Mark Christmas Presents With Numbers Instead Of Names
For years we would find wrapped xmas gifts but with no tags so we didnt know whose was whose. After I moved away from home my mother explained that she used a dot system. She would pick a corner of the wrapped gift and mark it with dots (so many dots for each...
Pack Clutter Into Trash Bags and Organize Later
I use a similar idea. I gather all the clutter together and put it in a tote. I then use the tote as a coffee table by my chair. As I sit and rest, I can open the tote and sort out a few items to be put away and when I get up I take those items and put them...
Replacing Liquid in a Barometer?
Our barometer holds colored water. I just take some distilled water and add some concentrated food coloring. I mix it together thoroughly and pour into the barometer.
Halloween Themed Party
Black garbage bag stuffed to make head and remaining bag cut into 8 legs for giant spider, black foam vegetable cartons cut into bat shapes (glow in the dark eyes work great with these. Also small ones can have pin attached to make jewelry), use string or yarn...
Donate Your Crafting Supplies in Your Will
Another group to leave your craft supplies to is your local Girl Scout troop.
Holder for Organizing VCR Tapes?
My granddaughter had an extra dresser drawer in her bedroom and that is where she keeps her VCR tapes.
Dealing With Lady Beetles?
I use a cordless hand vac and go around and sweep the bugs up. Then I go outside and release them. On bad days I have had to do it three or four times but have discovered that I now have a lot fewer bugs inside. Each year there are fewer and fewer by using...
Using Herbs to Repel Bugs?
I plant basil between my tomato plants to help keep them bug free. I also use peppermint, sweet basil, and mosquito plants by my doors and around the deck where we sit.
Use an Indoor Clothes Line
We use three folding drying racks which hold 1 load of laundry. Drying our clothes on drying racks has increased our house humidity during the winter so we dont have the expense of using a humidifier.
What is This Plant? (Strawflower)
Strawflower---If you cut them before they are fully open and dry them, thet are great fot crafts.
Garden Themed Ideas for Girl Scout Daisy Troop?
For Daisys we made flowers by tracing our hands and cutting them out, taping them to a green pipe cleaner, gluing a large pom pom in the center and taping some leaves underneath. We also made a hummingbird feeder out of a water bottle. I put wire through the...
Garden Themed Ideas for Girl Scout Daisy Troop?
For Daisys we made flowers by tracing our hands and cutting them out, taping them to a green pipe cleaner, gluing a large pom pom in the center and taping some leaves underneath. We also made a hummingbird feeder out of a water bottle. I put wire through the...
