Not Much Farmin'

I've been busy this summer helping around the neighborhood and working on some other projects. Not much farming or cheesemaking going on right now!

A set of 36 color cubes. Each cube has four solid colored sides (red, yellow, blue, white) and two dual colored sides (red and white, yellow and blue.) I've been wanting one of these since I saw a set here.

This table needed a new leg. I used my Kreg Jig Jr to build it. It's the second project with the new jig and I'm excited to have more projects in mind!

These are some temporary shelf doors that cover some of the open shelves in my daughter's 3rd grade classroom. She needed something to hide the stuff that has to be stored there. These were easy to 'build', the cost was minimal, and although they don't completely cover the shelf, they make a big difference in calming the room down.

I'll be posting a tutorial for the teachers at her school who want to make some of these. The teachers at this school are phenomenal! The administration.... not so much!

Better Than a Rubber Band on a Paint Can

Martha Stewart says to do this....

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I didn't have a rubber band that size in the house. And I could see me removing the rubber band....

and watching it fly across the room and landing on the window or a wall or the light fixture.... you get the idea.

This is what I came up with instead.

Duct tape.

First I put the tape across the top of the can. Then I used scissors to make four snips on the tape over the opening of the paint can.

I folded the pieces in the middle under.

This strengthens the tape a little more (as if Gorilla Tape needs strengthening) and gives me more room to get my brush into the paint can.

I've done this quite a few times now during the past two weeks of painting and it has worked well! If I'm careful, I can use it a few times before I have to throw away the tape.

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