Uses for Coffee

November 7th, 2006

Yet another forward! This one is all about everyone’s favorite form of caffeine.

Here’s some coffee recipes, too.

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1. Dye fabric brown inexpensively. Soak the fabric in a bucket of strong, black coffee. This technique is also a good way to cover up an irremovable coffee stain on a white tablecloth.

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My Sniper Movie

November 2nd, 2006

This has nothing to do with crafts, but it’s my first movie so that’s pretty cool! Enjoy.
View the Movie (330×223, 1.5MB)

Don’t like it? Spraypaint it.

October 24th, 2006

Our mantra: One regular sized can of spraypaint can save money by preventing you from buying something new! So far in our house we’ve spraypainted shelves, lamps, furniture, picture frames…the possibilities are endless. Don’t you just love aerosol?

It seems like more often people are throwing out perfectly good stuff. Take an old lamp I’ve had since high school, for example. I found a neat shade for it for a great price at Wal-Mart, but the shade just didn’t fit the look of the lamp. The solution? I found this really cool “bumpy” spraypaint at a hardware store (although I’m sure you could find it other places, too!) that looks like a spongey textured effect when it comes out. Viola; I didn’t have to buy a new lamp! Spraypaint is awesome.

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Tips to make life less frustrating

September 26th, 2006

Another handy forward e-mail from Mom!

Bed Sheets

After drying your sheets, put both sheets and one pillowcase in the other pillow case. Fold neatly in a square. Next time you change sheets, you just take the one pillow case and all the sheets and pillow case are inside. There’s no need to look for matches.

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The benefits of peroxide

September 21st, 2006

My mom sifts through tons of forward e-mails from her friends, and usually passes the interesting or helpful ones on to me. She sent me this one today, which details how you can use plain old peroxide for a lot of different things.

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The Health Benefits of Peroxide
by Becky Ransey of Indiana

I would like to tell you of the benefits of that plain little old bottle of 3% peroxide you can get for under $1.00 at any drug store. My husband has been in the medical field for over 36 years, and most doctors don’t tell you about peroxide, or they would lose thousands of dollars.

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