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Updating Couch Cushion Covers/Minimal Sewing Skill Required
I enjoy sewing and have experience making things like valances and envelope pillow covers. I love looking at all the fabrics and textures available when beginning a project. All the beautiful choices can be overwhelming! Recently I was lucky enough to score a beautiful couch at a nearby yard sale. The only thing I didn’t care for was the color.…
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Beginner Friendly Decoupaged Ornaments Using Napkins, Glue And Chalk Paint
My relaxation during the holiday season involves personalizing gifts and making them myself. This can prove to be time consuming but by keeping them easy and giving them some consideration ahead of time, these crafts and smaller projects have become one of my biggest stress relievers. This project requires little skill and a few affordable materials. One of the things…
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Easy Holiday Accent Pillow Slipcovers Customized For A Gift Or For Your Home
My favorite gifts to give are the ones I make myself. I enjoy personalizing them for the recipient and making something that is functional. In doing so it has encouraged me, over the years, to sharpen my sewing skills and learn new crafts. This year I decided to make some holiday accent pillow covers and give them as gifts to…
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Cooking And Freezing Fresh Sugar Pumpkins
I like to bake and cook with pumpkin throughout the year. Like many other squash varieties pumpkin is versatile when baking and cooking. For most of us pumpkin is available on the shelves of our local grocery stores all year long and the canned version tastes great. But I can’t bring myself to throw away those perfectly good little pumpkins…
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Home Cooked Orange Scented Cranberry Sauce
I love to make my own cranberry sauce for our holiday meals. Its easy to customize by changing the sweeteners and spices. This recipe requires no more then one half hour from start to finish and very little cooking experience is required. One other benefit is it makes my home smell amazing! Here’s how you go from this⇑ to this⇓…
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Moist And Delicious Sourdough/Gluten Free Cinnamon Walnut Muffins
I became a sourdough enthusiast and began my starter earlier this year and I’ve been loving the process! Due to family health concerns, I’m becoming more mindful when baking and have been experimenting more with sourdough and gluten free recipes. I’m in the early stages of learning this technique but I felt with the slight modifications I made to make…
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Recover A Cube Seat Using Thrifted Denim/Adding Feet Part II
Our sewing/craft/guest bedroom is a never ending work in progress. It always ends up as the “catchall” when unexpected guests arrive or when I’m just to lazy to put things where they actually belong. When I last painted, the color didn’t come out as expected, it’s to blue and the bed could use a new mattress and box spring. There…
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Recover A Cube Seat Using Thrifted Denim/NO SEWING
My daughter and I enjoy sewing and have been using this cube as our seat over the last few years. It’s lightweight, has a padded seat and fits into the opening under the sewing machine nicely. The problem is the fabric covering it… The pattern isn’t something I would ever use in my home. It has also gotten quite a…
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The Best Sweet And Spicy Pumpkin Seeds
I love to cook with pumpkin during the Fall season. The big “Jacks” we carve definitely aren’t as good to cook with as the smaller sugar or pie pumpkins but the seeds are great when well seasoned and roasted. After going through the trouble of cleaning these big guys out, make sure you treat yourself with theses tasty, sweet and…
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Easy Staircase Refresh With Gel Stain (Goodbye Nasty Carpet!)
The carpet on these stairs that leads down to our family room finally got under my skin enough to do something about. The damage our cats have done over the years was now impossible to overlook and I felt no matter how good the rest of the room looked the stairs dragged everything else down. We hired the carpet company…