A Rabbit Hutch From an Old Refrigerator?

Something our family has struggled with is what to do when an appliance gives up the ghost and how to keep it out of the landfill.
   Our youngest came home from the Town wide yard sale carrying a shoe box. As soon as I saw the little holes in the top I began to panic. "Oh dear" I thought. "What now?". We have always been a family that winds up with oddities. "Momma you will never guess what I got for the $1.28 I had in my pocket!". I, at that point, figured perhaps a mouse of sorts. He carefully opened the lid and when I looked inside, I saw the tiniest little bunny. I could not say no at that point. We had an issue. What were we to do about housing? My husband and I, after much thought, concluded perhaps the old fridge in the junk pile would suffice. It may work, and it would keep it out of the landfill.
  We took both doors off the the fridge. We removed all the tubes, light fixture, and the motor. We built a frame for the front using scrap shelf boards and some left over chicken wire from the previous years garden. We added a solid panel (made from old plywood) where the freezer door was to adhere the bunny's water bottle to in winter. We also found some scrap sheets of metal that we adhered to the roof and side to help protect our new little family member.
   Looking back, it seems like a crazy idea. It worked. Our rabbit is insulated and safe in his hutch. It works perfectly and since we built it on saw horses, we can move it easily if we need to.
   A simple idea that worked wonderfully!

Clever crib to a desk idea!

I came across this idea online and absolutely fell in love with it. Very simple to turn your baby crib into a "big kid" desk/work area.
  1) Remove a side plus all the hardware
  2) cut a solid base for the desk top. This can be an old piece of plywood.
  3) Get a small tin of chalkboard paint from the hardware store for your base.
  4) if you have an old picture that you are not using, take it apart. Take the glass out. Any craft or hardware store sells rolls of cork. Glue it to the no longer wanted picture (including backboard) and done! Insta cork board.

So many easy add ons- hooks to hold items, a paper towel holder for easy clean up etc.
Use your imagination and go for it!

In my pursuit of new things garden related, I have stumbled upon a great idea from Japan. Easy Potato pots for small space growing! 

   To make this potato pot,

    1) cut the sides out of an old plant pot

    2) place cut pot inside of another pot

    3) add your soil and seed potatoes

DONE! Ready to start growing!

My suggestion is not to bother buying "see potatoes" or anything similar.

All you need to do is take your favorite potatoes and store them in a cool dark place for a couple of months...when they start sprouting...they are ready! I mean really....how many of us buy a bag of potatoes without one or two already sprouting?

Suggestion 2. I recommend reusing pots you have previously gotten other things in...like shrubs, or bush pots. Rather than throwing out a cracked one, it is easy to use the cracked one as the cut one....thus keeping the cracked one out of the landfill.