The Doors (but not in a sexy Jim Morrison sorta way)

My DIY-ADD tendences are surfacing again. Here is my email conversation this week with Ms Fix-It. She: What would you like to accomplish this week? Me: oh Gosh, dunno. I do need to think about the office (still to paint, hopefully will do that by Thurs) but would love to tile the shower room as [...]

Blood and burbs and Bailey’s

Behold! The fruits of our labor today, me and Ms Fix-It. To hell with putting up doors! we shouted. Sod the silly set squares and hammer and chisel. Let’s get pissed instead. Actually, although these look like two wine corks, they are what comes out when you drill a small hole in the side of a [...]

Daft cow

I am, really. There’s no hiding from the fact. Hours were spent preparing the new pine door for the bathroom – hours, admittedly, in which my DIY guru/mentor/saviour Ms Fix-It did most of the work, but hours nonetheless. We/she held the new door up against the old one, measured, drew little pencil lines, used something [...]

Psst! I’m back

What? Did you think I’d glued my hands together with Liquid Nails? Drowned in a quicksand of caulk? No, nothing of the sort. Apologies to my blog, for I am a neglectful mother. Apologies to my house, too, as it’s not as if I was so buried in DIY that I forgot to write about it. [...]

I’m missing my fix

Well whaddaya know? In a turn of events that will not surprise you in the least, the much-longed-for tin ceiling completion didn’t happen. Ms Fix-It canceled on me, sick. That was a blow. And the second blow is that our vacation and work schedules conflict for the next month. A month without my DIY mentor? [...]