Homemade

Building an easy fence | DIY gates | homemade gate latch
One person can build an inexpensive fence and a homemade gate.
Horses and donkeys will eat the same little favorite patch of grass over and over if you let them. This leads to a bald, over-grazed area and then other weedy areas which they neglect. I've built a lot of fences around my place since my 50th birthday! I'm not saying they're great, but I did them myself and they weren't very expensive. This lens will show you how I did one of them. There are LOTS of ways to do fences. This is just my way.

Homemade Christmas Gift Basket Ideas For Everyone On Your List
Welcome to my Homemade Gift Basket Holiday Gift Guide!
Homemade gift baskets are among the easiest and most fun gifts to make ~ AND to receive! Gift baskets afford you the opportunity to give several smaller gifts of a similar theme together. You don't have to use a basket to make a "gift basket" either! Thinking of unique or unusual containers for your homemade gift baskets will add more interest to the whole gift. Making gift baskets are also wonderful for giving gifts to specific people. Cat lovers, dog lovers, book lovers, crafters, college ...

Homemade Button String Toy
The button string toy has quite a history
As children in the 1950's, this was a favorite toy. It is interactive and although it doesn't seem to do much, the hypnotic whirring and the pulling to keep it moving kept us busy for a long time. I don't think that any of us knew or cared about it's history. It was just fun. From Wikipedia - "A buzzer (buzz, bullroarer, button-on-a-string), is an ancient mechanical device used for ceremonial purposes and as a toy." It is an object in the middle of a cord and can be made to buzz by winding ...

Homemade Toys
Back to basics
As part of a Squidoo Challenge, we were asked to create 30 lenses in a new niche. Since I have several lenses on Vintage Trailers and Grandparents raising Grandchildren, I had to think long and hard for a new niche topic where I had some experience. However, it became obvious to me that homemade toys was one that I not only knew about (older person, before video) but something that we could create as a family. Putting our heads together we created the toys shown below. Niles wants a wooden w...