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Beverly L

Norfolk, VA
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  • using a clean glass jar, apply removable adhesive labels of your choice (i used round labels from the office supply store)
  • turn your jar upside down to prevent paint overspray + apply several light coats
  • once dry, gently remove the labels
  • add a layer of glass floral beads or sand. this protects your surface from heat damage from a long-burning candle
  • i love the playfulness of the dotted design 1
  • but he's even prettier as the sun sets! 1
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Mason Jar Luminary

Looking for a modern design for your space? This luminary is a fresh + modern spin on the Mason jar. Visit the blog at the link below for a more detailed tutorial.
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Sarah Krouse
Sarah Krouse Murrayville, GA
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  • End of June toping the 3 ft cage 1
  • July 9th after a week of record high temps and very little rain...the plants here are loaded with tomatoes inside the cage and full of blooms too!

Tomatoes and their need for water

I started may 28th planting 4 tomatoes around a garbage can with holes drilled in the bottom rim and a second row up about 10 inches... buried the can to where the top holes just barely ...»
were above the ground... put in two shovels full of compost... then I fill the can up with water ever 2 days and try not to water the leaves... these four plants are now 5 ft 4 inches in less that a month and a half and loaded with green tomatoes and about a hundred sets of tomato blossoms...

James Bryan C
James Bryan C Crab Orchard, KY
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    Love this idea...grew up in your area...Tyrone...many relatives in Port Matilda at one ...»
    time...I only plant Sweet 100's in pots...going to try putting a jug in the pots to use your method...We're right on the beach and it gets awfully hot so plants normally dry up quickly..TKS for sharing

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  • Before:  you can actually see how greasy and dirty the cabinets had become 1
  • After:  white and clean

How to easily remove grease build-up from your cabinets

This is just a simple little story about how I finally got all the grease off the cabinets above my stove. ...»

I have had a dirty little secret!Everyone always tells me how clean my house is. It's not really. Not since I've had kids. You've seen those cute little signs, Excuse the mess, we are busy making memories or Excuse the mess, we live here? Well that's not really my style. In fact, my house is nothing like the clean it used to be before the kids. I've grown more accustomed to the mess, but so many little things tend to get over looked these days. Many people have exciting goals like running a marathon or skydiving (and I may have just become the biggest loser because I just googled Common goals people have, because I couldn't come up with 2 good ideas), you know what I've always wanted? To put my house on the market and have the ad say, "Mrs. Clean lives here". I'm not kidding, I actually told my realtor I wanted that on my add. She said, your house will sell itself. OK, she was right, but I really wanted that at the time. One thing I've been over-looking lately is my kitchen cabinets. I'm home cleaning today and thought, maybe today's the day to get that grease off the cabinets. Now keep in mind, these are just the cabinets over the stove, and grease is always building up on these cabinets. I wipe down my cabinets frequently, since they are white and show any dirt, but I do tend to "overlook" these top cabinets because I never could seem to get the grime off with much success. I have those god-awful therma-foil and for lack of a better term the surface is "pockey". That means there is a little texture that allows dirt and grease to accumulate. The picture shows best how greasy these cabinets were. I've tried many products before, but today I decided to go for some simple soft scrub and a warm dish rag. I love the lemon scent and use this for a lot of my cleaning. I poured it on my dishcloth and just rubbed it on the grease, and just like that, all of the grease and grime came off. I've tried many other cleaners and de-greasers and seriously never got such great results with barely any elbow grease at all. I might suggest if you are working over your head that you wear some protective eyewear, because trust me when I say, you don't want your break from cleaning to involve trying to get soap out of your eye! Just sayin. Check out the before and afters. It's really pretty amazing!

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Diane Kaul Commerce Township, MI
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Repurposed galvanized tubs

Old Galvanized tubs I turned into a planter
Kim Harmeyer
Kim Harmeyer Cincinnati, OH
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Can anyone tell me what this is and how to get rid of them? I found 4 of them eating my tomato's.
Denise O
Denise O Miami, FL
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    We don't normally get humming birds in our area and was so excited to see these little ...»
    'humming birds' in my yard...only to find out they were the result of the tomato hornworms....LOL!!!

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  • How many times have you thrown food away because it spoiled before you ate it?
  • We changed our approach to food and have stretched our savings and food stores by using these few tricks.
  • Buying nuts in bulk is cheaper, but you don't want them to go back.  Separate them into air tight containers until you're ready to use them.
  • We freeze our own beans!  We soak them and divide them into meal size servings and lay them flat to freeze.
  • We portion our meats and freeze them.
  • Just make sure to label the freezer bag with the date and remove as much air as possible.
  • We do this for all our meats - chicken, ground beef, ground turkey, pork loin steaks. 3
  • TIP! Save all your chicken scraps, skin and bones, as well as any vegetable scraps.  I store them in a freezer bag and once the bag is full, I slow cook the scraps into a broth.  I let the broth cool and skim the fat, then store it!
  • For portion control, freeze your cookie dough. We fly through a batch of cookies in a few days.  Roll the dough into small balls and freeze them.
  • Transfer them to a freezer bag with the baking instructions on the outside.  Only take out the number of cookies you want to eat.
  • We make our own granola.  It's so easy, just find your favorite recipe and make. Much cheaper than store bought without all the preservatives. 1
  • One of our biggest money savers is making our own pizza.  We buy frozen dough in bulk.  We've made our own pizza sauce, too.  Each pizza comes to about $2.75! 1
  • Making your own bread may be daunting, but it's really quite easy.  One recipe we use makes two loaves.
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Stretching Your Grocery Budget

I share tips and tricks to stop wasting the food you buy.
Noting Grace
Noting Grace Henderson, NV
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    I have a hard time cooking for just 2, but have found I can cook just like I use to when ...»
    cooking for 5, but freeze smaller batches and it's already cooked when I'm too busy to cook. Love the freezer bags that I can remove the air from...frozen food lasts longer in them! TKS for new tips...oh, 1 tip I can share with you...I buy the boneless pork loin and cut it into chops. Instead of $3.99 a # I pay $1.99...for $2 I can cut my own. Easier if you freeze it just a little before cutting.

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  • By removing the doors on the cabinet, backing it with beadboard wallpaper and trimming out the corners with shelf brackets, there is now more open display space and the cabinetry feels a little more custom 4
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Modernizing an 80's Oak Kitchen

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TheKimSixFix San Francisco, CA
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  • Before shot of our kitchen. It is on the small side and was very dark. 1
  • We tore out our existing backsplash and created a custom hood above the cooktop. I opted to use Annie Sloan Chalk Paint to help me achieve the french country feel I was looking for. Working on finishing up the rest of the cabinet doors 4
  • Old Ochre paint and new knobs. 3
  • I use a moist sanding block to sand with. It keeps the dust at bay and makes a buttery smooth finish.
  • Dark wax applied to help age the cabinets.
  • It is a long process to achieve this look but to us well worth it. 1
  • I stil am working on finishing up the remainder of the cabinets but am just thrilled with how far our kitchen has come from where we first started. 1
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Creating a French Country Kitchen Cabinet Finish Using Chalk Paint

We are in the midst of a mini kitchen DIY reno. Hubby finally caved and agreed to let me paint our wood cabinets and I created a french country rustic feel for them using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.

From My Front Porch To Yours
From My Front Porch To Yo... Humble, TX
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    Girlfriend, You are doing an awesome job...tho you try and make it sound like easy work, I've ...»
    done some of this type of thing and it's HARD work... That thing you feel is me patting you on the back...LOL!!!

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Sun Room/Porch Enclosure in West Chester, PA

Pine Street Carpenters & The Kitchen Studio at Pine Street
Pine Street Carpenters & ... West Chester, PA
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  • Putting in a towel bar on non-functioning drawers added a layer of functionality to the cooking zone
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Our Budget Kitchen Makeover

Working with our existing floorplan and appliances over the past year we livened up our kitchen with a few cosmestic updates. We painted our cabinets in Ben Moore Simply White and Anchor ...»
Gray, added in Lansa hardware from Ikea, created open shelving, replaced the faucet and installed a glass and marble mosaic tile backsplash

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