Thrifty Fun!

Saturday was a real cheap-skate bonanza around here.  First, we made this less-than-ideal, but still completely functional DIY lightbox for my wife to transfer embroidery designs onto fabric.  It’s pretty much just a lamp in a box with a pane of glass over it.  The glass was re-purposed from a large frame we happened to have laying around, and which needed to be dismantled anyway.  We taped up the sharp edges with electrical tape, and viola!

Second, while taking out the garbage, I noticed that our neighbors across the alley were getting rid of a rather dirty and wobbly wooden stand of some sort, which was missing its shelves.  Well heck, I thought, I bet I can find something to do with that, so I cleaned it up, tightened the Ikea-style bolts, cut a piece of scrap wood for a shelf, and ended up with a perfectly serviceable garden-stand-thingy.  I’ll scavenge a couple more pieces of board for shelves, slap some stain and varnish on, and we’ll have a nice place to store extra pots, tools, etc.  It even has handy pegs for hanging towels or whatever.  I get much more excited about this sort of thing than I ought.