Someone will know how to do this...

I have several handmade by grandma pieces of lace, doily-like, I suppose and I want to display them on a wall as a series.  The backpieces are identical, just set of linen pieces and I'm leaning toward a tapestry/texture-y mount, e.g., neither framed, nor behind glass.  While leaning is fun, I can't figure out the steps to get it all from pieces to piece.  Can't figure how to mount the lace onto the linen so that both retain shape and texture, » READ MORE

November 23, 2008

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Is it possible to stencil an upholstered sofa?

I have this sofa with a wicker frame and natural-colored cotton twill upholstery on the cushions and interior.  I have these three redheaded little boys with the expected age-appropriate tendencies to spill/paint/draw/leak... 

So, like I said, I have this sofa.

I've covered it for a good long time now, but lately I've been sort of cleaning the upholstery with my rug cleaner upholstery attachment thingie.  Most of the really gucky stuff comes » READ MORE

February 28, 2008

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Need brainstorming re: grey water thingie

Okay, my son's crib is now a compost bin and while he's a bit mystified to see it put to such use, I think it's working quite well.  So onward, yes?  I spent all summer with a hose from my washer discharging into a large and elevated plastic trashcan and then siphoning that water out to my garden manually.  This required an acrobat's timing as the trashcan could only handle a single leg of the cycle or it got a bit ugly.  Also, the siphoning was » READ MORE

December 13, 2007

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Looking for input re: transforming crib into compost bin

Well, I know it's not the first thing you might do with a crib.  Or maybe it's not the first thing you might use to make a compost bin, but I'm a semi-old hand at composting and I *think* this could work pretty well. 

 Took the twins' cribs down last week (utter and completely bedlamous) and I.....just...can't....seem...to...part...with....the damned things.  So many possibilities.  So I have this wooden spindle-type one that I think...I *think » READ MORE

September 17, 2007

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Have many small boys and very few TVs left. Need help configuring this TV shelf suspended from wall cables, please?

We're down to the very last tv...the one my husband had before we were married...the 13 inch remote-less one on which all the people look slightly jaundiced.  This tv is already on top of a dresser and it's like Times Square for my boys to watch it as it is.  But, just like mama said,  they are growing so the TV must go higher. 

There's a pic of the shelf I want in that "trading spaces: make it yours" book--essentially looks like a deepish w » READ MORE

September 04, 2007

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