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I’m trying to get it a little more organized so that I’ll actually use it.

at Better Home and Gardens.. Aren’t they amazing?Don’t you just want to get to work on some Easter baskets right now?

The only problem is that there will be another trillion brilliant ideas to copy again by this time next year!.So how about you?Did you get any basket crafting done this year?.

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Follow my blog with BloglovinThis post will probably give you a little bit more of an insight into my failings as a mom, but that’s OK!

If you’re human, you might just have the same failings and we can cheat our way through these things together.. Do you ever have one of those moments when you think you’re being a super fun mom, doing neat things with your kids, making treats, and generally being awesome?We held everything together with clamps in every direction to make sure things would dry to be straight and strong.

After a couple of hours, we removed the clamps and we were good to go!.The lower shelf was created in much the same way, using a long piece of pine shelving and then adding strips of two-by-two all around the edges to give it a chunkier, more substantial look.

We’ve created a few different counter tops this way around the house and they always turn out beautifully.This set up looks a bit like some kind of medieval torture device, but it’s really just a matter of adding a clamp (or a ratcheting strap) to each piece that needs to be held in place until the glue dries.