For People Who Like to Sweat, Swear & Do Stuff
From how to make your own Starbucks Latte to building a chicken coop, browse hundreds of DIY tutorials and How-To Guides covering Food, Garden and Home projects you had no idea you needed to do.
It's Christmas!
Ideas for cooking, crafting, wrapping, & relaxing
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Wintery Food
It's chili season.
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About Karen
My name is Karen Bertelsen and I was a television host. In Canada. Which means in terms of notoriety and wealth, I was somewhere on par with the manager of a Sunset Tan in Wisconsin.
I quit television to start a blog with the goal that I could make my living through blogging and never have to host a television show again. And it’s worked out. I’m making a living blogging. If you’re curious, this is how I do that.
So I’m doing this in reverse basically. I’m the only blogger who is trying to NOT get a TV show.
Recent Stuff
In order of appearance starting with the latest ...
- This Year's Christmas Wrapping
- A LIVE Eggnog Making Demonstration
- The Easiest Way to Look Younger
- A Wedding Story
- The Christmas Gift Guide for 2022
- My New, New Living Room
- I Threw Half of My Sectional on The Front Lawn.
- This Year's Christmas Wrapping + puzzle
- My Cable Company Story
- Making Homemade Potato Chips. Can You Halfassedly it?
- Said Good-Bye to My Therapist Today
- The Pie Dough Recipe. A Crust of Butter & Lard.
- Edgar the Spider. A Halloween story.
- Happy Halloweenish Puzzle
- Betty's All Better for $1,000
- Halloween Ghost Bride
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The Posts That Made Me Famous
Thanks to Google, Pinterest & Design*Sponge (RIP) these are my most popular posts of all time.
- The Modern Chicken Coop
- How to Make a Tree Stump Table - DIY End Table
- You've Been Growing Your Zucchini Plants All Wrong
- How to Make Homemade Hamburgers - My Way
- The Backyard Ideas Post! 26 Tips & Tricks For Creating A Beautiful Backyard.
- Have a Ryobi Battery That Won't Charge? You Can Fix That.
- Growing Your Own Loofah Sponge - Step-by-step
- How to Build Interior Window Shutters.
- Halloween Craft. The Pumpkin Diorama - An Update.
- How to Make a Pumpkin Pie from Scratch with a Real Pumpkin.
- How to Recover a Chair in 5 minutes
- How to Avoid UPS Broker Fees From Online Shopping.
Vegetable Gardening Tips for This Fall
"To call planting a seed gardening is like calling boiling a pot of water cooking. Gardening is everything that comes before and after the seed is planted."
karen bertelsen
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Bad Day? These'll Make You Laugh.
At the very least you'll grin at these stories of my misfortunes.
