Great idea. Another thing is to remember to check your Christmas trees before bringing a live one into your home. One of our funniest memories as kids was when we had a praying mantis egg nest hatch in our house that was on a Christmas tree. The warmth of the house triggered the hatch and we had hundreds of tiny little praying mantises (manti?) all over the house. We realized what had happened when we were awakened by our mother screaming when 20 or so of them decided to join her in bed....LOL
Refreshrestyle D thank u for sharing, did not think of this and have lots of them packed in boxes I picked up and just love the huge one in Carolina, they are so nice.....at one point in time I was going to make the ones u toss in the fireplace and sell with a nice aroma, was going to sell them to wood stove places too, an idea just have not done it
i was told another way to remove bugs and prepare pinecones for use in potpourri is to dunk them in a bleach water solution! Haven't tried it yet but that would be an even simpler way to get those little buggies out!
@Joline Cosman: Google "lake tahoe pine cones". We recently ordered a bunch from this particular company (http://www.pinecones.us/) and had really good luck with them. The Jeffrey pine cones are HUGE (and awesome). Otherwise, I see this other company offers similar services: http://laketahoepinecones.com/
Joline Cosman there are lots of HT people on here that live in Carolina and they have huge ones there, they are so nice and mayb someone would send u some, I had got some about a foot long and 4 to 5 inches wide, beautiful......
Sharon, if anyone out there would like to offer me a huge pinecone, I would gladly pay for the costs to ship it !!!!! I just think those huge ones ore soooo coooool !!!
I have to admit, I never thought about them having bugs ! Doesn't the oven dry them out too much, or just enough ???
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Joline Cosman I just noticed that Melissa that wrote above u here lives in N. Carolina, mayb she has some to spare, write her......she says she has some but not sure what size but they are huge there......
Vikki Gavin if you just search pine cone ideas, u will find more than u can use.....make frames, baskets, if u have a fireplace......make scented ones for it to toss in, orns. for your Xmas tree, put them in a basket with lights like I have done with greenery and some fake apples and lights up...or use those big cans u buy at Xmas time or now actually with popcorn and stuff in and they make a ice holder for the same thing to set
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out or a gift......I have even made a picture frame with them that has a mirror and put lights around them for the wall, also used a picture frame the same way and put pictures behind the glass...so many ideas to do, just search it and even on here, search HGTV.....many ideas there for sure, hope some of these have helped!!!!
Haha Leslie, my mom used to order praying mantis eggs for her garden. one year set some in her bay window and forgot about them. Wellllll, my chair at the table was right next to the bay window. One morning I saw them hatching and started stomping on the floor and screaming....she was just below in the basement doing laundry. I'd never seen my mom come up those steps so fast! *LOL* We were big pranksters in our house!!!!
I have to admit, I never thought about them having bugs ! Doesn't the oven dry them out too much, or just enough ???
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Thank you so much for yours, Sharon !!!
So Melissa ??? Do you have huge pinecones where you live ??? LOL