I'm an RIA Developer who owns a motorcycle custom paint shop, who loves to race anything with wheels. I also enjoy woodworking, cooking, fine wines, liqueurs and dark beers. So if nothing else my blog should be eclectic.  

Category: DIY

Aug 2 2008

Thrice Baked Wedding Invitations

Some of you who know me, know that I'm getting married soon... Yesterday I ran into an issue that I felt was worthy of a short story. My girlfriend and I are trying to do a modest wedding and are keeping costs down where we can; one of the places we cut back was on wedding invitations and rsvp cards. We stopped into Michaels and picked up 3 DIY packs that should suffice our 100+ crowd of adults plus children and created them in MS Word. I have an small-office laser printer in my home office that prints faster than I thought was possible and it was WAY easier than I ever expected and we only spent $100ish dollars.

So 2 days after we printed them all and put them aside I get a call during the day: "Honey what are we going to do? All of the wedding invitations are still wet, and they smudge at the smallest touch!". When I got home that night and surveyed that they were in fact not drying that she wasn't nuts, I came to the most obvious conclusion that any sain purson could: "Lets put em in the oven".

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2 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 1:19 PM - Categories: DIY | General News | Friends / Family

Feb 28 2008

Kitchen Renovations

So I've spent some time working on renovating my kitchen. In all there will be

  • new floors (tile)
  • new backsplash (redish glass tiles)
  • new Corian countertops (sandstone)
  • Replaced all the 'dead-end' cabinents with corner units
  • Gas cooktop with wall oven (electric) installed below
  • Corian built in sink with new faucets
  • Removed old dry wall closet/pantry and will replace with one matching cabinets

 

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1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 11:48 PM - Categories: DIY | Woodworking

Dec 20 2007

Built In DVD & Display Shelf into Stairway

I own a new townhouse that is ruffly 1600sq feet, making use of that space is important and certain looks/styles make the place look bland or like an apartment.

One of the biggest offenders in my place was this blank wall under the stairs to the upstairs. I had this stupid little country shelf where crap just got thrown and the rest was blank.

My solution was to build a built in shelf, one that would hold DVDs since we were lacking a good solution up until this point.

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