An attractive set of hot plate mats can be easily made with ordinary clothes line that is finished with a fringed edge. Clothesline is treated heavily with sizing and is subject to much shrinkage. Soak it well in hot water to relieve all foreign matter and to prevent any shrinkage after the mats are made. […]
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Stay At Home Mom Reinvents the Fanny Pack for a Water Bottle
Joey Carlile has been credited with creating “the fanny pack of today.” Her Orange County, California based company, JoeyJean Inc., makes a new kind of fanny pack that goes around a water bottle and holds your keys, cell phone and other necessities while jogging, walking or working out. Carlile invented her modernized fanny pack to make her […]
Acorns and Leaves
Where we live there are literally thousands of acorns falling off the oak trees! Somebody told us last year that if there are tons of acorns, it means we’ll have a bad winter, and that the squirrels will be storing them as fast as they can to make it through the long cold winter. Well, […]
How To Make A Fabric Dollhouse
Oh boy! Did I ever find a good one for you today!! A fabric dollhouse that is just as cute as it can be. And like we mentioned last week, there’s plenty of time to get some of these made up for those little girls on your Christmas gift list! Our quadruplet grandbabies just turned […]
Recycle CapriSun Containers
A couple of years ago my granddaughter, then a senior in high school, made CapriSun purses. Small purses, just what all the girls wanted, and she sold TONS of them! She sold them for $15 each, and had a waiting list for them. Now if I’d been smart, I would have watched her make them, written […]