The Handy Goddess

Hightlights from the Handy Goddess

Handy Goddess — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:35:14 +0000

Video highlights from the Handy Goddess “Yard Fountain Installation”, “Moving a Doorway” and “Patio Swing Makeover” video series. The video highlights DIY home improvement tips and demonstrations from the Diva of Demolition and Design

Guest Appearance

Handy Goddess — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:59:22 +0000

I had a recent appearance on Youtrax News!

Cushioned Painting – A Patio Swing Makeover (Part Two)

Handy Goddess — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:29:47 +0000

Goddess paints an abstract art creation on primed canvas. She then sews cushions for her patio swing using the old cushions as a template or pattern in this diy home improvement project demonstration. For more painting and faux painting instruction go to http://fauxfun.com

Metal Urges – A Patio Swing Makeover (Part One)

Handy Goddess — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:59:33 +0000

Go to Faux Fun for more faux painting demonstrations. In this episode The Handy Goddess paints an old patio swing to look like blackened bronze. She demonstrates exactly how paint a faux finish using easy to find materials and simple painting techniques.

Moving a Doorway, Part 5 – Butterflies & Jampots (Episode two)

Handy Goddess — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:29:12 +0000

The Handy Goddess (Barbara Wurden) invites a graphic artist (Johnny Francis Wolf) to assist in painting his graphic art on her wall. She’s only met him online and smitten by his art, his emails and some old photos… she learns the hard way that if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck… it may not be a duck.

Moving a Doorway, Part 5 – Butterflies & Jampots (Episode one)

Handy Goddess — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:36:18 +0000

The Handy Goddess (Barbara Wurden) invites a graphic artist/actor (Johnny Francis Wolf) to assist in painting his graphic art on her wall. She’s only met him online and smitten by his art, his emails and some old photos… she learns the hard way that if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck… it may not be a duck.

Moving a Doorway, Part 4 – A hole in the wall

Handy Goddess — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:17:40 +0000

The Handy Goddess (Barbara Wurden) frames and constructs a wall to fill the hole where the original door was removed when she changed the placement of the door for her art studio. She also shows you how to find a stud in the wall and then she plasters over the entire wall and does her painting foreplay before she applies a “Sponge Weaving” faux finishing technique. You can learn more about her faux painting techniques at her faux painting technqiues website.

Moving a Doorway, Part 3 – Hanging Out

Handy Goddess — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:11:27 +0000

The Handy Goddess (Barbara Wurden) crashed through her wall and proceeds to frame out the space for her doors. She then installs disassembled door jambs and hangs the doors for the new entrance into her art studio in this diy home improvement door installation demonstration.

Moving a Doorway, Episode 2 – Wall Crashing

Handy Goddess — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:35:02 +0000

The Handy Goddess (Barbara Wurden) whacks off her studs and then she rips off the plywood wall by cutting all the way around with her magic saw before she shows you how to hang the door for the entrance into her art studio in this diy home improvement project demonstration.

Moving a Doorway, Episode 1- Demolition Day

Handy Goddess — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:28:33 +0000

The Handy Goddess (Barbara Wurden) begins her home improvement project by deciding to move the doorway in her art studio to a location that walks out to the yard fountain. In this episode she clears away old construction and termite damaged wood using primarily physical strength and the magic saw to prepare the space for the new doorway.