Welcome to my adventures in home
improvement, household/craft projects and cooking. Over the past few years, I’ve taken an interest preparing
homemade items that are less expensive, often healthier and fun to create. I started scouring the internet looking for
tips and guides on all manner of topics.
Rather than littering the house and computer with all manner of
notebooks, bookmarks and documents, I’ve decided to compile all the designs, notes,
recipes, successes and failures here at “Doin’ Sh*t With Pat”
I was really in to punk music and the
D.I.Y. thing growing up and started looking for ways to apply those attitudes
in our house. I tend to get very
enthusiastic about new recipes, projects or a different way to re-plumb the bathroom doorframe. My wife (Hello Heather!) can barely tolerate
the constant projects with ingredients, notes and canisters populating our
house. So I will be aggressively
de-cluttering the house, making new recipes and defiantly doing things a little
differently.
So this entire train got started when I
ran out of aftershave one evening and found a simple recipe for Bay RunAftershave. Shortly after completing
that I researched information on repairing a sagging doorframe. Next I moved on to making liquid body wash;
and then it was homemade chocolate sauce.
On and on it went discovering clever projects and easy ways to make
household products, meals, desserts and improvements in the home.
Another piece that nudged me toward this blog was when I began looking for a simple laundry soap
recipe amd ran in to some issues with measurements. There were plenty of simple recipes but they
did not fit my needs. There were
different measurements that did not coincide; some used a ½ bar of soap and
others used 1 cup of soap flakes. On
top of that was the problem of batch size and converting gallons and pints down
to a manageable volume.
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After doing some calculations I was able
to prepare the laundry soap and test the product. Although I struggled finding a recipe and editing it to fit my
needs, I found it rewarding and the process made me wondered if anyone else
experienced a similar frustration. So I
will be posting about the projects I undertake, including recipes, pictures and
the interesting outcomes.
Check back soon for new projects, pictures
and stories…
