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Making an ATV Quad Bike Anti Rolling Bar?It's too expensive on the market in Australia, they sell for more than aud$1000! I won't be able to afford to buy one for my kid's GMX 49cc quad bike. The total money I spent on his mini motorbike is only $299. Does any one know I can make one by myself with the cost of materials at less than $100?

 

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Making My Own Personal Grocery Cart?I am wondering how to make my own grocery cart thing, like the kinds our grandmoms used to bring home a lot of groceries. I know I can find them in stores but I think I can make one out of miscellaneous pieces that I have laying around. Any suggestions?

 

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Homemade Humidifier Treatments?Are there any good home made humidifier treatments?

 

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Using Papaya Sap in Glue?Can papaya sap be an additive component of glue?

 

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Making Oil for Diffuser Lamps?Does anyone know how to make the fragrance that is used in the glass diffuser bottles that have the reeds?

 

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Lampe Berger Refills?Can someone please tell me how to make Lamp Berger oil? I have one for it, but will not work.

 

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Homemade Lampe Berger Oil?Can you use a few drops of your favourite cologne/perfume in your homemade lampe Berger oil or does it have to be an oil based fragrance/essential oil?

 

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Finding Blueprints for a Preschool Classroom Loft?My daughter wants me to build a preschool loft for her daycare. She wants stairs up the side and a market awning on one side. Where can I look at structural blueprints, reminiscent of a corner pulpit?

 

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How Can I Make a Roll Up Puzzle Keeper?I was wondering if anyone has an idea of how to make a puzzle keeper. You roll out the cloth and put together a puzzle on it. You can "roll up" the puzzle and store it to roll it out again later when you want to work on the puzzle at another time. This way, a table or other popular surface isn't taken up and space and be saved.

 

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Ingredients in White Out?Are there any natural resources in White Out? If so, what are they, and how are they used in it?

 

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Making a Wall Holder for an Amazon Echo Dot?Has anyone made a wall holder for an Amazon Echo Dot? It is not always convenient for it to be placed on a flat surface taking up valuable table space.

 

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Making an Adjustable Follower Block?I have quite a bit of DMC floss stored in those floss away bags. I currently am using index card boxes and dividers, but would like something bigger. I would like to store them in a photo box storage. I recently bought 2 from a craft store, but they didn't have the steel adjustable follower block (what you use to make the files stand up straight).

 

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Making a Grave Surround?How do I make a grave surround for my husband's grave?

 

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Making Softwood Pellets?I am looking at picking up a small pellet mill and have access to free softwood dry sawdust, eastern white pine. I have several questions. Has anyone done this? Other then the sawdust, what else do I need? I keep reading other people's posts about using a binder.

 

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Making Hard Wood Stove Pellets?I bought a small pellet machine and I am having trouble getting good hard wood pellets. Soft wood pellets and also newspaper pellets come out fine. Can anybody tell me how to get good hard wood pellets please?

 

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Using Olive Oil as Lamp Oil?I know there's a proper name for the poor quality, high-acid, non-food use olive oil that's preferred as lamp oil. It would not be sold in grocery stores.

 

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Making Note Pads?Is there an easy way to connect paper on a note pad?

 

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Thinning Liquid Paper?What can I use to thin out liquid paper? I find it gets thick too quickly.

 

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Making Lavender Water?I've searched this page several times and cannot find a recipe for lavender water. Can someone help?

 

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Using Dawn Detergent to Melt Ice?What mixture do you use to melt ice with Dawn detergent?

 

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Homemade Shoe Stretcher Spray?How do I make shoe stretching spray?

 

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Olive Oil Versus Lamp Oil?I just purchased several inexpensive oil lamps and I placed them around the house in case of power outage. I decided to do a trial run; I went ahead and lit them, all burning a cheaper Walmart product, Medallion lamp oil.

 

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Makeshift Sink Stopper?I need to find a sink stopper what can I use for one?

 

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Making a Cake Stand?How can I make a cake stand using two glass plates?

 

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Making Paper Pellets for Pellet Stove?How do you make pellets out of shredded paper for a pellet stove? We have a new Englander pellet stove and just purchased a Stak pellet mill and are trying to make pellets from shredded paper. When we put paper into the hopper it shreds the paper to dust.

 

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Making Your Own Ankle Weights?I am looking for ideas to make ankle weights from anything around the house.

 

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Making Your Own AC Filters?A/C filters are getting costly and mine uses 2. Does anyone have ideas on how to make your own? I thought about using quilt batting, but am not sure if it would be too thick.

 

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Mosquito Trap?How do you build a mosquito trap?

 

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Homemade Air Refresher?How do I make homemade air refresher?

 

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Making Lampe Berger Fragrance?What is the correct amount of scented oil you use for 91% alcohol for a lampe berger? My lamp doesn't get very hot or hardly any scent. I can't afford to buy it already made up!

 

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Inexpensive Chair Mat Ideas?I downsized to an apartment that has high pile carpeting. I was told to buy a chair mat for high pile carpeting, but the cost was $120 dollars! Does any one have a suggestion as what I could substitute for a a chair mat or where I could find a more reasonably priced one?

 

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Homemade Thermos?How do you make a homemade thermos?

 

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How Do I Make a Whiteboard?My daughter wants a very large "white board" but the commercially available ones are prohibitively expensive. Does anyone have a suggestion for making one which she can use in her apartment? As a graduate student, she needs a significant space on which to write.

 

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How Can I Turn Styrofoam into Glue?How do I turn Styrofoam into glue?

 

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Making Home Fragrance Oils?Can I use the liquid form of candle scents to add to lamp oil?

 

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Homemade Liquid Shoe Stretch?How do I make shoe stretcher spray?

 

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Making Colored White Out?How can you make colored white out?

 

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Homemade Damp Rid?How do I make homemade Damp Rid?

 

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Making a Cup Holder for a Porch Swing?Does anyone have a good idea for a cup holder on the arm of a swing? These arms are not really wide, but I go outside to "swing" and need something to either hold my coffee cup or tea cup? Any simple ideas? Thanks.

 

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Homemade Dry Eraser Fluid?Does anyone have the chemical recipe to make a batch of dry erase marker fluid? I'm a teacher in Mexico, where the cost of buying dry erase markers is very high.

 

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How Do I Make a Time Capsule?How can I make a time capsule that will withstand underground elements for about 15 years?

 

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How Do I Make a Cover for My Metal Porch Swing?I would like ideas on how to replace or remake the cover to the swing on my double metal porch swing set. It once had a plastic "webbing" type cover stitched to its frame, but this rotted away. I want to keep it simple and inexpensive.

 

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How Do I Make an RV Awning?Has anyone ever made a new awning for an RV? Any tips I should know about?

 

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Make Your Own White Out (Liquid Paper)?How do you make or reuse old White Out (liquid paper)?

 

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Making a Collapsible PVC Pipe Garment Hanger?In a magazine I saw a picture of a garment hanger made of PVC pipe. Being disabled, I must sit to do my ironing, so this would be ideal to have next to the ironing board to hang the ironed clothes on rather than having to get up and down to hang them in the closet one at a time.

 

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Making a Mini Green House?I want to start a small green house inside and would like to know how to start the seeds to be put out later. Any help would be appreciated.

 

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Making Oil For Effusion Lamps?I would love to have the recipe so I can make my own effusion oil for my diffuser lamp. The oil is so expensive when you buy it in stores. Does anyone know how to make it? Thanks.

 

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Homemade Charging Station?Has anyone made their own electronics charging station?

 

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Making Brick Feet Warmers?An old friend heated some bricks on his wood stove, wrapped them in a towel and used them to keep my 'always cold' feet warm in bed during a bad cold snap.

 

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Fragrance Lamp Oil Recipe?I need a recipe for essential oil fragrance for catalyst burner. Can anyone help?

 

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Fragrance Lamp Oil Recipe?Does anyone have directions for making my own catalyst lamp oil?

 

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Whipped Cream Cheese?I cannot find Philadelphia "Whipped" cream cheese in "Fat Free". I bought some Fat Free and am looking on ways to make it into a "Whipped" version. I do not know what to add to the fat free cream cheese in order to whip it; fat free milk? Thanks.

 

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Building a Pet Gate?How can I make an inexpensive pet gate for a wide opening? It will be used inside the kitchen so it will need to look nice as well.

 

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Fragrance Lamp Oil Recipe?Can you use candle fragrance oil in lamp oil?

 

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Catalytic Aroma Fuel?What is the best recipe for mixing fragrance oil to burn in a catalytic burner?

 

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Recipe for Bubble Soap?How can I make bubbles for my little one?

 

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Homemade Shoe Shine Using Gumamela?How do I make homemade shoeshine using Gumamela?

 

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Hose for Filling Multiple Water Bottles Simultaneously?Has anyone designed and made a hose that could fill lots of 2 liter bottles at the same time?

 

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Making Your Own Coffee Packets?To save messing with coffee grounds while camping in our RV, I would like to make coffee pouches ahead of our trips. Then I could just place them in the coffeepot and throw away the used pouch when done. Has anyone done this?

 

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Making Your Own Desiccant Packets for Closet Dehumidifier?Does anyone have a formula for a homemade packet for a closet dehumidifier? In the summer I go through 1 a day in each of my closets, of the tub type sold at Wal-Mart.

 

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Making Lanyards for Water Bottles?I have seen neck lanyards for plastic pop or water bottles. Does anyone know how to make these, or the kind that clips on a belt loop?

 

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Making a Pellet Mill?I need instructions on how to make a Pellet Mill.

 

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Homemade Fishing Bait Recipes?I do a lot of fishing. I would like to find the recipe for making bait that will catch fish easily.

 

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Reed Diffuser Oils?Does anyone know what kind of oil is used in the reed diffuser bottles? I've found sets, but would like to refill the bottles with the bamboo reeds already in them. My oil ran out. Can I use Potpourri oil, or something similar? Thanks.

 

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Making Wood Pellets From Scrap Lumber?I want to know if there is a way to make wood pellets out of scrap wood from my wood shop.

 

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Making Wooden Salad Forks?Does anyone have patterns for wooden salad forks or hands? Thank you.

 

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Making Sawdust Pellets?What is the psi required to compress dry sawdust into pellets for my stove? Also, to what temperature should the sawdust be heated?

 

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Clear Door Canopy?I need to erect a door canopy above an outer door. This is essentially to deflect rain from the flat roof immediately above from splashing against the door. This happens each heavy rainfall, despite there being a guttering in place.

 

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Making a Hollywood Hills Banner?Here is what I would like a banner printed on decent paper that says: HOLLYWOODS with the Hollywood Hills background. Black and White print. Notice the 'S' on Hollywood. You can easily create your own Hollywood Hills Banner by googling 'make your own Hollywood hills banner online'. I have done so already. My problem is that I can't get enough resolution to enlarge the picture to 12 inches high and 6 feet long. I'd like the banner printed on decent paper to decoupage onto a board. Thanks so much for any info.

 

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Homemade Heat Packs for Children?I would like to make a bean or rice heat pack, but I have a few questions. What fabric should you use? Are they safe for children? How long do you microwave them? I wanted to make them for my nephews for Christmas, who are both just under two years old. I worry about them chewing on them. I wanted to make a 2-D pattern of an animal. Any good suggestions on shapes or cut outs to use?

 

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Homemade Rack for a G.F. Roasting Machine?How do you make a homemade rack for a G.F. roasting machine? It roasts a 4lb. chicken and does not have a rack.

 

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Extracting Citronella Juice from a Plant?I know that citronella keeps away mosquitoes. I have access to lots of citronella plants. How do I make citronella juice or extract? I want to mix it with a regular bar of bath soap (how do I melt the soap?). I would also like to mix it with candles to make citronella candles?

 

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PVC Flag Pole?I am trying to make a flag pole out of PVC pipe that goes in the ground. The top is at about a 45 degree angle, and it turns in the wind. Does anyone have instructions on how to make one of these flag poles? Help!

 

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Homemade Saddle Stand Ideas?I want to make my sister a saddle rack/stand for Christmas. I saw some really cute ones that are shaped like horses, and thought that was a fun idea. Does anyone have websites for instructions or other ideas? Thanks so much.

 

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Making Peppermint Oil?Does anyone know what the process is for making Peppermint oil? I have a whole lot of it growing wild. Thanks.

 

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Topics For Cookbook?What topics are needed for a cookbook? I need to keep it narrowed to 8 topics including holiday, desserts, and misc. Any ideas?

 

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Homemade Heat Pack Gets Wet?My son is 11, has Autism and is non-verbal. His para at school has a bean/rice flannel bag that she heats up. He's in love with it! So she mentioned it to me, and that her daughter made it for her years ago at girl scouts. Well I went out and bought dried beans, nice rice, Red Sox flannel fabric and hand stitched it! When I heated it, it got hot but very stinky! Then it began to retain moisture and the flannel began to sweat/feel wet!

 

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Homemade Reed Diffusers?How do you make reed diffusers at home? I love them but they can be expensive for the whole house.

 

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Surgical Spirit vs. Isopropyl Alcohol for Lamp Diffusers?What is the difference between surgical spirit and isopropyl alcohol being used in catalytic lamp diffusers?

 

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Making a Juice Box Holder?Does any body have ideas on how I can make my own juice box holder for my kids? I am tired of having to squeeze my sons juice box from McDonald's into his sippee cup because he can't hold the juice box without squeezing it onto himself.

 

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Making Paper Bags From Newspaper?When I was growing up, my mother who was a public health nurse, used to make paper bags from newspapers. She did this by folding several sheets of newspapers. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks.

 

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Looking For Homemade Clay Recipes?Anyone have a recipe for salt based play clay or porcelain cornstarch clay?

 

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Package To Keep Hard Boiled Egg From Cracking?I have to make a package/container from recycled materials to contain a hard boiled egg which will be dropped off a metre high wall and the egg inside must not crack?

 

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Making Potato Flour?Does any one know how to make potato flour? I Googled it but only came up with sweet potato flour.

 

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Make Your Own Catalytic Effusion Lamp?Where can I purchase the metal section (thrifty-wise!) to make my own catalytic effusion lamp? The instructions for how to make one are on Ebay but the lady selling the kit is a bit too high priced for me. There has to be another source, but where?

 

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Blinds/Shade For A Skylight?We will be moving my daughter into a room with a recessed skylight. Any thrifty ideas for an inexpensive shade or blind? The blinds on line are nearly $200. In my own bedroom, we have the same light, and I hooked up a curtain on two rods, but we can't actually open it or it falls off. I want something in her room that we can close and open. Thanks!

 

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Replacement Filter for My Coffee Maker?My coffee maker has a replaceable water filter. The manufacturer wants $14.95 for two of them. All they are is a small bag of charcoal, or that's what it looks like to me. Anyone out there make their own water filters out of charcoal?

 

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Homemade Ice and Heat Packs Using Rice?How do you make herbal heat and cold packs with rice or feed corn? Does anyone know of easy patterns for these?

 

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Building A Fire Pit?I am wanting to build a fire pit out of large Arizona river rock. Any suggestions?

 

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Home Remedy for Mosquitoes?Is there a home remedy for mosquitoes?

 

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Instructions for PVC Lamp Post?I need instructions for a PVC lamp post.

 

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Making Homemade Glue?How do you make homemade glue?

 

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Alternative Erasers for Dry Erase Board?What can I use for an eraser for a dry erase board besides the traditional erasers? Has anyone used something else successfully?

 

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Substitute Fuel Gel?How do you make substitute fuel gel?

 

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Spoon Rest Ideas?What do you use for a spoon rest when you are cooking? I usually just tear a piece of aluminum foil. Any better suggestions?

 

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Making an Inflatable Snow Globe?How do you make an inflatable snow globe?

 

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Burning Paraffin in a Hurricane Lantern?Can liquid paraffin mixed with essential oil be burned in a traditional hurricane lantern? We currently use citronella oil in these lanterns, so, would it be the same (safety-wise) for the homemade recipe?

 

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Inexpensive Slipcover For Square Ottoman?I have a large square ottoman that is in perfect condition.

 

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Making Frugal Lampshades?How do you make frugal lampshades or recover them?

 

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White Smoke From Homemade Diffuser Lamp Oil?I am making my own diffuser lamp oil and the problem is white smoke. The whole time it burns and that's till the end, I have white smoke. I am using:

 

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Grinding Boards For A Pellet Stove?Is there a cheap way of grinding up old boards so they will fit in a pellet stove to burn?

 

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Making a Door Stop?How can I make a door stop? I know it sounds simple but where do I begin?

 

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