Silverware Dragonfly
I like this very much. I dont have the required tools at the moment but Ill keep this well stored in my memory to try to make one when I will get the time, the right place and the tools to make one.
Manufacturer for Market Basket Butter?
Not quite a Market Basket exclusivity : https://www.instacart.com/products/19715773-country-delight-salted-butter-per-lb
What Breed Is My Dog?
Why do you look for its breed ? He is at the top. At the top there is no breed, there are only faithful, intelligent dogs. About herd dogs, shepherd dogs, one say : teaching, training, understanding, psychology, working mind. Its the kind of dog that does not...
Grapevine with Small Grapes?
You do not grow the same type of grapevine and you do not grow a grapevine the same way if you want to have, big beautiful grapes to eat, grapes to make good wine, or if you want the grapevine to grow over an arbor. But in any case you should not grow a gravevine...
Grapevine with Small Grapes?
From its original european/east asian wild ancestor called vitis vinifera was born a family of today something like 5000 to 6000 happy members. Obviously not only the father was a wanderer.
What Is This Bug?
Thanks ! I had never seen a cockroach nymph before and would not have supposed it could be one. I dont know if this can be useful in a hot climate place but i live in a temperate climate country and we have a very simple way to avoid cockroach invasion, we...
What Is This Shrub?
Hello ! I think it could also be a Cotinus coggygria, possibly it is the royal purple type. There are different types of Cotinus coggygria, some are american native some are european and China native, but its been many centuries since the european types also...
What is the Worth of My Great Grandma's China?
Hello ! I found some pieces of your set on sale on the net but never a full set. Limoges is one of the most famous type of China in France. Limoges is a town and a type of China. Your set is valuable indeed. There are different modele of this set with the same...
Multi-Colored Brooch Made of Fish Scales
You have renewed a technique that was perhaps traditional. I have an old brooch, which I bought in England. It is a sailboat included in transparent bakelite (?). It took me a while to see that her sails are made with fish scales. The color and shape of the...
Velouté de Potimarron et Morteau
Where do you see in the recipe four and a half pounds of carrots ? 1kg of carrots is 2,2 lbs. more precisely a kilo = 2.2046226218 lbs. The easiest way to calculate is to consider that 1 pound is half a kilo. Now with this new value of a kilogram would you...
Super Fast Fix for Nosy Neighbors
Difficult to find out the right limit between too nosy and indifferent when you badly need help. From the years I spent living in England I thought that the english people were the ones who know best how to keep that limit clear and I still do today.
Super Fast Fix for Nosy Neighbors
I needed a 1,80 meter wood rod to make a curtain that can be drawn back on each side of the window. I went to a DIY store and only found 5 meter wood rod (7 Euro !). I travel by bus only and of course I cant get on the bus with a 5 meter wood rod. Of course...
Making Sure Cats Get Enough Water
Here are a few things I know and have tested to help a cat drink water. - they like, a very large bowl with a big quantity of water : cats does not like their moustaches to touch the sides of the bowl when they are drinking and worst of all a bowl so small...
Can I Compost Pine Needles?
There are hundreds of studies about pine needles decomposition for a simple reason : There are more than 110 species of pines worldwide, and pine is the major tree of the Northern Hemisphere. They produce litter all year round in big quantity, the decomposition...
Felt Toilet Paper Ornament
Be ready ! in my country the TP race has ended but it is replaced by the paper towel race. I wonder why ... Could there be clubs at night where different teams first separate the paper towel to a single layer and then cut it to TP size ? Lockdown and quarantine...
French Onion Meatballs
Do you know that we are not allowed anymore to call the french Gruyère Gruyère only the swiss cheese can be called Gruyère. The french equivalent is Emmental now. The official swiss Gruyère is expensive but it is true that it takes more time to make it than...
Lid Pumpkin Wall Hanging
I like it very much especially because there are plenty ideas of recycling cans but not so many using cans lids. I think I would stick it on a door and either use it to hide a judas-hole or rather stick it on the door at the level of the key hole making a hole...
Rescued Chipmunks Need Help?
It will not help these chipmunks but you could put a little bell on the collar of your cat. It could help others chipmunks or others little birds or animals and your cat will still enjoy hunting as I am sure your cat is not hunting to survive. Hope this helps...
Identifying a Houseplant?
Hello ! Your plants family is something like 400 millions year old, in those times it still hesitated between being a fern or a moss. It is the selaginellae family and this member is the Selaginella martensii 'Frosty' (sometimes sold under the name of Selaginella...
Identifying a Houseplant?
It is a Selaginella martensii 'Variegata'. In the shops they are usually called Frosty fern but they are not fern at all and they are not easy to grow. Check for what cares they need using their scientific name of Selaginella martensii.
Growing Peach Trees from Pits?
I agree with Judy, automn is the best time. Here we say 25th of november is the best day. If you keep them in pots until the stalks are not green anymore but actually turning into wood, they will be strong enough and ready to be planted in the ground but you...
Bureau Drawers Stuck?
I use dry soap too and I use talc too. The advantage of talc is that you can make it fall on a part that you can not reach. Talc can also keep two floor slats from squeaking, just by pouring some between the two planks.
Identifying a Houseplant (Mistletoe Cactus)?
it is a Rhipsalis. It is very easy to grow and very tolerant
DIY Old Window Decoration
It is really beautiful, I tried the same decoration to hide a crack in a mirror. I used hot glue and it was perfect, until the temperature of the room changed and one by on all the pebbles I had glued fell to the floor. Next time I will try the silicone glue...
Painting the Outside of a Metal Lamp Shade?
If the perforations are small, you could try to fill them with hot glue and once you have spray painted the outside you could push out the hot glue fills from the perforations.
Identifying Insect Eggs?
But which one ? According to wikipedia there are 160,000 species of Lepidoptera that are commonly known as moths. If you meant the kind that makes holes in your favourite woolies, the eggs are laid on the textiles so that the larvae can feed on them as soon...
Identifying a Houseplant?
Hello ! I think it is a double flower kalanchoe because of the pointed petals of the flowers and the thickness and smoothness of its leaves. The leaves of a begonia are a bit hairy and would not be that thick.
Mother Duck Seems to Have Abandoned Nest?
The duck was indeed stressed and most of all by your dogs and maybe others birds you did not see were stressed by your dogs. Walking dogs and bird watching are not compatible activities, but as walking your dogs is a pleasure for you and them, I suggest you...
Identifying a Houseplant?
It could be a plectranthus amboinicus variegated (because of the white borders) or a Buddleja crispa Stone House Cottage. To tell one from another rub one of its leaves if it leaves a strong smell of campher on your fingers, then it is a plectranthus.
Dandelions Taking Over Flower Bed?
Put a little bit of salt on the center of the dandelion and after putting the salt, if you have enough space to do not damage the others plant next to the dandelions, water them with boiling water. In the next few days you will be able to root them out easily...
Identifying a Garden Plant (Calla Lily)?
I think it is a Calla lily, scientific name : zantedeschia maculata (maculata because of the white spots on the leaves). The flowers can be white or red or pink or others fancy colors.
Learning to Love My Season
Teaching is the kind of job that will make you give too much importance to the way people look at you, to what they think about you, in short, to their judgement. I have many colleagues who feel and behave as if they were on stage in front of their public when...
Sun Star Plant Not Blooming?
There is a Thriftyfun guide about Sun star plants care, here : https://www.thriftyfun.com/Caring-for-a-Sun-Star-Plant.html
Identifying a Houseplant?
Hello ! It could be a Portulacaria, possibly Portulacaria afra variegata or Portulacaria afra tricolor (variegata is added to the name of many plants as it only signals a genetic modification, in this case it is the leaves that are white and green instead of...
When to Start Feeding Hummingbirds?
In North Carolina you can contact National Audubon Society which aim is to protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow at : Audubon North Carolina 807 E. Main Street, Suite 2-220, Durham, NC 2770 by mail at lschnitzlein@audubon.org and get information...
Lilac Not Blooming?
Lilac must be pruned every year right after the flowering and not in Autumn. Very often people think that their lilac doesnt need to be pruned as it keeps on flowering every year but it is in fact because they cut the branches to make beautiful bouquets and...
Composting Straw?
I agree that straw should not be mixed with carnivorous animals wastes but otherwise farmers from all times an all countries used to make a pile in the middle of the yard of the farm of what was not yet called compost but just manure. It was 100 % made of the...
Frog and Fly Catcher Game
The fun of playing with a bilboquet without its dangers ! Try to learn to play with a solid wood bilboquet to see what I mean !
Using Coffee Grounds Around Oleander Plants?
You are absolutely right Cybergrannie to remind people that Oleander is a very dangerous plant. It is really the most important thing to say about Oleander. Every year there are cases of people being poisoned after using Oleander branches as sticks on a grill...
Using Mint as a Natural Pesticide?
I have a bad news for the pro mint people : I have already seen hundreds of aphids on a mint plant outdoors'. but maybe spraying essential mint oil can kill aphids because the smell of the oil is much more stronger than the nice smell of the mint leaves. Luckily...
Identifying a Houseplant? (Jade Plant)
Hello ! For sure It is a succulent and if its leaves are velvety as it looks like on the picture it could be a member of the Echeveria family, like an echeveria elegans, or an echeveria setosa, they are also called plush plant.
Identifying a Houseplant? (Jade Plant)
You could be right about the plant being a kalanchoe eriophylla even if it doesnt have that typical little spot of a darker color at the tips of its leaves, but what is on this picture is not an adult plant it is only the shoot of an adult plant which has been...
Identifying a Cold Damaged Cactus?
Unfortunately it is not a cactus it is an euphorbia, it could be euphorbia trigona or euphorbia triangularis or euphorbia lactea. I wrote unfortunately because they are more gifted than the cacti to hide the rot that is killing them from inside and to suddenly...
What Is This Plant?
I think it is a member of the tradescantia family (wandering jew). I cant figure out its actual size but if it has rather small leaves it could be the Tradescantia Minima Callisia Repens or Tradescantia Baby Bunny Bellies also called Speedy Jenny.
Sewing Machine Not Picking Up Bobbin Thread?
Hello ! I think that you should first take the vacuum cleaner and try to get rid of the thread dust. Then check what looks like a piece of thick yellow thread and seems to be at the bottom on the left side of the picture because if it is hard to manually lift...
Identifying White Bumps on Fern Stalks?
Hello ! It is not a fern, it is a palm tree, actually a dwarf palm tree called Neanthe Bella,or parlor palm and by its scientific name: Chamaedorea elegans. The white spots are in fact slightly yellow and they are its flowers which sometimes (rarely) turn into...
Identifying a Houseplant? (Schefflera)
I agree with Chris for the name of the plant and I agree with Judy for the orthography of the name of the plant : sChefflera.
Identifying a Houseplant?
You will find many different advices about Poinsettia being or not highly dangerous for pets and kids. In fact the main danger of the Poinsettia comes from its sap like all the members of the Euphorbia family, so when taking care of it, protect your eyes and...
What Is This Houseplant? (Long Leaf Ficus)
Hello ! I think it is a long leaf ficus and if so it is indeed a tropical tree and a bit more touchy than his brother the ficus benjamina.
Distressing Paper with an Ink Pad
I love crafting with paper and images too. I use henna to age paper, it is cheap and it is easy to dose the aging effect. I put the henna (natural henna powder only) in a bit of hot water and let it stay for 15. I then brush the mixture on the image, and dip...
Identifying a Houseplant? (Unknown)
Hi ! I think if it was a citrus, it is old enough for its feet to have already turned to wood and a brown colour. Regardless of the type of plant, it looks like a fake bush. Like when you put a lot of citrus seeds in a pot, you get a kind of shrub because of...
Identifying a Houseplant?
What is surprising about your plant being a pothos is its age. The lifespan of a pothos is an average of 10 years, maybe the person who gave the plant to you had it for 20 years because it has been started again many times from cuttings. How much rigid and...
White Spot on Avocado Seed Growing in Water?
You could lesser the level of water. It only needs to have water close to the bottom of the seed to start roots but not to have the seed into water. With the top parts of the roots out of water it will help them start to harden because when planted in soil...
Identifying a Houseplant?
It is a member of the Hoya family : Hoya carnosa compacta variegata, aka : Wax Flower, Porcelain Flower, Hindu Rope Hoya. It produces when well cared for the most incredibly beautiful and fragrant flowers.
Identifying a Houseplant?
It is a begonia, called Tamaya or bambou begonia. As the leaves can be dark green or green with little white dots, its official name is Begonia maculata. It is a beautiful plant and easy to grow but you have to think in advance of the size of the pot and the...
Planting Spring Bulbs?
You could plant them in a container, protect the container well from bottom to top and put it outdoor. Next year once their leaves will turn yellow and then dried you can put them in your garden. You can also grow them indoors in a pot.
Kenmore Foot Pedal Only Runs Slowly?
Hello ! Safety first ! and Your safety first ! Before cleaning or trying anything with the pedal the first thing to do is to have the wires and the connection of the wires of the pedal tested.To do this you need a very basic instrument called multimeter (aka...
Identifying a Leggy Plant?
I think your plant is watered too much and much too often and that the water stagnates in the plate which is under the pot, making far too much humidity at the level of the roots. You should put the plant in full light preferably with the light coming from...
Removing Roof Tar from Skin with Olive Oil
I experienced bomb sprayed tar to repair a tiny hole in a gutter ... Great memory I ended up with tar all over my face and my glasses .... because I had pushed on the top of the bomb with the opening towards my face, not towards the gutter. So I can talk from...
Why Is My Lilac Bush Not Growing?
Lilac needs a very very rich soil all its life. Planting it where another lilac had grown is not a good idea. In the automn put manure or/and wood ashes around its foot without touching the foot and leave the rain drives the nutrients to its roots. Liquid fertilizers...
Scum Forming on Water Line in Plant Container?
Hello ! wood coal, flint and lava stones are supposed to help keep water clean.
Deodorize Clothing with Vodka
The problem is that there is no patented recipe of Vodka. You can make alcool at 40° from anything, potatoes, wheat, or others cereals and call it Vodka. No country or company will come round to sue you for using the name Vodka. That is why I am not so sure...
What Is This Houseplant? (Dieffenbachia)
Some sort of Dieffenbachia ? like Dieffenbachia antioquensis or Dieffenbachia maculata
Over Pruned Pear Tree?
It is still time to graft/save your tree. You can ask neighbors, friends to give you little branches from a pear tree to graft your tree. Grafting can not kill your tree, and you can try a graft on each branch that has been cut or even two or three grafts on...
What Is This Garden Plant?
Difficult to see if it is a single plant or a bunch of plants gathered into a bush, so I take a wild guess : Willow herb : possibly Epilobium ciliatum ssp glandulosum or Epilobium coloratum or another Epilobium. Epilobium flowers range from pink to white. You...
The Most Welcome Bees
Follow this issue closely because the biggest bee killer is your neighbor, it is Bayer. There is another reason why you should watch this closely, because if you look carefully in Bayers past you will learn that Bayer hasn killed bees only, and that it is every...
Baby (Cornish Rex and Tabby)
You could try to give water to your cats in a very large bowl like 30 cm wide because cats do not like to drink in a bowl when if the edge of the bowl touches their whiskers. Whiskers are very important for a cat, to feel the vibrations that will tell him what...
Identifying and Caring for a Houseplant?
Hello ! It is a Calathea roseopicta Medallion. It comes from the rain forests of Brazil, and that is why it needs moist first of all and warmth and zenithal light only. That is the atmosphere they have when they live in the shadow at the foot of the tall trees...
Do Wisterias Weep?
Hello Judy ! Weeping added to the name of a plant (usually tree) characterizes the future shape of the plant, like the weeping willow for example. It doesnt mean that the plant will drop sap. About wisterias, turning a wisteria into a weeping wisteria is very...
Identifying a Porcelain Doll?
Hello ! If part of the marking reads HEUBACH KOPPELSDORF , it has a value, as German company HEUBACH KOPPELSDORF created by Ernst Heubach in 1887 closed in 1932. Part of the marking could be on the back of the head at the level of the neck and could include...
Saving a Tree with a Broken Main Trunk?
Hello ! When cutting branches, even for a year pruning only, you should always cut the branches with a strong bevel. When branches are cut straight the rain water stagnates and get into the wood when the cutting is beveled the rain water will slide along the...
Saving Little Plastic Balls for Crafting
They are hollow and very light they can be painted, or you can decorate them with drops of nail varnish, they can be threaded on a ribbon or you insert LED into them to make a garland to decorate a Christmas tree or a table. It is very easy to make a hole in...
Ladybugs for Your Garden
Certainly less dangerous than chemicals for your health but take a look here: https://www.treehugger.com/why-you-shouldnt-buy-ladybugs-natural-pest-control-your-garden-4858779
Cardstock Sheep Badge
I am sure this little sheep is the secret child of Shaun and knowing Shaun the sheep it would not surprise me if he is. It would be a good idea to craft this little sheep and to offer it to children or adults together with a cd of the wonderful creations and...
Identifying a Houseplant?
Hello ! It is a kalanchoe from the crassula family and from the color of the soil on the picture I can tell you that it has received too much water and that you should quickly put it in a pot where the water will not stagnate as when its roots are in damp soil...
Identifying a Houseplant? (Wandering Jew)
Hello ! Cybergrannie is right it is a Tradescantia Fluminensis and because of its white and green colors it is Tradescantia Fluminensis variegata. When different coloured parts appear on the leaves of a plant which normally would be plain green variegata is...
Starting Seedlings In Kitty Litter
Could you show us the results ? Because I dont believe that seeds will germinate in cat litter. Cat litter is made to dehydrate cats poo and absorb urine by contact. A seed or plant first need is water and moisture and warmth and it will die if dehydrated because...
What Is This Houseplant?
It does look like a kalanchoe blossfeldiana and if it is, it needs to be put back in full light and should be given very little water specially during automn or winter and never on its leaves. Kalanchoe can stand full light but will die if overwatered. A traditional...
Identifying a Houseplant?
Hello It is a Fittonia and could be a Fittonia albivenis (which only means white veins) and as a Fittonia it is not toxic. Hope this helps
Identifying a Houseplant?
Hello ! I completely agree with Cybergrannie. It is a Kalanchoe. One of the very few dark green leaf plants that can stand full sun. Hope this helps !
Removing a Willow Tree?
Hello ! That is right not every willow will grow again after being cut because there are different types of willows and trees are just like humans. An old and big willow will not recover and will not grow again as rapidly as a young one. Willows do not live...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! I think your plant is from the large kalanchoe family. It looks like a Kalanchoe Daigremontiana. About the edibility of a plant, sometimes people simply mean that you could accidentally eat a plant and it will not kill you, or you can use special preparation...
What Is This House Plant?
Hello ! It could be a polyscias scutellaria called in english Balfour scutellaria. you can compare with this picture if it is your plant.
What Is This House Plant?
Hello! Bonsaï is not a family of plants nor a species of plants, originally it was a tradition of the Buddhists monks. When they saw a young tree in the wild that had no chance to survive, because it was too badly located to keep on growing, they would uproot...
Using Coffee to Revive a Christmas Cactus?
Plants produce their own vitamins from minérals and others chemicals. Plants feed from the soil and there are no vitamins in the soil but there are minérals. The benefit of ground coffee for example is azot.
Juicing and Growing Your Own Pomegranates
Here in my place the majority of the pomegranates sold in the nurseries are decorative only and they are selected to be so. They have at the best very small fruits, sometimes purple, or red but completely white inside. The flowers are big double in size and...
Identifying a Houseplant?
Hello! Your plant looks like an Aglaonema by its fruits and the white stripes on its leaves, but there are many different types of Aglaonema and the white marks on its leaves show more or less depending on the amount of light it receives. Google keywords Aglaonema...
Identifying a Houseplant?
Hello! I think that if the back of the leaves of your plant is slightly purple it is a Ledebouria Socialis which could do with more light. Hope this helps !
Identifying a Houseplant?
Hello ! I think it is a Selaginella it can be the Gold Moss or Club Moss type or Selaginella uncinata. Selaginella is a plant which is between a fern and a moss. its color range goes from light green to yellowish green. It needs complete shade and would thrill...
Avocado Tree Dropping Leaves?
Hello ! I see you get snow in the winter, that means real winter. It also means that the lady at Terra Greenhouses is a big liar if she told you that your avocado has a good chance to have fruits one day. I think that your avocado is just having a big shock...
Orangettes
Hello! In Europe and especially France where this recipe comes from, any cooks recipe using oranges or lemon barks, be it in a cooking book or in a magazine, will always precise: use non-treated fruits. Oranges and lemons are the most chemically treated fruits...
