The Feral Turtle

Thursday, April 30, 2015

A Timeout Stool

The secret to great children is

"Always Eat Dessert First"!

If you don't

then you will probably need a time-out stool!

Cutting A Circle On A Table Saw

It was a day of planting trees and fighting off swarming bees.

grow my little babies!

After picking up never ending storm remains and fighting off more bees......

I backed into this pile only to get a sliver in my butt!

I also cut two circles on a table saw.....I really did.

(and fought off more bees)

and didn't cut my fingers off...

You can see how to do it on this YouTube video.

I don't think Mr. Circle guy invented the wheel but he

showed me how to make one, so cheers to him.

I found this cool thing on Pinterest that involves circles, which I would show you,

but then I would have to kill you and hide your body in my

basement somewhere, and that might smell.

After all, I just finished cleaning it out.

But do stay tuned to see what becomes of my tablesaw circles.

No harm will come to you!!!

I PROMISE.

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Source

Now to find a mirror with ample magnification

for butt sliver removal.

Cheers.

Friday, April 17, 2015

The Beating Hearth Goes Public

My dear bloggy friend Heather, from

The Beating Hearth,

created this treasured one of a kind pillow for me!

I guess she must like me or perhaps she's waiting for me to win the lottery so I can share my winnings. I am pretty sure it's the latter as my odds are pretty good. I buy a ticket usually once a year and I am banking my retirement on it.

And now you can have one of her gorgeous works of art too!

She has finally started her own business, and will create

custom quilts which will surely become treasures.

Here are a few examples of her creative talents at work.

You can jump on the bus and

visit her at

THE BEATING HEARTH

Cheers

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Reclaiming My Basement - Part Two

After consuming half a Costco chicken due to nail breakage (fingernails not finishing nails), I was ready to tackle room two.

Moving shelving units around and sorting through Mr. FT's beer brewing hobby, left me feeling good about who the hoarder in the family really is!

KIDS eh!

Yikes. I went to the local building store to pick up a transition strip...
$32.99 for what I don't even think was an eight foot piece. FOR ONE PIECE?????
Who likes matchy matchy anyways.

This gorgeous wall covering has to go....Is't like epoxy coating meets flaky pastry.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated and pondered

while I start on the second half of that chicken.

Cheers.

OH NO

Look what happened last week

How can I be sad about a tree when I am looking at this guy!

Señor Pickle

Monday, March 30, 2015

Reclaiming My Basement Space

I have basement envy from my fellow blogger

Amy at Stow and Tell U .

Check it out!

She's also the dear friend that surprised me with this beautiful

speckled mason jar!

It will be perfect for my spring lilacs,

and also this gorgeous Herb Chart all the way from Salem Massachusetts.

I feel almost witchy with this in my possession. I am now practicing spells! It still hasn't worked on the basement clean-up but I try everyday.

Pocus mundatis FUNDAMENTUM

That might be Witchcraft for

Hocus Pocus...Clean The Basement!

After weeks of sorting, sneezing, and many

visits to the local waste engineer,

a.k.a The Dump Guy, the basement was ready for phase two.

And this was a picture of the VERY best part of the floor!

You can see my first and second attempt of a clean-up

here

and here

Phase two.......Flooring

Just cheap flooring that I could walk on without having to put on my big rubber boots.

Part two of the new floor coming soon. I have a large bookcase that my grandpa built full of books to relocate and then I will be on my knees again.

"MOVERE HOC SCRINIUM"

that means move this bookcase in witchcraft!

UNBELIEVABLE.... it worked!

Stay tuned!

Cheers from

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Activated Charcoal Soap

I really needed a shower after clearing out my storage room.

Wading through the junk and spider webs,

I asked myself, "Self, why do you have this crap?"

Self decided that we really didn't need this crap, and made numerous

trips to the recycle outlet and dump....yes some of it was just plain crap!

Anyways, back to the shower.

I needed a bar that could scrub off basement renos

This batch of soap I will title

"Activated Charcoal Cleaning out the Storage Room Sweaty Dust Bustin Soap"

Please follow all safe soaping procedures with the right safety

equipment if you are going to make this soap!

1 oz. Pumpkin Seed Oil

1 oz. Cocoa Butter

2 oz. Shea Butter

3 oz. Castor Oil

9 oz. Coconut oil

2 oz. Hemp Oil

8 oz Olive Oil

7 oz Palm Oil

2 oz. Beeswax

2 Tsp. activated Charcoal

1.5 oz Lavender Essential Oil

1.5 ounces Peppermint EO

7 oz Water

4 oz. Coconut Milk

4.8 oz Lye

I mixed my coconut milk with water in a 500 ml. canning jar in the sink. I slowly added the lye to the water/milk mix and stirred with a wooden skewer. I was wearing my gloves, long sleeves and safety glasses!

I added all of the hard fats into the bowl. I used to use stainless steel bowls but found these
Betty Crocker bowls at our local Dollarama as they have pouring spouts.

The lye solution is poured into the hard fats and stirred until it is all melted wearing all my safety gear.

The liquid oils are added to the lye / hard fat solution. Using this method, I no longer have to melt the hard oils as the heat from the lye solution does that job for me! After I stirred it so that the oils were mixed with the lye thoroughly, it was separated into two bowls. I added lavender EO to one half, and peppermint EO and charcoal to the other half. I layered my mix as I poured it into the mold.....again, still wearing all my safety gear!