DIwine by Abby Rose Creations

I wasn't intending to make a permanent garden by any means since I'm hoping to get a greenhouse in the next year or so, but, we needed something to grow some tomatoes and cucumbers in.  There are a lot of little creatures around here too so it needed to have some netting around the outside in order to keep those pests out. I decided on pine, again, because it's cheap and well, I had a lot of extra scraps of it laying around from some other projects I had done around the house. I also had a couple rolls of...

When we moved in to our home back in March we already hated this gate they had on the deck. I know the previous owners had a small dog, so they installed this easily and cheaply to keep her safe but she was ugly and increasingly difficult to use. One day, I finally had enough of the old girl and I removed all the hardware. Now, I had no gate to keep our 2 year old safe on the deck so I had no choice but get a new one done and quick! I quickly drew up a simple plan and...

I was feeling up for a challenge and I had a couple of bare walls in my kitchen. We badly needed some storage on the one side and I've always wanted a nice framed chalkboard so one weekend in July, I made this happen. I found this great frame at the restore and it was already painted white. I found some pegboard at Home Depot and painted 3 coats of chalkboard paint on it. I used finishing nails to tack it inside the frame and voilà! For the floating shelves I followed this great tutorial online, but changed the measurements to...

Now that we have this large yard for our kids to enjoy, we realized we needed to fill it up with some fun things for them to do. Play structures online were at least a few hundred dollars second hand and around $900 or more brand new. I didn't give up though, I figured I could find one and restore it if it was in good enough condition. We found this one for $35 on kijiji. The roof was broken from a recent wind storm, a few boards needed to be replaced and it badly needed to be stained. I...

I am not a professional. This is literally my first time refinishing a piece of furniture. I am sure I did about 1000 things wrong but hey, I tried some new things, made it out alive and ended up with a pretty great piece! On to my furniture finishing adventures... I had all these dreams and hopes for my next DIY project. Our kitchen could seriously use some more storage. Our pot drawers were loaded to the max and attempting to get anything out often ended in an avalanche of baking sheets and pot lids. I had these big dreams...