In a previous post I showed you how we dug the hole for our natural swimming pool. The next step in the project is preparing the hole for the liner. We didn’t want to use concrete reinforcement for this project so our hole is built very much like a pond. The sides slope gradually toward [...]
A natural swimming pool is a chemical free pool that uses nature’s processes rather than chlorine for cleaning. I spoke about natural swimming pools or swim ponds, as they are sometimes called back in February. It was a bit too early for swim season then, but I had it on the brain and thought ya’ll [...]
Well, as promised.. I am finally posting about our tire swing, which is affectionately dubbed the super swing. Though you can’t tell from the video, at many points during that shoot I am 11 feet or more off the ground. That’s probably higher than anyone ever needs to be when in a tire swing… but [...]
Last year I wrote about making free, or nearly free, playground equipment. Well, this year I’d like to show you the playground we are building for the kids. We’ll start with our handmade see saw, otherwise known to us as a teeter totter. Here’s a video to get you started: See Saw Materials One 4x4x8 [...]
I’ve seen a lot of message boards lately complaining of the same problem: “planting seeds indoors, in areas with a short growing season.” One of the recurring issues talked about is limited space, indoors and out. The expense of a greenhouse is out of reach financially, for many people even if they had the space [...]
The baby chicks are happily cohabiting in their new chicken house. Thanks for all the crossed fingers, prayers and ideas that came pouring in, we really appreciate the support. I couldn’t be happier with the end results. Take a look:Here we are almost finished with the plank siding. We’ve installed the plank floor, re-caulked the [...]
I mentioned on Monday that I had been super busy making birthday gifts. In our family we have 5 birthdays in January and an anniversary. 3 of the birthdays are my kids, all girls. Since they are 12, 5, and 1 I had to come up with a completely unique gift for all of them. [...]
Hello everyone, as promised here is my tutorial on French Milled Apple Soap. I finally feel well enough to sit at the computer a bit and I am dying to show you guys how easy this is. I have never made soap, or remilled soap before, and this turned out perfectly the first time. I [...]
A few days before Christmas I decided to make one last project for the kids. I had seen years ago, before I became a blogger, that someone had turned an entertainment center into a play kitchen. I held on to two entertainment centers throughout the years for just that purpose. I had only one problem.. [...]
I know I covered portions of this project in my frantic, before Christmas, posts. Now that things have had a chance to partial settle down, (yeah right) I’d like to show you a start to finish how to on building your own dollhouse.This dollhouse, and another I started but didn’t finish, was created from store [...]
