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Father’s Day Gift Idea- Light Up Star Wars Sign with Personalized Light Sabers

May 19, 2023 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

Father’s Day Gift Idea- Light Up Star Wars Sign with Personalized Light Sabers made with xTool M1 I love making things for Father’s Day. I especially love making things for my husband with our children’s names on it. He loves his kid and is one proud Dad, so having things with their names is really…

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Filed Under: DIY, Father's Day, gifts, home decor, laser cutter, paint, sign, tutorial, video tutorial., wood, xTool, xTool

Graduation Gift Idea- Personalized 2023 Light Up Sign

April 26, 2023 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

Graduation Gift Idea- Personalized 2023 Light Up Sign I don’t know how it happened but I have a kid that is graduating this year!! I could have sworn that it was just a couple years ago I was graduating from high school.  That clearly is not the case but it sure feels like it sometimes!…

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Filed Under: DIY, gifts, glue gun, graduation, home decor, laser cutter, party, sign, tutorial, video tutorial., wood, xTool, xTool

DIY Wood Settlers of Catan Board Made with xTool M1

March 26, 2023 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

DIY Wood Settlers of Catan Board Made with xTool M1 If you are new to laser cutting, check out my beginner’s guide to the xTool M1. Settlers of Catan is one of our favorite family games. We play it all the time and the kids really enjoy playing it with us.  Since we have more…

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Filed Under: DIY, games, kids, laser cutter, paint, tutorial, wood, xTool, xTool

Layered Wood Farm Sign- How to Engrave and Cut Wood at the Same Time

March 25, 2023 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

Layered Wood Farm Sign- How to Engrave and Cut Wood at the Same Time If you are new to xTool and laser cutters, check out my beginners guide to the xTool M1. A couple months ago my husband asked me to make him something to display at his work.  I had had my xTool M1 for about a…

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Filed Under: DIY, gifts, home decor, laser cutter, sign, tutorial, wood, xTool, xTool

How to Build a DIY Backyard Patio with Pavers

March 20, 2023 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

How to Build a DIY Backyard Patio with Pavers For the past couple months, we have been wanting to transform our backyard into a more grown up/teenager space.  The kids are growing up quickly and so we wanted more of a hang out spot than play area.  We got rid of our playhouse and that…

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Filed Under: backyard, DIY, home improvement, tutorial, yard

Engraved Wooden Picture Frame with Boise Temple

March 17, 2023 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

Engraved Wooden Picture Frame with Boise Temple Today is my parent’s anniversary.  They were married on St. Patrick’s Day 61 years ago today! It is the first anniversary since my dad’s passing, so I wanted to make something special for my mom.  I know that it is going to be a hard day for her,…

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Filed Under: DIY, gifts, home decor, laser cutter, tutorial, wood, xTool, xTool

How to Install a Dimmable Light with Dimmer Light Switch

February 6, 2023 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

How to Install a Dimmable Light with Dimmer Light Switch One of my favorite ways to update my house is changing out the lighting.  It’s such an easy way to update a room without having to do a lot and spending a lot of money.  You can really brighten up a room (literally) with a…

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Filed Under: craft room, DIY, home decor, home improvement, tutorial

Dining Room Cabinets- How to Add Extra Kitchen Cabinets

January 23, 2022 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

Dining Room Cabinets- How to Add Extra Kitchen Cabinets We have a storage problem in our house.  We have a nice big house, with lots of open space but we do not have very big closets.  Our pantry is small and we don’t even have a coat closet.  So we have to come up with…

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Filed Under: DIY, furniture, home decor, home improvement, paint, tutorial, wood

No More Carpet in the House- Reasons Why We Removed All of Our Carpet

December 10, 2021 by Kaysi 2 Comments

No More Carpet in the House- Reasons Why We Removed All of Our Carpet Three days before Christmas last year I had a crazy idea, I decided that I wanted to rip out the carpet in my son’s bedroom and replace it with laminate flooring.  I’m not sure why I decided to do this 3…

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Filed Under: cleaning, DIY, home decor, home improvement, home tour

Blush and Gold Nightstand Makeover

June 21, 2021 by Kaysi Leave a Comment

Blush and Gold Nightstand Makeover For the past couple weeks, I have been redoing my daughter’s room.  She is now 10, so she is gradually moving out of the little girl stage, into the tween stage.  So we painted over the rainbows and unicorns in her room and are adding more “grown-up” pieces.  She choose…

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Filed Under: DIY, furniture, girls, home decor, paint, silhouette, spray paint, tutorial, vinyl

How to Put Laminate Floors on Top of an Existing Floor

May 24, 2021 by Kaysi 3 Comments

How to Put Laminate Floors on Top of an Existing Floor Did you know that you can put a floating floor on top of an existing floor? Yup, it is true!  You can put a floating floor on top of an existing floor, as long as it is a level and solid surface.  You can…

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Filed Under: DIY, home decor, home improvement, home tour, tutorial

How to Install Gray Laminate Stairs with White Risers

February 18, 2021 by Kaysi 1 Comment

How to Install Gray Laminate Stairs with White Risers We have been in our house for almost 7 years and we have been wanting to replace the carpet that is on our stairs.  Our cats ruined it the first year of living here, so we have been talking about replacing it since then. We thought…

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Master Suite Renovation with Gray and White Color Scheme

January 14, 2021 by Kaysi 1 Comment

Master Suite Renovation with Gray and White Color Scheme The master suite, it’s my favorite please in my house.  It’s my sanctuary, my place to escape the world and relax. So when it comes to renovating, it’s the first place I want to change.  It’s the place that starts it all, I redo it and…

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DIY Growth Chart Board

July 23, 2020 by Kaysi 1 Comment

DIY Growth Chart Board I have been wanting to make a growth chart board for my family for awhile now and finally got to it.  We have been using just a plain piece of wood for the past several years and my oldest got too tall for it, so it was time to get another…

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Filed Under: DIY, home decor, kids, paint, sign, silhouette, tutorial, vinyl, wood

DIY Face Mask Holder and Organizer

July 9, 2020 by Kaysi 4 Comments

DIY Face Mask Holder and Organizer We live in the state of Washington and they just made it mandatory to wear masks in public, so I needed some way to keep our face masks organized and displayed so we won’t forget them as we leave to go out.  I had them in the little green…

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Filed Under: DIY, home decor, organizing, paint, sign, silhouette, tutorial, vinyl, vinyl. silhouette, wood

DIY Medal Holder Board

April 6, 2020 by Kaysi 4 Comments

DIY Medal Holder Board This past year I made a goal to get healthy despite my health issues, you can read all about it here.  Well in doing so, I did a lot of races.  For fun, we did several races as a family and so all of my kids have medals.  They needed a…

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Filed Under: DIY, exercise, fitness, home decor, paint, sign, silhouette, spray paint, tutorial, vinyl, vinyl. silhouette, wood

DIY Crafting Table {Vinyl Work Station}

February 22, 2020 by Kaysi 6 Comments

DIY Crafting Table {Vinyl Work Station} A couple months ago, I got an itch to start moving furniture.  That is always bad news for me, because it ends up snow balling and I end up changing up several rooms in the house.  Whenever I do it, I love the outcome, so I end up doing…

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Filed Under: craft room, DIY, furniture, home decor, home improvement, paint, silhouette, tutorial, vinyl, wood

Shoe Storage Solutions- DIY Shoe Shelf Organizer

January 5, 2020 by Kaysi 1 Comment

Shoe Storage Solutions- DIY Shoe Shelf Organizer for less than $50 We have a shoe problem at our house.  I like shoes, so I have a lot of shoes and so does my family.  I am always looking for shoe storage solutions but they never seem to hold enough shoes.  I recently bought some shoe…

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Filed Under: DIY, furniture, home decor, organizing, paint, wood

DIY Cube Organizer Shelf- IKEA Kallax Knock Off

December 9, 2019 by Kaysi 2 Comments

DIY Cube Organizer Shelf- IKEA Kallax Knock Off I love the Kallax line at IKEA.  Seriously love it.  My whole craft room is full of the cube organizers.  I just love the look of them but also how functional they are.  They can hold a ton of stuff and they look good too.  Really they…

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Filed Under: DIY, furniture, home decor, home tour, organizing, paint, tutorial, wood

Running Medal Holder with Display Shelf

May 6, 2019 by Kaysi 3 Comments

Running Medal Holder with Display Shelf Back in high school running was my life.  I did cross country, indoor track and track for all 4 years of high school and I loved it so much! In my 20s running was my way of exercising and when I needed to get into shape, I would immediately…

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Filed Under: DIY, fitness, home decor, paint, sign, silhouette, tutorial, vinyl, vinyl. silhouette, wood

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