Kate Kotler - DIY Diva

02 Oct 2009

DIY Diva: Composting Bins for Under $20

Heyo- the DIY Diva here with part two of my “grossest project yet” post about building composting bins. So, faithful readers, I took a bit of crap last week from commenters who objected to my post about the process of researching how to build a composting bin to prepare mulch

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25 Sep 2009

DIY Diva: My Grossest Project Yet

Heyo – the DIY Diva here with my grossest, most disgusting project yet.  Today I’m going to talk today about building my very own composting bin. I just moved to an apartment in Oakland which has a huge backyard.  My housemates and I have discussed starting a sort-of urban farm

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18 Sep 2009

DIY Diva: Cool Striped Cuff

Heyo – the DIY Diva here with a throwback craft that will take you back to your Girl Scout/Boy Scout days around the campfire roasting marshmallows with your BFF. Remember when I said that I couldn’t knit for shit?  Well the thing that sucks about is that in attempting to

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12 Sep 2009

DIY Diva: Chicken Coconut Soup ala Kate

Hey-o the DIY Diva here!  Can you believe it’s already September?  I totes magotes can.  You wanna know why? Because last week my housemate and I both came down with killer head and chest colds. We spent most of Labor Day weekend laboring to cough phlegm out of our belabored

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04 Sep 2009

DIY Diva: Crafty DIY Bath & Beauty Products for the Ladies (or Metrosexuals)

Heyo – the DIY Diva here with a practical quartet of crafty do-it-yourself bath & beauty products that you can make for yourself or as awesome gifts for your hipster friends. I don’t know about you, but I could easily – EASILY – spend a $100 per visit in the

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28 Aug 2009

DIY Diva: Shit, Why Can’t I Knit?!?!

Heyo — the DIY Diva here. When BAS asked me to write this column I kind of giggled a little bit. Because I am possibly the least crafty person I know. Seriously, I have never scrap booked, decoupaged, crocheted, sewed or knit a damn thing in my entire life. I

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21 Aug 2009

DIY Diva: Cheapo Pet Toys To Please Your Pussy & Puppy

Heyo — the DIY Diva here with this week’s on-the-cheap craftacular project for all you out there in Broke-Assland. Pets are absolutely, positively a luxury and not something for the broke-ass.  Though I am a broke-ass and have a dog.  And, I bet you either have a dog/cat or know

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14 Aug 2009

DIY Diva: No Sew Fleecie Blankie

Heyo — the DIY Diva here. You know how sometimes, when you’re coming down off of some weird pharmaceutical that a sketchy friend gave you the night before in a dive bar, you get the chills? A new warm blanket would be the thing to have in those situations. This

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