We're a company that has been making shutters, doors and folding screens here in southeastern Pennsylvania since 1989. Our mission has always been to make high quality products that are decorative and functional. To help minimze our footprint on the Earth all of our sawdust, since the very first shutter we ever made, has been sent to local horse farms for bedding.
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View my blogHow to make Vanilla Extract
By kestrel
Recently DIY Maven was kind enough to pass along a very yummy recipe for a Mrs Fields cookie with chocolate chips and m&ms. In telling her how fantastic they were I mentioned using my homemade Vanilla. This resulted in her wanting to know how this was done. In a one word answer…easily.
We do a lot of baking in my house and Vanilla Extract is one ingredient that we go through way too fast. Several years back I tried my hand at a few homemade cordials that pretty much involved flavoring a base alcohol with one fruit or another. When we started going through bottle after bottle of Vanilla Extract I figured the same principal should apply.
I looked online and found multiple recipes that called for combining Vanilla » READ MORE
Clothing Your Closets in Style
By kestrel
We’ve all seen them. The closets that we use to hide things. It’s your washer and dryer surrounded by a growing mound of clothes. Your childrens toys that have multiplied and your hoping will be contained in the closet. Or perhaps it’s that slightly embarrassing collection of black velvet Elvis paintings you’ve collected over the years
Maybe you actually use your closet to hold clothes. Did you recently go to great lengths and expense to organize your closet with an array of shelves, slots and drawers so that each and every shoe has it’s own little home?
Regardless of what your
closet holds, the doors all seem look the same. Flimsy, hollow white things, mass produced in metal, finger jointed wood
or some unknown plastic.
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