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How to make Faux Brick Wallpaper

Faux Brick from the iPhone

The problem: half a wall in white sheet rock, the other half in brick.

Solution: I took 15 images of the real brick with my iPhone, laser printed them out on uncoated 32 lb, 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Tip’s mosaic artistry to match the mortar lines+ numbering the sheets on the back to keep them in order + Zoffany wallpaper paste. Problem solved!

Transition from Brick to Wallpaper

Transition from Brick to Wallpaper

Faux brick bridges the gap to Morris&Co WWI era paper
iPhone photos, heavy paper + Zoffany paste

Our faux brick

BigSlider™ helps a neighbor start up business

One customer used her Professional model to help a neighbor…
“I used it to help my neighbor move some cases in her trailer the other day and it worked awesome! She is starting a business in Bronte. She is going to do monogramming and silkscreening. Her husband saw me later in the week and he was very impressed!”
–LR, TX

“ToolGirl” Mag Ruffman’s How to Move a Tree review

After all the suspense, you finally get to read Mag Ruffman’s review — rather than hearing about it from breathless Canadian customers. Very informative and entertaining – Thanks, Mag!

http://www.toolgirl.com/toolgirl/2010/08/inky-dinky-slider-how-to-move-heavy-stuff-singlehandedly-with-no-screaming.html

Go Mag Ruffman, ToolGirl! Wheelbarrow Alternative, Green Packing

“There is a regular DIY column in our paper written by Mag Ruffman. She featured it and said it was a great product. It just happens that I was looking for an alternative to the standard wheelbarrow for my new home.

Regards, AB, Nova Scotia”

We just received an order from Nova Scotia, and FEDEX ground is the only way to get the Heavy Duty Tray to Canada at a semi-reasonable price. Our packing is very “green” since the Heavy Duty Tray, rope and handle are so tough that we just cable-tie and tag them. Your only waste is six HDPE cable ties, which are #2 recyclable.

Jeri

Mag Ruffman, the ToolGirl, loves BigSlider

As you know from our prior blog Mag Ruffman, Canadian extraordinaire of ToolGirl fame (toolgirl.com), gave glowing reviews to BigSlider™ Professional model in her weekly column. So far we’ve had purchases from both Nova Scotia and British Columbia. Hopefully we’ll migrate inland now.

We’re going to post the review in about a week when she puts it up on her blog, but in the mean time here’s what she said in our email correspondence…

“…congratulations.  Your Big Slider is a great product – it’s my favourite new tool, and believe me, I have a lot of tools!”
Mag

Thanks for the kudos Mag, and we can’t wait to read and publish the full review.

Jeri

Widow rebuilding her wood patio deck in Nova Scotia

Here’s how I found out about our Mag Ruffman (toolgirl.com) review!

“I live in a small village not far from Halifax. In our local paper “The Halifax Herald” on Fridays they add a small paper called Homes. In there  is a well known lady from Ontario who teaches all kinds of carpentry, demonstrations on how to repair every thing, her name is Marg [sic] Ruffman, she writes a page every week, also  I have been following her TV programs and our paper for as long as she has been around. She is super smart, down to earth and kind of funny. A fantastic carpentry etc teacher.


Last Friday she had a one page write up on your product( with pictures of her taking out a tree out of the ground and pulling it around her yard). She had nothing  but praises about your product.

Being 68 and widowed for 12 years i do all my own work, I just finished demolishing my patio, all except the base which is is good condition,new floor stairs and railings. One problem I always have is how to for example:- drag my large air conditioner into the back of my Blazer to take it for inspection also how to move large outdoor pots filled with earth, I usually use old carpets cardboard, 2″ x 4’s whatever I can think off, now I can use 2′X4′’s to put between the porch and the back of my blazer and zip it into the back of it.  WOOOWWWEEE  Maybe in winter i can use it as a toboggan. Heck it would be fun.

Needless to say as soon as I saw your sliding carpet i wanted it ASAP to say the least was wowed.
I cannot wait to receive it. I am sure it will save me a lot of back, neck and shoulder aches, and i will not have to eat too many advils.
Ohhh the joys of getting older.”
– RS, NS

Old Dogs Learn New Tricks

“It really is a tool and a toy. I pull my children around, and now my dogs won’t walk to the mailbox with me any more. I have to pull them on Bigslider.” — MD, TX

Remodeling: Don’t sweat the ’small stuff’

“The BIGSLIDER works great. I was having a lot of remodeling done and had to move 4 rooms of “small stuff” out of the house. Small stuff translated into over 50 boxes. BIGSLIDER was a backsaver. After the floors were finished, I used the BIGSLIDER to move furniture back into place and also used it to protect the new hardwood floor while I put felt under the heavy furniture. I don’t plan on using it to slide anything over my new hardwood, but I will use it anytime I need to move things over the carpeted areas. I don’t plan on using it outside, so I cannot comment on that use.

I would recommend the BIGSLIDER to anyone who needs to move items over carpet.”

– GLP

Widow finds a way to move heavy pots

“My husband died a year ago, and I’m always looking for ways to move things by myself. I have a lot of heavy pots and need to move them when I clean the deck. Plus, there’s furniture to move around inside the house.”

– BR, CA

The Gift that keeps on giving (to your father or father-in-law!)

“purchased over a year ago for father in law , he states he loves it and uses it often to move heavy items when doing yard work and moving firewood”  – ADM