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Thought? I think the colors might be a little too much.🥺
11/07/2025

Thought? I think the colors might be a little too much.🥺

I repurposed my grandmother & great aunts' crocheted doilies... what do you think?
11/07/2025

I repurposed my grandmother & great aunts' crocheted doilies... what do you think?

Opinions l'm not sure how l feel
11/07/2025

Opinions l'm not sure how l feel

Can't decide between the 2 lamps. Please help. Thankyou x
11/07/2025

Can't decide between the 2 lamps. Please help. Thankyou x

A decorator didn't bother painting the top of this door. I won't use him again.
08/07/2025

A decorator didn't bother painting the top of this door. I won't use him again.

Shower door just exploded wtf do I do/who do I callAlso i am in the ER. The door fell on me like something out of final ...
08/07/2025

Shower door just exploded wtf do I do/who do I call

Also i am in the ER. The door fell on me like something out of final destination but I managed to dodge the worst of it.

This is my master bathroom. What can I do for this large gap between my sinks. It needs a lot more pizazz and your ide...
08/07/2025

This is my master bathroom. What can I do for this large gap between my sinks. It needs a lot more pizazz and your ideas will help!!

My boyfriend has been holed up in his garage workshop for the past month working on this project and I finally got to se...
04/07/2025

My boyfriend has been holed up in his garage workshop for the past month working on this project and I finally got to see what all the sawing and sanding was about!

He connected with this family who has a little girl with cerebral palsy that outgrew her toddler bed. They needed something with higher sides for safety but couldn't afford the specialized furniture that costs thousands of dollars.

He spent weeks researching adaptive design features and talking to other woodworkers on the Tedooo app who had experience with accessibility projects. He even drove two hours to meet with the family and take measurements so everything would be perfect for their daughter's specific needs.

I love watching him work on projects like this - he gets so focused and particular about every detail. He keeps saying "it's not as fancy as some of the stuff you see online" but honestly this thing is built like a tank and is going to keep that little girl safe and comfortable for years.

The family is picking it up this weekend and he's more nervous than he was when he proposed to me! He's already planning his next project for another family who reached out through Tedooo.

I knew I loved this man for a lot of reasons, but watching him use his skills to help families who really need it just makes me fall for him all over again.

Sometimes the most beautiful furniture isn't made for show - it's made for love.

You guys, I can't believe how much my life has changed since I started making these tire planters last year.I was in suc...
04/07/2025

You guys, I can't believe how much my life has changed since I started making these tire planters last year.

I was in such a dark place when I got pregnant - twenty-two, totally broke, and living in this awful studio apartment with a balcony the size of a postage stamp. I kept seeing all these expensive planters at the garden center and just wanting to cry because I couldn't even afford a $15 pot, let alone fill it with soil and plants.

Then I walked past this tire shop and literally just asked if I could have their old tires. The guy thought I was nuts but whatever, free is free!

I had zero artistic skills but I was spending way too much time scrolling on my phone feeling sorry for myself. That's when I discovered the Tedooo app - not just for buying stuff but there are these amazing DIY communities where people actually help each other figure things out. These strangers became more supportive than my own family had ever been.

This mosaic pattern took me like three tries to get right but now look at my little balcony garden! Those roses are blooming their hearts out and I actually grew enough cherry tomatoes last summer to make salsa.

Plot twist - people started asking where I got my planters and now I'm selling them on Tedooo! Made enough this month to finally buy my daughter some of those fancy organic snacks she loves.

Funny how throwing paint on old tires turned into the thing that saved my sanity and my bank account. Life is weird sometimes.

My daughter hasn't called me in six months, and I built this garden to remember what it feels like to nurture something ...
04/07/2025

My daughter hasn't called me in six months, and I built this garden to remember what it feels like to nurture something that actually grows.

She used to love helping me plant flowers when she was little. Tiny hands covered in dirt, asking a million questions about why roots grow down and stems grow up. We had this beautiful garden at the old house - roses she helped me pick out, herbs we'd cook with together, tomatoes that turned into sauce for family dinners that felt like they'd last forever.

Now she's twenty-eight, living three states away, and too busy for phone calls. Too busy for visits. Too busy for the woman who spent every Saturday morning teaching her that beautiful things take time and patience to grow. The last time we spoke, she told me I was "too needy" and needed to "find my own life."

So here I am at fifty-four, squeezed into this tiny apartment after selling the house that held every memory we'd made together. No yard, no garden, no daughter who wants anything to do with the woman who raised her. Just me and this fire escape, trying to figure out how to fill the hours that used to be filled with her voice.

Someone in our neighborhood chat sent this photo yesterday asking "what's this beautiful setup and how do I make one?" I got so emotional seeing my little garden through someone else's eyes - like maybe I had created something worth noticing after all.

I started small with seeds I ordered from a gardener on the Tedooo app who sent the kindest message about "growing hope in small spaces." She included extra flower seeds and a note that sometimes the most beautiful gardens come from the deepest heartbreak.

The bottom shelf holds my coffee, a book, a photo of her at age seven with dirt under her fingernails. The top shelf is for what's growing now. Different flowers, but still beautiful. Still worth tending, even if she'll never see them.

Had to share here because maybe some of you understand what it's like to keep growing beautiful things even when the person you most want to share them with has forgotten you exist.

My mother always said I'd never amount to anything without a man to take care of me, and I spent forty-seven years provi...
04/07/2025

My mother always said I'd never amount to anything without a man to take care of me, and I spent forty-seven years proving her right.

Two marriages, both ended with me getting nothing but debt and the crushing realization that I'd never learned to take care of myself. Never learned to use tools, never learned to build anything, never learned that my hands were capable of creating instead of just serving. My whole life I was either somebody's daughter, somebody's wife, or somebody's mother, but never just me.

When my second husband left last year, I sat in this empty corner of my apartment and cried for three days straight. Not just because he was gone, but because I looked around and realized I didn't own a single thing that was truly mine. Everything had been chosen by someone else, bought by someone else, arranged by someone else. Even the furniture was "ours" and somehow that always meant "his."

This corner stayed empty for months. I'd walk past it every day and feel this ache, like my life was full of spaces I didn't know how to fill. I was scrolling through social media at 2 AM one night - you know that desperate lonely scrolling - when I saw this butterfly shelf design. Something about it just broke me open. Butterflies transform, right? They don't stay caterpillars forever.

I found the woodworker who designed it on the Tedooo app. When I messaged him about having it custom made, I told him my whole pathetic story. Instead of judging me, he said his own sister had been through something similar and that building this shelf would be like building wings. He even included detailed instructions so I could assemble and paint it myself.

Took me three weekends and more YouTube videos than I care to admit, but I did it. Every crooked flower I painted, every slightly uneven shelf, every small victory of figuring out how to hang it properly - that was all me. For the first time in my life, I created something beautiful with my own two hands.

Now when I sit here with my coffee every morning, surrounded by plants I chose and books I love, I remember that I don't need anyone else to make my space beautiful. I can grow my own wings.

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