If you’re wondering what this is… it’s a picture of me, falling in love.
Yes, with rusted, cracked, apparently duct-taped, windows… which happen to belong to this:

Look. At. All. That. Space. For. Tools.
Is there anyone else in the world who looks at this picture and gets a little weak in the knees?
This dilapitated little building has [...]

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Which is a lot like pleading insanity– because I am completely raving mad– except that my eyes don’t ever close.
Between Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, I got a grand total of around 9 hours of sleep. And I’m the kind of person who needs around nine hours of sleep per night to function like an [...]

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This is the front door to my little abode:

The entire entryway has been slowly crumbling to pieces about since I bought the place four years ago. Starting with the 80 year old wrought iron railing, which was held together with spit and twine.

Then there’s the spot where the wrought iron was sunk into the concrete, [...]

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Just for putting up with the mess around here (and yes, the blogroll will be back up soon) I’ll give you your cuteness overload for the day.
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You can thank MysteryMan and his Texas adventures for this [...]

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I recently had an email conversation that sparked some thoughts about the love/hate relationship between my DIY Philosophy and the television.
First of all, if I’m watching the TV, I’m not actually working on any of my projects. So unless the TV is giving me step-by-step instructions for the next project I need to get started on, [...]

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