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I love fun Valentine’s Day mailbox ideas, especially when they’re easy + inexpensive like this Poké Ball.     While my third grader Jack’s class is making…

I made fun and festive little Galentine’s gifts with champagne and hearts for my friends.

Make a snowflake holiday card display with pallet wood and paint
MyFixitUpLife Krylon Pallet December Holiday Snowflake Pallet DIY after decorated

This year I was inspired to make a new holiday card display in our family’s ‘formal farmhouse’ style. I chose upcycling pallet wood and a few fun paint colors

We used wood from a Minwax wood staining workshop to make a tray for the holidays.

Fred is our new DIY Halloween Spider. We made him from soldered copper pipe and he is now an 8-legged part of the family. Want…

I took a chance with this copper pipe coat rack design. And I’m glad I did. Somwhere between woodworking and plumbing and design, it was…

If you have a backyard wood playset that needs some stripping, cleaning, staining, and sealing, this how-to is for you.

Warm weather and DIY projects seem to go hand-in- glove. Or wine-in-glass in this case. Want a perfect project for the deck, living room or…

I love woodworking projects that blend materials. This one combines wood and copper to create a bathroom towel holder. This is for a hand towel…

I call woodworking projects I make with regular carpentry tools ‘workbench woodworking’. I call working with 100-plus year old 3×10 lumber AWESOME! So what else…

Enjoying pretty little plants can be a year-round pleasure with a custom-stained pallet indoor wall garden.