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Irene

Montclair, CA
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About Me:

I like to garden. Flowers and vegetables. I love to find new succulents and have them growing in several flat planters with several different varieties. So pretty. Making quilts by machine or hand. Quilting mostly hand quiling and some machine quilting. Crochet and knitting.

Favorite area of home improvement:

My favotite area of home improvement is just trying to keep the house dusted and cleaned up. That way I have more time for the things I like to do. I do love to read about all the great things that others do to improve their homes. I recently saw a shower curtain made with a white sheet and it hade rows of pleated striped favric across the bottom and the same stripe across the top. So so pretty. I can make one for my bathroom and make a curtain to go with it.


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  • A mini garden in a book 4
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  • add a bookmark with key 1
  • cut out section of pages
  • Plant garden in clear plastic pot liner and insert in pages
  • add a mini door from popsicle sticks and accessories
  • Used with tablescape for secret garden tea party
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Mini Garden in a Book

Transform a thrift store hardback into a fun mini fantasy Garden - easy DIY on blog- can be adapted to different book's themes.
Christina
Christina Quakertown, PA
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  • Irene
    Commented 2 days ago
    I like the idea of a cactus garden and succulents. With sand and tiny pieces of dead twigs ...»
    laying on the sand and some pebbles. At halloween it could have tiny head stones and a couple of cow head skeletons. I don't even know what is available in tiny decorations but it sounds good to me. Things could be changed for other holidays. I love the idea of using a book for a little garden.

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  • Ants lying in Windex. 2

ANTS? Easy, Safe Solution!

An exterminator told my friend that when you begin to see ants, they are the scouts. Stop these and you won't have ants. My son discovered that if you spray them with Windex (or any other glass cleaner), they are exterminated. Keep after it for a while and you won't have ants. We have used this for years. 2 days ago our humming bird feeder leaked onto the concrete front porch...the liquid got down in the crack between brick and concrete so there was not way to flush it out. Ants ...»
appeared quickly, I sprayed them with Windex. Watched through the day and kept spraying them. Now ant free! Safe for kids, pets and environment! It is worth a try before you spend hundreds.

Jeanette S
Jeanette S Atlanta, GA
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  • Irene
    Commented 2 days ago
    Boric acid is very poiseness. If you have small children I wouldn't use it for anything. I ...»
    wouldn't use it on or around pets either.

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  • Stackable hangers keep 3-4 items in the space of one
  • Extra shelving comes in handy for extra clothes, purses, jewelry bags and other essentials

Make the most out of a small closet

Our bedroom closet measures 3x2x10 and for years we have struggled to make our clothes fit. We recently added 2 shelves with room for one more, plus I discovered Space Bags and these ...»
nifty stackable hangers. Both are great space savers. In addition, since we also share a dresser, I purchased a cloth closet and some baskets at the $$store to use for all my personals. I can't stand anything on my floors so if you are wondering where I keep my shoe collection it is in another closet hanging on a shoe tree.

How have you solved your space issues?

20 Minutes 40 Easy
Dee W
Dee W Rock Creek, OH
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    Commented 6 days ago
    I plan to use the shelf for undies and bras and socks and anything else lightweight. If they ...»
    have one that seems to be strong enough i'll put some cardigan sweaters on a couple of shelves. The shelves on Amazon had some kind of wood in the shelves. I don't know how strong it is but if necessary sp I think they could be reinforced with some light weight wood from HD. I would wrap the wood in some muslin. Three years seems like a nice amount of time for your cloth closet. I can see that you take good care of it. Do you remember what kind it is? That sounds like a good one. I live in Montclair, Ca. Just thought I would add that since I see that your are from Rock Creek Oh.

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Dee W
Dee W Rock Creek, OH
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  • All you need to make 
homemade dishwasher detergent.
  • Just mix the ingredients together.  Add 1 T. to a full load.
  • To learn more about the ingredients, visit:  http://www.seasonedhomemaker.com/2013/05/homemade-dishwashing-detergent-2.html 1

Homemade Dishwasher Detergent {for spot-free dishes}

While cleaning out my kitchen for an upcoming move, I ran across the ingredients for homemade dishwasher detergent that had been sitting around unused. ...»

The recipe is simple, the result is even better. It cleans your dishes and there won't be a residue left in the dishwasher.

What could be better.

All you need:

2 C. Borax

2 C. Baking Soda

6 oz. LemiShine (available at Target, Walmart, and most grocery stores)

Mix together. Use 1 T. per full load.

The Seasoned Homemaker
The Seasoned Homemaker Austin, TX
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  • Using easily found items and created items, I was able to create a fairy garden - a great project with my children.
  • Fairy gardens can be in any size and can be customized for a thoughtful gift.
  • Although ready made items can be found online or in garden centers, we chose to make as many of the elements as we could.

Fairy Garden

A fun and quick project that is great to do with your kids. We did this last spring and we keep updating it for the seasons. We tried to "think out of the box" in terms of the house and furniture to come with fun options.

Finding Home
Finding Home Middletown, NY
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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!

Easy
Diane Kaul
Diane Kaul Commerce Township, MI
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Got Junk?

Shelley @ Sow and Dipity
Shelley @ Sow and Dipity Canada
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  • May 28th 2012 4
  • 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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  • Irene
    Commented on Apr 08, 2013
    I put my extra strong tomato cages with the thick plastic covered wire in the ground I take 2 ...»
    wooden stakes and put them on the inside of the cage up against the wire one stake on each side of the cage and pound them into the ground firmly. I then have no problem with the cages tipping over when the plants get large and heavy. Just be sure to pound the stakes into the ground about a foot or so.

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  • This is the bag it comes in if you want to check your local Big Lots 2
  • Here it is popped open and upside down
  • on top of a large pot
  • completely covering plant all the way to the ground
  • ready to be tucked away!
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Great Find for Covering Plants

Good morning everyone. I was at Big Lots yesterday and came across a collapsible mesh laundry hamper for only $8. I decided it would be perfect for covering plants in containers or on the ...»
ground, to protect from birds, or from the Phoenix sunshine. It worked out great. I will check the dollar stores and see if I can maybe get more. The $8 one is a nice size, 16 inches in diameter. It even folds away when I don't need it!

Robyn
Robyn Phoenix, AZ
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  • Irene
    Commented on Apr 03, 2013
    Thanks for the great idea. I'll check the .99 cent store and dollar store. Maybe Dollar Tree ...»
    would have them too.

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