DIY Recipe: Make Tasty and Inexpensive Homemade Vanilla Extract

Vanilla gets a bad rap for being plain and simple, but adding a dab to your morning coffee can really boost the flavor, and it still tastes great with all kinds of goodies. Imitation extract is okay and fancy store-bought vanilla is pricey, so hand making this delicious extract is just too easy for us to pass up.

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How to: Make a Faux Vintage Industrial Metal Sign

As much as we love the warm feel of wood textures, sometimes the cool touch of metal is the way to go. Industrial and modern, metal signs offer stark lines and muted colors that tend to fit well hanging in any masculine space.

But, metal can be feisty to work with and requires complex equipment, so it's not always a great  weekend DIY project for the uninitiated

But! Making these letters and shapes out of wood then finishing with a

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Build This: Rustic Garden Bollard Light

Adding a bit of light to your outdoor environment makes it feel like a whole new space. Here's a quick how-to on making a rustic garden bollard light to your outdoor space using some pallet wood and an old Mason Jar.

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3 Cool Online Holiday Gift Ideas for the ManMade Man

As the holidays loom ever closer, it's time to take a look at a few good gift ideas for the DIY guy on your list. It seems that we have just about every tool we need, and we can make just about anything. So what would be a great gift for the who can make anything? Here are a few places to take a look.  

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Kid Friendly Inspiration: The Cabin Bed

You can admit it - we all had the dream of sleeping in the fort bed when we were a kid; and I'm willing to bet most of us haven't outgrown it quite yet. With my own little kids (finally) sleeping right now, I'm once again dreaming of a bed that will inspire them to dream as big as they possibly can.  

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