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Creating a Cactus Dish Garden
By Ellen Brown
Those of us who garden in the cooler zones are denied the rewards and challenges of landscaping with desert succulents (at least most of the year). Fortunately, we can bring a mini version of those interesting desert plants indoors by creating a cactus dish garden. Cactus dish gardens are easy to care for and maintain, and they make inexpensive long-lasting gifts for office co-workers, neighbors or fellow plant enthusiasts. Since cacti appreciate dry winter air, now is a great time to introduce them into your indoor landscape.
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Personalized Stepping-Stone
By Christine Weber
Stir up your own cement and add seashells, broken pottery and glass to create a colourful stepping-stone for the gardener on your Christmas list.
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Life is too simple when you have been with my sisters (cats) and my master. I take control and enjoy life. You all take care.
By Sandra from Wichita Falls
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Freedom Belle and Liberty Belle
Freedom Belle is 8 to 12 years old. She was adopted, so I am not sure of her age. She is a domestic short hair Tortie.
I got this precious gal 3 years ago. I was on the internet checking into local Humane Society volunteer work and decided to click on the cat pictures. It was an omen! The first picture I clicked on was almost a duplicate of what my other cat looked like!
She is just a cuddle cat that kisses me with licks.
She was at the humane society for 5 months and was on the list to be put to sleep, since I freed her I named her Freedom Belle and my other cat had the name of Liberty Belle.
Liberty Belle is 4 years old. She is also a DSH Tortie.
I got her on 9/11 the day of my birthday and terrorist attack. I was depressed by tv news coverage. To get out I went to Petco and a man was standing out front giving away 3 week old orphans. I had no intention of replacing my cat that died of old age a few months earlier, but I could not resist, I needed comfort and a birthday gift and she needed a home!
She was a teeny 3 week old kitten and is now a 15 pound gal!
By Linda Jonson from Oceanside, Ca.
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Bleach Bottle Santa Door Decoration
By Kim Davis
This is a cute, unique Christmas door decoration that can be made without too much bother or artistic ability. It recycles that empty bleach bottle, too. I've gotten lots of comments about how cute he is.
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Sequined Ornament
By Kelli Mahoney
Christmastime is a great time to get the family together to create ornaments for your tree. When I was growing up, we used to make new ornaments every year, so that now there are memories hung up all over our tree. This project is a simple way to add some glitter to your tree this year.
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Create a Beautiful Pot for a Gift
Easily make a beautiful pot for a plant! Everything you need to make it can be bought at Walmart craft dept. except the clay pot, that is the garden dept. All you need is the pot and saucer, choice of color of acrylic paint, sponge brush and rub on decoupage. Paint the pot and saucer, let it dry, rub on the decoupage! The recipient of this gift will be impressed.
By Linda Jonson from Oceanside, Ca.
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Today's Tips
Freezing Cookies and Cookie Dough - Tips and Recipes
Tips and recipes for freezing cookies and cookie dough. Post your ideas.
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Store Wrapping Paper Inside the Roll
After Christmas, if you take your leftover Christmas wrap off the roll, roll it back up, and place it inside the cardboard holder it will keep better for next year.
By Sharon
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Cleaning the Silver for the Holidays
Holiday entertaining means bringing out the good china and the silver. A quick and easy way to clean your silver in a thrifty way is to use household aluminum foil, salt, baking soda and hot water. For the recipe and the scientific explanation about how this process works just go to:
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Have a happy and stress free Holiday!
By SNIGDIBBLY from BENTONVILLE, AR
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Saving Money on Gifts for Extended Family
This year money is especially tight so I decided to challenge myself a little. I decided to try to spend $5 or less per person for our extended family. I have been able to do that and have come up with some wonderful gifts! It's really not hard to come up with nice things for just a little money!
By Robin from Washingon, IA
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Wedding gifts are fun to wrap, but can be expensive. I wrap the gift with beautiful material I picked out from the fabric store. I buy also buy tule to wrap over the fabric. Tie it up with a fabric ribbon. I get ohhs and ahhs before the gift is even opened.
By Beachers from West Covina, CA
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Snoopy Kids and Christmas Presents
If you have snoopy kids (or husband) who search and find the Christmas presents you've bought, wrap and code them i.e. a number, letter, color or symbol for each family member. Then store the whole lot over at a neighbor's house. You do the same for her!
By Linda from Vista, CA
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Scrunchies for Decorative Stemware
Buy holiday decorated hair scrunchies and place them around your stemware for a festive look.
By Bobbie from Imperial, NE
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Glue mirrored tiles to ornament hangers or pieces of ribbon, then hang from your Christmas tree for a beautiful and sparkly look. You could get by with using less lights due to the reflection these tiles will produce.
By Bobbie from Imperial, NE
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Decorating Your Dining Chairs for the Holidays
Buy extra holiday placemats and sew two together on three sides. Place them over your dining room chairs for a matching decor this season.
By Bobbie from Imperial, NE
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Car Buying Tip 7 - Say No To Coffee, Yes To Water
Don't accept coffee at the dealership. It will make you edgy. Do bring an ample supply of water and drink frequently. Why? First, it will keep you alert, and second, it will allow you to go to the restroom frequently, where you can collect yourself and look over your notes to make sure you are on track. It will also break the tension and the salesman's intimidation over you. Who can argue with a bathroom break!
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I am looking for ideas to use at work when people sign up to be a secret Santa. I have seen poems with ideas for each day of the exchange.
BeccaL from Polk, Nebraska
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How do you clean tree sap off of a leather jacket?
Lisa Helms from Rock Hill SC
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Creative Ways to Hang a Window Frame
I am needing some rustic, farm-like ideas for a way to hang a window frame that has a quilt attached to it. You can see the quilt squares through the window panes. It is going to hang over the head of the bed.
Update: I have posted this earlier under a different category. I am trying to come up with a creative way to hang an old window that has a quilt attached to the back so that the quilt squares show through the window panes. It is going over the head of the bed. Someone mentioned a rake head. How would that work exactly? I need any other ideas. Obviously it is not a formal setting, but very casual/country.
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Carolb from Fairview,TN
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Removing Dried Paint From Wood Floors
How do you remove dried up paint off a wooden floor. We recently bought a home and took up the carpet. The floor is not bad except for some dried paint which we cannot get off.
Kate from Boothwyn, PA
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Does anyone have any advice on how you can fix 3 meals a day for a month on $152.00 in food stamps?
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Janice from Somerville, TN
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My puppy is about 10 weeks old and it's my first. He's a pitbull and he bites a lot. When I tell him "No" he seems to get excited and tries to bite more. He has little blood spots on him, I'm guessing my cat did that because he tries to bite the cat everytime she comes in the house. I was wondering if i should take him to the vet. I don't walk him much since it's winter because I think it's too cold for him? Is it ok for me to still walk him when it's cold? Also, I was gonna give him a flea bath but I dont know if those spots would hurt him becuase of the shampoo. Some help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.
Hung from Oregon
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How do you get blue sharpie out of a grey cotton sweatshirt?
Stephanie from Orange County, CA
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Does anyone know about the pineapple diet? How does it work? Any suggestions on how to lose 7 pounds before Christmas?
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Cristina from New York
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Armour All Build Up on Clear Plastic
The plastic covering over the instruments in my vehicle has gotten a glaze over it and I think that it is from Armour All. What can I use to remove this film? I know that it is plexi-glass of some sort.
Mary Wallace from Mendenhall, MS
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Does anyone have any ideas for making homemade Christmas cards?
Jill from Shavertown, PA
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When we were kids, (we're now in our late 40's), there was something called Pudding Cake. My dad brought the idea from living "in the country". It was a plain cake with warm sauce poured over it. We're frantically looking for the recipe for that sauce. Does anybody know of this Kentucky country warm dessert? It is a delicious treat.
Bigdog from Kentucky
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Is there a way to train my shepard/husky/lab mix to not be afraid of children? She is 6 months old and acts like she might bite them. We have a grand baby coming in the spring and would like to know if there is anything we can do! We love this dog but want to know if this is something we can change or is this just the dog?
Doggie Mom from Coastal Maine
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I was wondering if you knew of a home based business that is legit. I do not want to put my money in a bad investment but I really want something that I can do that I can spend more time with my son.
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Barbara from Louisville, KY
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Does anyone have any advice on prolonging the shelf life of whole garlic. My mother-in-law just gave us an entire bag. We usually only buy bulbs as needed and thus store them in a bowl in the pantry. However, we have discovered in the past that if they are not used they seem to dehydrate and become bad after a few weeks.
David from Birmingham, AL
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