Today I have a tour of my houseplants for this summer. I got a few new ones so I figured a full tour was in order. Also something tragic happens in this video.... And I have a little clip of vivi being adorable :)
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When we bought our house a couple of years ago we were gifted this table. It needed refinished then and it has taken me this long to decide how I wanted to go about it.
My husband wanted it to be all wood still and not painted (I was thinking of painting it teal) but I really wanted a natural finish so I decided just to sand it all down and figure out what to do after that.
I kinda thought that it would be best to do something very durable like a polyurethane (so toxic) but I didn't want to do that for a whole bunch of reasons. So then I thought, well maybe I should do something natural like an oil finish or something, but those aren't particularly very natural either so I just decided that the table isn't even solid wood so who cares if the wax turns out awful and it gets all messed up. So I made the wax and boy am I glad I did!
In the video I show you the steps I took and I give more details on how it has been working out the last few weeks.
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The Wax
30 g of beeswax
90 g of coconut oil
Melt to combine in a double boiler
Apply warm for a deeper saturation or cooled for easy buffing.
Today I have a video with a garden update! I know its only like a day after the other garden video but thats because I lost my camera.... It's black and when I set it on my black table it blended right in so.... But now you don't have to wait for the update! Yay for time travel! So in this video you can see how much all my baby plants have grown, and some new plants that I planted because I just cant stop!!!!! I'm still planting and it's like 100 outside but everything is living because we have mulch now, YAY!
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Hey guys! I basically just have a video for you today where I show you our new raised garden beds for our veggie garden and and update on my flower pots and some flowers that I planted. I have a few of these updates coming your way so be sure to check back or subscribe! Watch the video directly on youtube by clicking here or down below.
Todays video is pretty cool. I have a box that my grandma gave me that I thought would be way awesome for some sort of outdoor table/storage/seat but I wanted it to look more finished so I made a stain and I also ended up waxing it with a homemade wax. (I'll post a video with that diy in it next week.) Also, my knife block was looking a little worse for wear so I painted it with chalk paint and distressed it a bit. I like making my own stain because its crazy cheep and I like to avoid toxic junk as much as possible. The milk paint is a great alternative to other paints because it sticks on really well, you can get non toxic varieties pretty easily, and you can pretty much put whatever finish you want on it. In the case of my knife block I used mod podge because I had it on hand and it works so well as a finish especially for something that doesn't get crazy dirty and need a lot of scrubbing. I mean if you knife block needs a lot of scrubbing then I don't want to know what your doing. Enjoy the video and as always you can watch it on you tube by clicking on the youtube-y thing on the video or following THIS LINK.
For the stain you basically take distilled vinegar, add in nails (rust), steel wool (gray), pennies (kinda blue green), or tea (tea), coffee (dark brown coffee color) or walnut shells (walnut, haha) and you get basically the color you would expect after letting it sit for a few days to a couple of weeks depending on how rich you want the color to be.
Then just apply with an old rag for a large surface or for something smaller a paper towel works fine. The paper towel starts to just break down after a bit so if you are staining a large surface then a rag works better.
