Bread Slicer Guide
Napkin Holder
Picnic Caddy
Condiment Picnic Table
Crumb Catcher
Paper Towel Holder
Place Card/Recipe Holder
Chorreador de Café
Recipe Box
Recipe Box Bookends
Dehydrator
BBQ Refurb
Spice Rack
Cabinet Shelf
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Bread Slicer Guide
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We mentioned that we got a new bread maker for Christmas and have been making wonderful fresh bread every week. One thing that we've found to be inconsistent is the thickness and evenness of our slices. This handy little bread slicer guide made that problem go away.
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Napkin Holder
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Picnic time is coming soon and eating outside is always fun. One thing about eating outside that isn't fun is when the napkins blow all over the place. This handy napkin holder will prevent that from happening and looks nice too.
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Picnic Caddy
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Last week we made the napkin holder for those upcoming outdoor picnics. Continuing on with that theme this week we will make a Picnic Caddy. It's a handy caddy to carry all your picnic supplies to the table.
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Condiment Picnic Table
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This condiment picnic table is a great way to serve your ketchup and mustard for those summer picnics. This is a fun little one-day project that will make your summer dining table look extra special.
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Crumb Catcher
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How many times have you gotten in trouble because you buttered some toast and left a pile of crumbs behind? Well this simple project will make that problem go away. This is a fun and fairly simple project that can easily be built over a weekend.
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Paper Towel Holder
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Our camper trailer just doesn't have a good place to mount one of those plastic paper towel holders so I decided to make one for the counter. This is a simple project that requires a little imagination.
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Place Card Holder/Recipe Holder
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This is a pretty easy project that complements Marilyn's place/recipe card project, April 4th Newsletter. The idea is to make lots of these for gifts when people come for brunch or dinner. The holder can be used for table place setting and then later for a recipe card holder.
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Chorreador de Café
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A what you say? A Costa Rican coffee maker. It's funny how some of these projects are developed but this one came to us in a round about way from one of our readers, Michael O'Reilly. We were exchanging emails about Costa Rica, since we own a little piece of property down there, and he sent me a web site to check out.
While surfing around that web site I stumbled onto an interesting site about Costa Rican coffee. We are coffee drinkers, roast our own beans and often buy coffee beans from Costa Rica. Any how we took the picture they showed and made our own coffee maker.
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Recipe Box
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This is a neat little weekend project that makes a nice gift or just a good place to store your own recipes. We used Poplar for our project and I'm not sure it was such a good idea. I has a real tendency to warp. If you are going to paint your recipe box then plywood might just be better.
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Recipe Box Bookends
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A couple of weeks ago we made a really nice little recipe box. Well this week we are making two and turning them into bookends.
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Dehydrator
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Like many of my projects this one was inspired by Marilyn who this time needed a replacement dehydrator for an old electric one she had that died. Her requirements were that it needed to be an air dry dehydrator that would keep the bugs out and would break down flat when not in use. By golly I believe I did it!
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BBQ Refurb
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We have a bar-b-que that works good but looks really bad. It has wood wings on both sides and a wooden handle across the front. All of them were faded gray and growing moss.
It was time to do something but replacing it was not an option.
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Spice Rack
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We had always kept our spices on a two tier lazy susan which made getting spice bottles out of the middle difficult. I knew there had to be a better way and went to work. I came up with a three pullout spice rack that has a shelf in the middle giving you two shelves on each pullout. I made the fronts out of oak, the tops, bottoms, shelves and backs out of plywood and edged the shelves with walnut. I think they turned out pretty neat.
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Cabinet Shelf
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Our house that we've now lived in for two years had manufactured cabinets installed in the kitchen. They are OK and the shelves in the big cabinets slide out which makes access to things in the back quite easy. That is to say that all but one cabinet had this feature.
The shelves in the cabinet under out built in oven did not slide and they were really hard to get into. I fixed that with some simple shelves and slides.
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