If only I had such and such tool? A common question we DIYers ask usually right in the middle of a project. In this article I’m going to share 10 essential gift ideas for the DIYer. These are tools that come in handy time and time again. They are versatile and relatively inexpensive. These will…
Make An Ice Cream Scoop
Are you interested in making handmade utensils to spice up your kitchen? What about a gift for Mom, Dad or the grandparents? In this tutorial, I will show you how to make an ice cream scoop. It’s made from a kit that comes in either a gold plating finish or a chrome finish. My wood…
How to Make A Wooden Coffee Scoop
If you want to learn how to make a wooden coffee scoop, please follow along, and I will give you the full scoop. Okay, forget my attempt at comedy, but no joke — I’m about to show you how to make a simple, yet elegant coffee scoop. So grab that second cup of coffee…
Win a Steampunk Pen
I love this Steampunk Pen kit from Penn State Industries. Read this excerpt from the catalog telling about the Steampunk kit: Here’s a pen kit straight out of Victorian science fiction and the industrialized 19th century. The Steampunk genre has reignited a love of old fashioned materials and is all about mixing the old…
Making a Cherry Bowl
To me there’s nothing more satisfying than taking a raw piece of wood and turning it into a useful craft. In this post, I will step you through how I made the cherry bowl pictured above. This will not be a full-fledged tutorial because I’m still in the learning stages (this is the second bowl…






