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  • You'll need: mason jar or baby food jar with sealable lid, kitchen sponge, hammer and nail, heavy-duty string, sponge, sugar, scissors, saucepan and flower stickers or decorative tape (optional). 2
  • 1. Prepare "butterfly food" by mixing nine parts water with one part sugar. If you are using a mason jar for your feeder, use tablespoons, and if you are using a baby food jar, use teaspoons.
  • 2. Using a nail and hammer, punch a small hole in the center of the lid. A piece of a sponge will need to fit snuggly in the hole, so keep it small – you can always make it bigger if necessary.
  • 3. Cut a 1/2 inch strip from your sponge, then pull it through the hole in the lid so about half of the sponge is sticking out from the top – you'll want the sponge to be a tight fit.
  • 4. Before you tie any string around the jar, decorate your jar with brightly colored stickers, construction paper or washi tape. Flower shapes and bright colors are great options, because they'll imitate the real deal.
  • 5. Use your string to make a hanger. Flip your jar upside down. Tie some string around the neck of the jar (slightly below the lid).  Cut two more pieces of string that are about two feet long.
  • That's it! Now you can hang your feeder outside. It will work best if it's placed about six inches higher than your tallest flowers. 3
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Make a DIY Butterfly Feeder in 6 Easy Steps

Don't underestimate the butterfly – it's more than just a pretty garden addition! There are 561 known butterfly species in the United States and Canada, all of which pollinate your ...»
flowers. Encourage butterflies to visit your yard and pollinate your plants by making a butterfly feeder. It's easy!

Full tutorial: https://brightnest.com/posts/attract-butterf...

Note: Some evidence suggests dyes may have negative health effects on humming birds. If you have humming birds in your region, we suggest making this sugar solon without dyes and making your jar extra colorful, instead!

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  • Mix to your desired consistency, apply, wait, scrub (only a little), then rinse.
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Homemade Cleaner: Two Ingredient Soft Scrub

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  • The ingredients of my DIY laundry detergent recipe
  • Final product: Powdered laundry detergent!

DIY Laundry Detergent Recipe -- Really Works!

I made laundry detergent from washing soda, baking soda, Borax, and castile soap. Here's the recipe: Now you need to measure with a tin can (just a regular tin can, like the kind that ...»
corn comes in). In a large container with a tight-fitting lid, mix 3 cans of Borax, 3 cans of baking soda, 3 cans of washing soda, and an 8 ounce bottle of castile soap. I found that stirring didn't work very well, so I put the lid on the container and shook it up really well.

I have been really pleased with this detergent. Dissolved in hot water (it is not as good in cold water), it actually removed stains and oils, and it makes the laundry smell really clean and fresh.

10 Minutes 10 Easy
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DIY Pull-Out Cupboard Drawers

This is a post from a long time ago, but the project is one of my favorites. DIY pull-out drawers for old, deep cupboards are a MUST! I don't really know what I did without them! ...»

#Organizedhome

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Creatively Living Richland, WA
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10 tips to a cleaner house for you and your family

Tips and tricks to encouraging cleanliness, decluttering, and chores in your kids.

Tricks like the "laundry basket store", using a timer, even the use of junk drawers and closets!

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Janel Hutton Cushing, WI
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  • Operation: 30 Days to an Organized Home by Design Build Love

30 Days to an Organized Home (garage, bathroom, kitchen, closets, pantry, cabinets, budget, money, and more!)

With a huge backlog of projects to write about, and a ton more in the

pipeline, I realized that there was one common thread. No matter how

much DIY, building, or painting was involved, the bottom line of all of

these projects was pure organization! So, for 30 days straight, I shared an array of projects, tips, and tricks to beautify spaces, change interiors, and make home and life a

little more organized!

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  • All-Purpose Household Cleaner, Baking Soda Freshener, and Green Disinfectant
  • Green Disinfectant
  • Baking Soda Carpet and Upholstery Freshener
  • All-Purpose Household Cleaner
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Homemade Cleaning Products - Green and Natural

Here are three of my favorite homemade cleaning products I make - they are green, safe, cheap to make, and actually work! Recipes for an All-Purpose Cleaner, Carpet and Upholstery ...»
cleaner, and a Green Disinfectant. These are so much safer than commercial cleaning products as they do not contain toxic chemicals, keeping your children, pets and air quality safe.

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My Merry Messy Life Atlanta, GA
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  • All it takes is a some wool yarn and a few simple household items.
  • Begin by winding the wool around two fingers.
  • Keep winding until you form a wool ball about the size of a tennis ball.  Stick the yarn tail into the ball using a blunt needle.
  • Add several wool balls into an old panty hose leg.  Tie dental floss between wool balls.
  • Wash in the washer on hottest setting.  Run through dryer on hottest setting.  They will shrink and felt.
  • Occasionally add more essential oil.  They will continue to shrink as you use them.  Just make a few more and toss them into the dryer with the others.
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How to Make Dryer Balls

Want to save the planet, money, AND time. There is an easy way to do this. Make a set of Dryer Balls. Specifially, Felted Wool Dryer Balls. ...»

Once you do, you will never have to buy over-scented dryer sheets or bulky bottles of fabric softener again.

Dryer Balls will also reduce static cling and cut your clothes drying time significantly {25-50%}.

These nifty little felted wool dryer balls will do all of these things while happily bouncing around in your dryer.

For more details visit my blog: http://www.seasonedhomemaker.com/2012/11/how...

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The Seasoned Homemaker Austin, TX
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  • Take your light and check it out closely as some are different. 1
  • By the bulb you should see some small screws
  • Remove the screws and SLOWLY pull the pieces apart. You will then see a normal, everyday, single AA battery. Yep, that is what gets charged by the sun during the day so that it glows at night! 2
  • Change the battery out with a new one and...Let there be light! 2
  • Now, if you have a different type of light, say like this one from WalMart, with the globe on top, it gets even easier to replace the battery.
  • Kathe With An E~DIY Fix Your Solar Lights
Simply pull the stake out and you will see this on the globe end.
  • One single screw. Leave the three screws by the bulb alone.
  • And there is your battery. Change it out, put the screw back in and you are done!
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DIY Fix for Spring

Got solar lights that aren't working? Luckily, I know how to fix them right up! And, I am going to share my tip with you!Cuz, well, we're friends and all and that's what friends do, right?...

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Kathe With An E (Kathe) Aurora, CO
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  • Materials needed, soil, potatoes, and reusable bags.
  • Cut up potatoes and let sit out for 2 days (this prevents disease once planted).
  • Place potatoes eye side up.
  • Cover with soil
  • Roll down sides to allow sun and rain to reach potatoes.
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Use Reusable Grocery Bags to Grow Potatoes

When I discovered that the potato grow bags cost $20 each I decided to try using my old reusable grocery bags to grow my potatoes in this year. Add 3" of soil to bottom, add potatoes eye ...»
side up, cover with additional 4" of soil. Once plant is 8" high add more soil. Keep adding soil until bag is full. Once plant starts to die and wilt, stop watering. Wait a couple of weeks and dump bag out. Harvest your home grown potatoes. #MayProjects

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2 Little Superheroes Raleigh, NC
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