We finished the twig ornament project over this past weekend. Our group was comprised of two guys breaking sticks, two girls with hot glue guns and several comedians to keep us in stitches while we worked on the ornaments. Three hours later, we had a count of twenty plus ornaments and sore fingers from breaking all those twigs, but life…
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. I think I’ve heard that song at least ten times this year already. We can’t avoid it any longer, can we? Christmas is almost here. Winter is raising it’s ugly head for many of us… and so is the snow. With the snow comes the cold. Like it or lump it,…
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We have a big Christmas get-together each year and as a tradition, we make homemade ornaments for everyone. There’s almost forty of us, and it’s never on Christmas day. There is just too many of us. We ALWAYS try to make these ornaments on the cheap, and I’m usually the one who has to come up with the idea… or…
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Learn how to paint fake cow spots and make your own diy faux cowhide lamp shade. While hauling stuff out of the basement for the remodel, I came across a torchiere lamp. I’ve made four piles while de-cluttering: salvage, sell, donate and toss. This particular lamp is in good working condition, but it has water stains on the lamp shade,…
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Are you one of the lucky ones, who has a dishwasher? Not me… No matter how much I update this townhouse kitchen, it will probably never have a dishwasher… and forever be dependent on a dish pan, or two. It does have central air conditioning, though. That I could not live without. But as I digress, when we finished…
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