Hey peeps! We were super geeked when Jocelyn from The Home Tome asked us to write a guest post for home improvement month (aka HIMP). And when I say geeked, I mean mouth-breathing-fanboy style hyperventilating, because we get to talk about tools, baby! Is there anything in life we love more?* Maybe. But only marginally. Check out our post to learn how to pimp your toolbox and then stalk The Home Tome for more home improvement excitement. Huge thank you to Jocelyn for letting us participate in HIMP!
* We would have posted about this yesterday, but we spent the day driving to the ginormous Grizzly Industrial warehouse to look at power tools. Seriously. Here’s Bradley posing in the parking lot when we arrived:
And here he is 2 seconds later, running inside and leaving me fumbling with the camera, “Can we take one more, just in case?”:
We walked out with a biscuit joiner, biscuits and some wood glue — all the stuff we need to finally build our bedside tables. Commence mouth-breathing.
Thank YOU for the excellent and entertaining tool-torial! I am wallpaper-ing our shed with those informative photos right now.
Is it just me, or would Biscuit Joiner be a sweet name for a band? You in?
We ALMOST named Margot “Biscuit Joiner.” Not kidding. Bradley really wanted to get started on the bedside tables and we ended up spending the money we set aside for a biscuit joiner on dog adoption fees instead. He still tries to put her to work in the shop — no luck so far.
Ha ha! BJ for short
Can’t wait to see those bedside tables and learn what kind of magic a biscuit joiner can work.
B & L,
Very nice tool-torial. We have a hard-sided, pop-up handle, rolls like a suitcase tool box. Since we work on that house in Garland (3 hrs from here), it comes in handy for moving any and just about all our tools from one house to the other in the trunk of the car. It’s a Craftsman. I thought it would be indestructible. We haven’t had it a year, but already, the the pop-up gizmo that you push to make the handle come up has broken. BooHoo. We can still make it work, but it’s officially “SHOT”. haha I think my favorite “tool” that you wrote about was that paint can opener gadget. I don’t have one of those and SteveO is in the middle of painting the exterior of our house now. We may have to have one.
Mom/Mlaw
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