Category: DIY
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Quick 2 Bean Salad
Where I’m from, it gets hot. Like stupid hot. The kind of hot that makes you want to crawl into the freezer to get some relief. With the summer, comes a lack of appetite for my husband and I. It will get just so hot that we just don’t get hungry. That means I have…
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Turn Bread Heels into Homemade Breadcrumbs: Waste Less, Enjoy More!
Does anyone out there actually enjoy the heels of the bread ? For me, its my least favorite piece. And because I have the attitude “Waste not want not” When it gets to those pieces I will usually wind up putting them in the freezer. And very rarely will I use them. I don’t think…
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Transform Your Old Dress Shirt into a Stylish Apron
Recently, my husband noticed that a few of his shirts were ready to go in the garbage. One had a hole, and the other was too tight. Well, they were still perfectly good pieces of fabric otherwise, so I saved them from the landfill, putting them in my never ending project pile. I had seen…
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Dandelion Oil
I decided that I wanted to do something with skin care. So I heard about how Dandelions actually have anti-aging properties when used in skin care, as well as loads of other benefits. So first I had to dry them (which was in the previous blog post: Drying Flowers ) And now that our flowers…
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Preserve Nature’s Beauty: A Guide to Drying Flowers and Understanding Its Benefits
Flowers can be dried and used in many different things. Salves, Soaps, or even making teas and adding to bath salts or bath bombs. Many people will think about drying flowers as something hard and time consuming, but in reality, while it is time consuming, hard it is not. There are different types of ways…