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Welcome to Workshop Wednesday. I'm Steph. I'm Vicki,
and this is DIY for Homeowners by Mother Daughter Projects.
Today we have three segments for you. We have a Closer look, a Fast DIY,
and a Field Trip. So let's get right into it. Time for a closer look.
So as you know,
one of our big sponsors is the Home Depot and we get tools every quarter to try
out and share with you. So these are two of those tools.
This right here is what we're calling the ultimate picture hanging tool.
Yes. And we're calling it that because it is the ultimate,
it is definitely used for other things.
We could have really used this when we made our wall last year. Um,
it's used...you could use it to install ceilings, flooring,
all different kinds of things,
but we're going to use it to hang some pictures today and show you, um,
how this would work. This is definitely not a tool for everyone,
but we wanted to make you aware of this out there.
So if you do have a need for it, that you know that this is a possibility.
So it comes with what you see here. It comes with this right here,
this stand and then the uh, the tool right here, the laser level.
It actually does come off and it comes...you can put it in this bag and then it
comes with this right here.
This is if you need to make a line somewhere and you don't have an object to
stop the, the laser. This works right here,
this little target I guess is what it's called and also comes with instructions,
'cause you know, always read your manual.
And then we have one more tool that we've actually talked about before.
This right here is the laser measure and we love this tool.
We've used for a lot of things but we are going to show you,
a use that we just recently used it for today.
And we want to thank the Home Depot for sponsoring this segment of our workshop
Wednesday.
So we're going to head inside my house and show you how these two tools work.
Let's go!
We're here in my combined dining room,
kitchen and large living space. Now a few months ago,
well, probably more like nine or 10 months ago,
I actually moved the furniture in this direction,
but I didn't fix any of the artwork that's on the wall.
So it is sorely needed to be reorganized and put back on the wall.
So with this laser,
that's one reason why I was excited about getting this laser level,
because I thought, oh, I can get everything exactly where I want it.
So let's get this turned on...move the switch.
And it might beep If it's unlevel or I'm touching it, it will beep.
Pull that back it throws a horizontal line. As you can see,
it goes all around the room on every single wall as well as over the ceiling
horizontally and crosswise. So I can put pictures,
I could level them up at the bottom on this wall.
I can come over here and get them on the same plane as here and I can actually
do that on every single...every single space. I can get them
where they are level. Now would not want to do them all same level.
But I'd like some for continuity and then you can just kind of place them as
they look the best.
And now Steph is going to show you another really cool laser tool.
It's a laser measure and what that is is a really, really fancy tape measure.
So, Steph, head on over to my dining room and I'll bring the ladder to you.
Okay, thank you mom. Well,
I'm going to show you the laser measure and we actually just used this for...we
hung some new curtains here in Mom's dining room, that's where I am.
And this came in handy.
We didn't actually film this so I'm just going to show you what we did and how
this came in handy. So I'm going to put the ladder over here
and this particular curtain.
What we had to do is put a bracket on this side and the bracket on that side and
then put the middle rod through.
So because we were only putting the brackets up first,
we couldn't make sure it was level any other way except using this,
the laser measure.
So what I did is I held up the bracket to where it kind of wanted it.
And then I figured out the distance.
I just had the laser show me the distance and this was seven,
seven feet, seven inches. And then I took my,
and then I attached it to the wall and I took my ladder
and I came back over here and I did the same thing.
And once I figured out the correct distance from the floor that this was to make
sure it was the same seven, seven, and made sure that the dot was on the ground.
You can't see the dot over here. So I'm just going to show you,
this is what the dot looks like, and wherever the dot is,
that's the distance it is going to show you on the levels.
And then I hung this bracket.
So this is a great way of knowing that you're level without having the middle
section to put an actual level on. So that is the laser measure.
And mom showed you the basically ultimate, uh, level, uh,
and both are made by Bosch. And one, I think, again, the Home Depot,
for sponsoring this segment.
Now I'm going to head to my house because I have a fast DIY for you.
And this is one that, uh, any pet lovers out there will like as well.
I am here at my house and as you, as you probably know, I got a dog, uh,
back in November and one of the things that you get to deal with with a dog is
cleaning up after them and all that entails. So I, all I will say is,
you know, I have a dog so I use,
I use these little bags to clean up after her and then I,
where do I throw it away? That's the big question.
So I actually got this thing called a pet genie and it works really well.
You basically put the,
you deposit the bag with wonderful stuff inside in here and then it collects
the, the bags that have been used in here.
And um, there is some in here. I'm hoping not to be disgusting with this, but,
uh, basically you pull this out. Once you've used the them, you pull this out,
you cut this off and then you can throw away the bag of used bags,
we'll say. So, um, this works really well.
I used to have one for my cat years ago and so that's why I got this one.
It works well,
but you do have to continue to buy the little plastic bags for it.
And it does have a smell,
a little bit of smell because that's some strong scented stuff inside. Um,
and I do keep it out on my porch so it doesn't smell in my house or anything.
But I thought,
I wonder if there's a way to DIY this where I can have the same concept but I
don't have to keep buying the bags. And so, um, I did just that. So take a look.
I'm going to show you how I got started with the DIY pet genie.
All you need for this DIY is a five gallon plastic bucket, a screw top lid,
which you can find in the same section as the bucket, some velcro,
odor eliminators, and binder clips.
Put a couple of odor eliminators in the bucket to start with.
Then cut the velcro to size and attached to odor eliminators to the top of the
lid. To attach the screw top lid,
put it in place and secure it to the top of the bucket.
The top will now screw off. All right.
And then I just took little binder clips and I hot glued them right here to the
sides and I put one there, one on the side.
And now all I'm going do is take a plastic bag that I got from a store and I'm
going to attach them to the little binder clips.
And there you have it. It's just like this.
So when I need to deposit something I just put it inside and then I screw on the
top. Now I've actually been using this for a couple of weeks and it works well.
It works just, in my opinion, works just as well as a pet genie.
There is a tiny bit of smell just like there is with a pet genie. Um,
but again, I wouldn't leave this inside the house anywhere. I,
I wouldn't do that. But you can keep it outside because it is, um,
it is plastic and I, I believe it's leak proof.
I haven't had any issues with that. Um, I'm really happy with it.
It's even easier than the pet genie because when you're all done,
when the bag is full, you take off the lid, you take these two off
and you could throw it in...I normally doubled triple bag it and then throw it
into my normal trash and then I'm ready to go.
So this has been a good solution for me and it was pretty inexpensive.
I don't have to keep buying extra bags for it. So, uh, hopefully you, oh,
I also wanted to let you know the little smell things.
They can be recharged just by leaving them out in the sun for a couple hours.
They'd be charged and then they can absorb more smells because this is something
that needs to be the smell needs to be absorbed as much as possible because as
you know, it does not smell good. Uh,
so we're going to head back to mom's house and continue on with the show.
And we're back.
So now it is time for a Field Trip.
For the last couple of weeks we've been really busy.
I went to a conference called VidCon a couple weeks ago in Anaheim, California.
And then right after we went to a conference in Atlanta called, Haven.
This is the third time we've been to Haven.
We didn't go last year and the very first time we went we found it very
beneficial.
We were brand new online content creators and we learned things we're doing
right and things we should be doing a little bit better.
So Haven's a conference for DIYers and designers and people for all different
kinds of content creators.
Well they do these classes and they have fun social events and dinners and
things like that.
But one of the things that people really look forward to when they go to Haven
is the SWAG.
So we got some SWAG and we're going to share with you just to kind of give you
an idea of some of the stuff because there's a lot of stuff that,
that you can do at Haven. And one of the things you want to show right here.
One of the things you do is um, make and take.
And this one was sponsored actually by Arrow fasteners. Those are the um,
stapler people. And we made this, it's a way of learning a new skill.
Using your tools as well.
So what they do at Haven is they introduced new new products or they're just
showing old products and, and giving you the skills to use them.
And we also took a scroll saw class of this actually something we cut out using
a scroll saw. Scroll saws you see are used a lot in signs. People make them, uh,
make signs a lot. Um,
so this was the first time I got to use it was so very cool. So much fun. Yes.
So much fun. And we, um, yeah, we liked it so much that we're like, okay,
that might be be a tool we need to try out in the future.
So if we get it that we will definitely show it with share that tool with you
guys.
So that's a couple of the classes that we took that with just some fun hands on
stuff.
And then...they also introduce new products and one of the companies that did
this really,
really well was Hoover and they're introducing a line of brand new battery
operated cleaning tools like vacuums and floor scrubbers and things like that.
All use the same battery platform, but what they did, what was so cool.
In our swag bag,
everyone got a little puppy and Steph's actually looked so much like Mac.
Yes. But they also brought in real live puppies.
I thought this is really great marketing, yes, but it's also great products.
It's um, if you're my age, you, you, you know, Hoover and this is,
they had brought Hoover into 21st century using the battery platform and also
these have been around for a couple of years, but we have never noticed these.
ut these are picture hanging hooks and you know what,
they came at the right time because we need to go back in there at some point
and put all those pictures back on the wall.
But I learned about these they go right into dry wall without any tools.
And I found a formula for how to hang pictures and I'm not going to give that
away cause we will give that.
We will talk about that when we go back in and hang those pictures.
We also learned about a new chalk paint from Behr that you can get at Home Depot
so this is a spray paint and they also have can version of it.
We also got these cool mugs from Behr and they are Home Depot orange,
which we love. Nice. Keep our drinks cool. And then...Home Depot.
They just take good care of us. They gave, not just us, I'm just saying,
I mean us as a whole, everybody at the conference got a monogrammed towel.
These are their new towel collection. The
Home Decorators collection of towels. I didn't know they had towels.
I had no idea. But this is very cool. They monogrammed them all for people.
So that was very nice. That was very,
it was a great way to introduce their new line. I thought that was genius. Yeah.
So we met a lot of cool people, brands, took classes. It was good time.
And as I said before,
I went to a conference called Vidcon a couple of weeks ago and I actually met
someone named Chris Kelly who owns a company called Production Crate and they
make motion graphics and sound effects and all different kinds of things for
videos. So if you see some new kind of crazy effects in our videos,
that's a thank you to Production Crate and if you need production,
if you need graphics for your videos,
I'll put a link to that below for you to check out.
We just found out a couple weeks ago that uh,
we have a Wall Control coupon code called MDP 15 that you can use at checkout on
Wall Control's website. And that is going to be continued to be active.
So if you are looking to get Wall Control pegboard which is though we have
behind here, we have in most of the rooms in our house, um,
you can get 15% off and that is an affiliate link.
So that means that we do get a small, small percentage um, if you use that code,
so you are,
you're getting a discount we're getting a little something everybody loves and
you're getting Wall Control...you're getting Wall Control.
So we do know some people bought it last time, uh, when the code was active.
So that's exciting. If you want to share what you bought, how you used it,
let us know in the comments below.
And also if you ever want to learn a little bit more about me,
I actually wrote a book and that is available on my website.
Advanced copies are on my website right now and there'll be a link to that
below. Now, if you want to see more Workshop Wednesdays,
you can just click those videos on the screen and you'll see what you've missed
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