08.10.2008 04:01
Hands-on time: An hour and a half.Total time: Add three and a half hours of drying time.Skill: Easy.Cost estimate: Approximately $35.00 to create the centerpiece and accents (pillar candle cost not included, candles can vary in price depending on how many you buy and where buy them).
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08.10.2008 04:00
Efficient people like my friend Hazel have already started buying Christmas presents. Hazel does not have trouble making decisions. Hazel can look at billions of gift possibilities and choose the perfect one. When I asked Hazel what's wrong with shopping on December 24th, she laughed. I didn't.
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11.08.2008
There's a basic truth I've learned about home maintenance that's as powerful as it is simple. The closer your tools are stored to the kitchen, the more home fix-ups actually happen. There's really no mystery in this.
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11.08.2008
Every so often you should try being away overnight somewhere, especially if there's a chance that a relative will decide to add insulation to the attic while you're gone. Here are some motivational incentives for you and the relative: Up to 45 percent of a home's energy loss is through the roof.
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06.08.2008
What a time for my garden to be suffering from prickly heat. In just one week I would be welcoming a tour group of forty from the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta. There would be no pulling the wool over the eyes of these plant detectives.
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06.08.2008
As many people do, I like to bring back mementos from my vacations. My favourite things to bring back are beach findings, because they can add a sense of serenity to any décor throughout your home or office.
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30.07.2008
When I was a kid, August was the month of magic. We could ride bikes until after dark. And stay up late enough to watch Bewitched. And eat things that had trans fats in them.
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30.07.2008
Most Canadian homes have at least one outdoor electrical outlet, but what's easy to overlook is the fact that so many are in poor condition. So-called weatherproof covers are often broken or missing and internal corrosion of wires and contacts is far more widespread than you might think.
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30.07.2008
Q: How can I finish the inside of a tea chest? It's made of walnut on the outside, with internal dividers of white ash. I'm concerned that the smell of wood finish will transfer to the tea.
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23.07.2008
Colorado potato beetles better dive for cover in the vegetable plot of Jeff Hicks. The little varmints graze on members of the nightshade family (potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers), but before they plunder the plants in Jeff's plot, he picks them off and puts them in the hand crusher.
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23.07.2008
I lie awake at night and think about why the world is the way it is. Last night, I realized that big tobacco companies were probably in bed with the broadloom industry back in the Fifties. How do I know this? Pure logic. Broadloom was the trendy new status symbol in the Fifties.
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23.07.2008
I bought my first batch of window blinds from a big-name franchise more than 10 years ago, and the experience left me with the same feeling I got after wandering into the back alley of a Jamaican street market, where I met a big, loud huckster extremely eager to sell me a hand-carved mahogany horse.
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