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Easy Home Remedies for Chapped Lips
Add to Favorites While most people turn to commercial lip balm for chapped lips during the dry months, there are a number of easy home remedies for chapped lips that …
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Garden Herbs List: No Salt? No Sugar? No Sweat!
Add to Favorites By Gail Reynolds – Let’s face it, having to reduce or eliminate salt or sugar from our daily diets can be a tough morsel to swallow. Whether we’re …
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The Joys and Challenges of Growing Herbs Outdoors
Add to Favorites By Gail Reynolds – Whether you are growing herbs outdoors for pleasure, profit, or production of homegrown flavorings for your home kitchen, the hot and sultry summertime …
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A Guide to Diatomaceous Earth Uses
Add to Favorites By Ken Scharabok – Diatomaceous Earth uses vary, but generally, DE can be safely fed to animals or used as a dust or spray for parasite control. …
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The Delicious Dill Plant and Its Many Uses
Add to Favorites By Brenda Hyde – The dill plant not only has lovely foliage; its fragrance is a “comfort smell” for many people. I barely touch its feathery leaves and …
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DIY Baking Soda Toothpaste Recipe
Add to Favorites Several years ago we removed toxins, chemicals, GMOs and processed foods from our home. Finding replacements for health and beauty products, like a homemade baking soda toothpaste …
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How to Make Homemade Soap: Easy Terms You Should Know
Even with easy homemade soap recipes, beginners get bombarded with foreign terminology. Use this glossary if you’re wondering how to make homemade soap easy.
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A Hand Spinner’s Primer Using Suffolk Sheep Wool
Add to Favorites By Leigh Dudenhoeffer – I’m a fiber artist who is educated in almost all of the needle arts. I’ve been spinning wool since I was about 10 …
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How to Choose Between Natural Dyes or Acid Dyes
Add to Favorites Natural dyes have been used for centuries creating color from plants, insects, fungus, and minerals. Certain colors denoted higher social classes and wealth because they were harder …
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Flurries Hat: An Easy Beanie Knitting Pattern
Add to Favorites When I decided to write an easy beanie knitting pattern, I wanted to make it with the stranded colorwork technique, and use two yarns to make a …
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Creating a Hygge House
Add to Favorites Fall has hit my town of Spokane, Washington, and I’m so looking forward to snuggling in for the winter. I tend to be a homebody anyway, but …
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Knitting Stitches: 6 Ideas for Edgings
Add to Favorites There are so many different knitting stitches, it’s hard to choose one! You can narrow it down by thinking about what you’re knitting and which properties you …
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Cross-Stitch Patterns: Personalized Christmas Stocking Tags
Add to Favorites Unpacking the Christmas decorations is my favorite part of the holidays. I have ornaments from my dad’s childhood and from mine, a darling stuffed Santa that my mom …
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Make a Mug Cozy: An Easy Cable Knitting Pattern
Add to Favorites I love giving hand knit gifts for the holidays. I’ve made hats, mittens, scarves, stuffed toys—you name it. This year, I’ve got a new plan: I designed a …
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Use This Sweater Mitten Pattern to Bring New Life to Old Clothes
Add to Favorites When my husband shrank one of my cashmere sweaters, I decided to use an old sweater mitten pattern to breathe new life into an item of clothing …
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