, and we try to encourage that love in any way that we can. We’ve got multiple aquariums, multiple dogs, multiple cats… you get the point. Our neighborhood has a ton of trees, so we also have a lot of birds, squirrels, and BATS! We can walk around a night and just see them buzzing overhead, it’s pretty awesome.
Yet another thing on my long, long “to do someday” list.. a COMPOSTER!! This has been one of those projects that I kept thinking was a good idea, but not…
Our coat rack died. After years of service, it just gave in to the weight of coats and hats for 4 kids and 2 adults (and countless visitors). RIP coat…
