How To Make a Glass Jug Lamp
When I decided to rent an old farm house with a bunch of falling down buildings on the property there was a general debate going
When I decided to rent an old farm house with a bunch of falling down buildings on the property there was a general debate going
If all goes well– and, as someone who almost just lost the tip of a finger to a kitchen utensil (the irony of that is
I’m going to start this post out with a disclaimer: If you’ve eaten recently, or are thinking about eating in the next, oh, eternity, you
Honestly, if I were a better person, I would be picking up the random piles of laundry strewn about the house instead of trying to
First of all, I am admittedly not a chicken expert (yet) but I’m pretty sure this isn’t actually a “coop”. It’s probably more of a
I really feel like this one should be called “the little girl who heaved a table onto her back, ran across two lanes of traffic
Whereas the bedroom at Memorial was warm, spacious and inviting (or I like to think it was), the bedroom in the rental is a little
It’s been a little over a month since I fell in love with shared the first version of the future Hillside Cottage floor plans. Here’s
Just so we’re clear from the start, the “beautiful” part of 2011 was definitely how the Memorial House turned out, and, well, I think “disaster”
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Back in 2004 I started writing about my adventures in fixing up houses on the internet. A lot of things have changed since then, with me, with my houses, and with the internet. These days I am basically a cranky old man trapped in a slightly less old woman’s body. The internet has changed and I am staunchly refusing to change with it. You won’t find any algorithms here, or feeds, or ads, or social media. Just good old-fashioned stories about a woman drinking beer and building shit, and living an unexpected life.
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