Painting my 70’s laminate countertop to look like stone

OK. WHY? WHY??? Didn’t I do this sooner!

The old counter top.

If you don’t think it’s that bad take a look at this close up.

and it turns out that my sister-in-law Amy has the same exact countertop🤪 go figure!  So Amy this is what yours can look like to girl.

The first step was to fill in chips and cut marks, and I used this awesome wood filler product. It’s amazing stuff, because it’s made with ceramic beeds, so there is little to no shrinkage and this stuff is strong!!

Then I scuffed the counter up with 150 grit sand paper.  THERE’S NO GOING BACK NOW BABY!

2 coats of adhesive primer. I used B.I.N. It’s good stuff.

*tip: always pour paint on opposite side of the directions 👍

Oh man! The primer even looks better than what it was! 🙄 WHY? Didn’t I do this sooner?

The next pictures will be a successions of the progress of each layer I did.

I top coated it with Rustolium Varithane diamond hard finish in gloss and absolutely love how it turned out.

Be brave you can do it too!

Fixing one of my pet peeves

One of my pet peeves is duvet slippage.  So, you toss and turn half way thru the night, your cold and no matter how high you tuck your covers under your chin you can’t get warm.  You finally wake you after a fitful nights sleep only to realize that you were hugging an empty duvet cover all night long, the actual duvet was down around your waist. Argggghh.....enter the duvet slippage fix.....

Ribbons sewn to all 4 corners!  Step one complete 😁

Step 2

Attatching loops to the inside of duvet cover

It is working awesome!! No more cold shoulders for me!😀

Woods Backpacker Hammock Review

DIY fire starters that really work

https://youtu.be/eJtGhExTBDM

Melt old candles I cut up into bits

Pour into tightly lint packed egg cups

Keep heating more wax until the wax pools on top. They should look like this when done.

These work amazing.

How to clean your Davids tea ice tea press

So, I love teaaaaaa!!!! And I love my new David's Tea, Ice Tea Press.  Only one problem how to clean it.  So, I asked myself how would my besty Christine clean it.  I'm sure she would find or invent a way. So here it is: 

https://youtu.be/BIpwrKKk_L4

The Last of the trim

Finally had the desire to finish the last of the trim.

Top piece gose up

Bottom piece is in

Finally all trim is done.  That was a long project.

Solo desktop aquarium filter modification

I took apart the submersible filter and remove the carbon container.

Then added some bio media

That's much better for beneficial bacteria.