When my parents moved into their house over three years ago, my grandparents also moved into the house with them. After about a year in the house, my parents decided to renovate the Jack and Jill bathroom and two bedrooms into a suite for my grandparents. When they were designing the suite, one of the things they wanted in the renovation was to create a hallway of closets. While my mom got several quotes from multiple companies for installing a set of closets in this space, they were all very expensive. Together, we came up with a design and I decided it to tackle it myself.

Having the confidence to start your DIY journey is so much easier when you know which tools to use and how to use them. So, here we are again with another tool tutorial, this time: the dowel hole jig.

If you have a glass shower door on your tub and you don't want it there anymore for aesthetic reasons or because it might not be safe, you are not alone. My mom had two of these in her house when she moved in and she asked me to remove both of them. When I removed one I discovered that it was barely secured to the wall! It came off super easily, which is terrifying, but in doing so I realized that I could take one of these off in about a day and it's not a big deal. Let me show you how I did it.

The first big project I ever did was putting shelves in a weird nook area in the loft of my parents house. I did this even before my most viral house bed that I built for my daughter a month later. When I did these shelves I was still learning a lot through trial and error in my DIY projects so I knew that I wanted to go back, use all of my new knowledge and do these shelves the right way.

I'm back again with another simple tool overview. Today we're talking about how to use a jigsaw. Let's get started!

Last year I built two workbenches using drawers from an old office and cabinets that my grandmother had gifted to me before she passed away. Unfortunately, with all of the drawers and space in the back filled, the wheels started coming off of the big workbench. Every time I did a quick fix they would inevitably break off again. So, I had to come up with a new solution I figured this was a good time to revamp my workbenches to better fit my needs. Let me show you what I did!

My mom asked me to redo a closet they have in their front hallway. When they moved in, all it had was a wire rack in the back and the hooks on the side. So I took everything out and got to work.

I recently shared how my mom does my floral arrangements. I'm good at a lot of things, but floral arrangements are something that I struggle with. She really is a master and does an amazing job. While I try my best to find florals and extras that are inexpensive, the arrangements that she does are, admittedly, not cheap. She adds things that she already has purchased in the past, like Polish Pottery pieces, that add to the expense of these arrangements. I decided to compare and contrast these with a more frugal version with materials from the Dollar Tree and see how the Dollar Tree arrangements stack up. Let's get started!