Adventures Home Improvement: March 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

It's Time for My Easter Nests

It's that time of year to make my favorite Easter treats.

( reposting from last Easter)

These nests are so easy to make and taste great!

You'll need a 1/4 cup of butter, a bag of chow mein noodles and a bag of marshmallows.

Melt 1/4 cup of butter and 2 cups of marshmallows on the stove for about 6-8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Once the marshmallows are melted, turn the heat off and add 4 cups of chow mein noodles. Mix thoroughly.

Use a really clean muffin tin. Rub butter in each spot.

Put a bit of the mixture in each spot. Use butter on your clean hands too so you can push the mixture around to create the nest. This recipe makes about 15 nests. If you want to make more, buy two bags of chow mein noodles for each bag of marshmallows.

Put them in the freezer for a couple of hours, then carefully remove the nests with a butter knife.

I put some parchment paper down, then put the nests on that.

Add M&M's, Robin's Eggs or jelly beans as the 'eggs' and you're done!

Thanks for your visit!

Pam

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Simple small home designs.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Beautiful Versatile Armoire

In 2003, my husband built this beautiful, solid maple armoire. It held our old, big tv perfectly in our family room. It was so heavy. It took 6 people to carry up our hill and in the back door to get in the house.

A few years later, we upgraded to a new tv and needed to repurpose the armoire. Since the time it was originally put in the family room, he had remodeled our kitchen with a huge island. Luckily we were able to clear the island by one inch (!) to get it out of there! We again enlisted several friends and down the hill it went. He cut it in two pieces to make it easier to move around. It then became a wine cabinet in the living room. It was easier to move, but was by no means whatsoever, easy to move! It was still a beast!

We were lucky that when we moved out of that house, we had movers. We put it on the main floor of this house, so it was easier to manuever for the movers.

A few weeks ago, we got new furniture for our living room, the armoire again had to move. My husband must have huge respect for my strength, because he was sure the two of us could move it ourselves. Not a chance! We were lucky to have strong visitors soon after who helped us get it out to the garage...

There, he again refurbished it. This time he cut off the back to straighten it off rather than have it fit in a corner. He couldn't reuse the crown moulding, so made his own! Yes, he's amazing!

Today he was finally ready for it to go back in the house and was sure that the two of us could get it in our room and lift the upper part (about 300 pounds worth!) onto the base. Again, not a chance! Luckily we had strong neighbors around who helped us.

After we got the top portion on and he secured everything, he then reattached the four doors. The upper doors weigh almost 25 pounds each! He has a mechanism in there so the doors slide back into the sides and are out of the way.

Now it is in our master and again holds a tv. It is my favorite piece of furniture that he's ever built and I definitely wanted it where we could see it daily. The details that he added make it such a beauty. I'm so happy to have it back in the house.