My wife Leigh Ann loves to cook, and to use fresh herbs when she does. Unfortunately, her garden is several yards away from our house, so I thought I would devise a way we could have pots of herbs growing right outside our kitchen door. I started with three, thin six-inch wide oak
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Everyone loves to watch birds, whether at a feeder or around a nesting box. Putting up nesting boxes is a good way to attract birds year round. But as you can see by this bluebird house of mine, it doesn’t take long for unprotected boards to begin to swell, crack and warp. Before
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Sarah of Thrifty Decor Chick shares a great project that involves a piece that is very important to her, which she also worked on with her father.
I’m super excited about this project — one, because it turned out beautifully. Two, because it’s a piece that means a lot to me and I’m
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As every cook knows, fresh herbs can make any meal a memorable one, so I took an idea for a hanging shelf made from a pallet board and suspended with twine from a pair of brass cup hooks and adapted it for an herb shelf designed to hang in a kitchen window.
I worried, however, that
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