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Sylvia B

Portland, OR
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  • with gold leafed edges
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Gilded Framed Agate Coasters

I took a set of four blue agate coasters and gilded the edges with gold leaf. Then, I framed them in shadowboxes to display in the master bedroom. I like them both ways!
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Design OCD
Design OCD Atlanta, GA
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  • Pallet fence panel before trimming the rotten wood and painting. 2
  • Pallet fence panel after trimming and painting.
  • The fence is being installed. 2
  • The garden gate was made from pallets too.  The arbor was made from my childrens' old sandbox.  We cut the large boards down to build the arbor.
  • The fence is almost finished.
  • Here is a picture taken from my bench at the back of the garden looking towards the arbor.  The fence is complete.  Now on to making the garden look pretty.  This will take awhile. 1
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Re-purposing pallets

This is a fence I made for my garden using pallets and old pickets from a fence that had been torn down. When I ran out of the old pickets, I used pallet boards and cut them to match the ...»
pickets so I could complete the project. My fenced area is 30' X 40' and I still had pallets left over for other projects.

Allison House
Allison House Sumter, SC
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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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THE IMPATIEN Dilemma

Donna Dixson
Donna Dixson Buford, GA
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Beautiful Small Home Interior Design

through http://homedesignjournal.wordpress.com/
Ricky
Ricky New York, NY
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  • Master bedroom in Teal and Gold with gold drapes and art work in purple, gold, deep blue and rust 5
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Teal and Gold Bedroom

Marina Klima Goldberg
Marina Klima Goldberg Morganville, NJ
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  • My living/dining area. I've added a TV since this picture was taken, but that's about it!

Do you have a New Year's Resolution?

Confession time! This is my living/dining room. As you can see it is stark, white and minimal. I'll admit, I like it that way ~I'm odd like that :) but I've decided it's time to make a change and inject some color. I think New Year's Resolutions should be about challenging ourselves to do something that will ultimately make us happy (funny how we sometimes resist that), so this is mine. What's yours? Please use this hashtag in your post so we can all see it: ...»

#NewYearsResolution

Miriam I
Miriam I New York, NY
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  • a minimalist living room

minimalist furniture anyone?

discussing minimalist decor on my blog today...
House Crazy Sarah
House Crazy Sarah Canon City, CO
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    Commented on Nov 05, 2012
    My idea of a relaxing environment!
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