This is a Valentine’s Day decoration for the front door that is made with lace, paint, and some wooden hearts. Full disclosure: I’m not sure I love this project. I know that’s not a great sales pitch, but I LOVED it until the glue dried yellow and made my lace look like it had been […]
Woodworking
TBT: Wood Burning
Wood burning that I completed back when I was younger. I haven’t done a throw back Thursday recently so when I came across these old pieces that I wood burned, I took some photos to show them off. It’s a nice reminder that I was DIY’ing before I started DIYDanielle.com… and before I had the […]
How to Build a Custom Arcade Machine
This is a tutorial on how to build your own arcade machine. This will cover how my husband built our MAME cabinet and the supplies needed. He repurposed a kitchen cabinet base for the bottom portion of the cabinet. My husband and I had a conversation in the car the other day that went […]
How to Make Your Own Blanket Ladder
How to make your own blanket ladder for displaying your throws. This is simple, functional, and beautiful. I made a couple of throw blankets for our family room. The kids jump on the couch, the blankets fall off, the dog lies on them, the kids eat food on them, etc. Yuck. Oh it just drives […]
Sock Drawers for the Front Door (Repurposing Drawers)
How I upcycled two drawers to make a sock drawer for our front door. This allows me to organize our process for leaving the house, and to keep the socks somewhere I can access them quickly and easily. Anyone else ALWAYS running upstairs for socks for the kids? If we put them on upstairs, they […]