DIY Living – Page 11 – CONFIDENT TO DIY

Single Pane Window Insulation and More

I will explore making my own Window and door Draft Stoppers, thermal insulated curtains, ½ in EMT conduit curtain rods and finials, and no drill options for hanging the curtain rod and hardware. Our 100 year old historic home has very drafty single pane windows, over 48 windows to be exact. I love the way [...]

Customized Textiles

This method can be used to make table runners, place mats, curtains, or any number of other household textile items. For me this started because I wanted a small rug in front of my coffee table. The problem was that no store bought rug seemed to fit the 15 inch space between the couch and [...]

½ in EMT Curtain Rod and Finials

Since my windows are 11ft wide I needed a viable option for a curtain rod that can span the distance, be strong, and light weight. This left me looking at using ½ inch EMT Conduit. I can’t express how excited I was to save money on making my own curtain rods and seeing the finished [...]

Jack Skellington Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween

I started this project October of 2017 and it took me over a year to finish due to life events. I am happy to share the results and if you have any great ideas to improve on this build please share them. Caution this is a lengthy and tedious project that took up 4-7 hours [...]

30g Premiere Protein Pumpkin Spice Waffles

Ingrediants This recipie makes two medium sized waffles 1/2 cup Paleo waffle mix 1 cup water 1 scoop of 30g Whey Protein powder 2 tsp olive oil 1tsp vanilla extract 1/2 cup pumpkin purée 1 tsp pumpkin spice If you don’t have pre made batter or pumpkin spice then you can mix up; 1/3 cup [...]

12v Overland Water System for Reliance Jumbo Jug

Automatic 12v water faucet for jerry can! ❤️One of my foundation block essential camping gear items is this automatic water system❤️+ the manual foot pump water spigot. I made this to be plug and play zero maintenance. No batteries to charge or replace! 9/2024 UPDATE: The water system stopped working. I found a blown fuse [...]

Locked out of Word Press

I consider myself very new to online blogging and with that comes some growing pains. One of my more recent issues was locking myself out of my Word Press (WP) site after trying to change my primary domain name. I made the mistake of logging into the WP-admin, going to settings and changing the domain [...]

Metal Privacy Fence Panels

There are a lot of great fence building tutorials out there so I am not going to spend a lot of time covering how to build a fence. Instead I want to share with you the helpful steps that I discovered while building our metal panel privacy fence. I will discuss the building differences worth paying [...]

Raised Gabion Garden Bed

Gabion Garden Wall I worked on building this wall during Cody’s end stage cancer, which helped to give my mind something to focus on other than facing the inevitable loss. It was challenging trying to figure out how to do this project. There was very little online information detailing how to build a small 2ft [...]

Feline Esophageal/Esophogastromy Feeding Tube

When Cody stopped eating for four days I chose the feeding tube vs syringe mouth feeding. I didn’t want to take the chance that I could cause aspiration pneumonia, soft tissue oral trauma, a severe food aversion, but most importantly I didn’t want to traumatize him. I also had to consider the medications I would [...]