Tips and Tricks to organizing your home
More recipes I’m always discovering some great sites for recipes. Here are a few new ones: For soup lovers: Seriously Soupy For cheap dinners: Five Dollar Dinners For chocolate lovers, like me!: Chocolate Butterscotch popcorn – can you say YUMMY?!? To even out that sweet calorie filled popcorn, find out how to make healthy popcorn [...]
The many uses of lavender Patricia knows about lavender and has a whole site dedicated to it. Check out her lavender craft ideas. Hang it on a wall I love the ideas in the article Getting My Wall Organized with Command Adhesive Products by 3M. I need that for my office. Stop and think In [...]
Back to school I went on a hunt for lunch box ideas. Since my daughter ate the same peanut butter and jelly sandwich lunch every single day last year, I decided I might venture into more variety. The truth is someone in her class has a peanut allergy which means I can no longer make [...]
Handmade gift idea Bake some delicious cookies and present them in a beautiful gift package created from a Pringles can. This is a great idea for a back-to-school gift for your child’s new teacher. Add a tag saying “Have a great year!” to the front. Find the recipe and package creation instructions at The Paper [...]
Book Mooch Bookmooch.com has an interesting concept in trading around books with other readers. You earn points to borrow other books when you lend yours. You can even donate your extra points to a couple of charities so they can purchase needed books. I’m going to try it out soon. (Available in the US, France, [...]
Easy Breakfast Casserole I made this Green Eggs and Ham Our Way breakfast casserole this week, and it was a hit. Letting kids assemble their own mini version is a great activity for a girl’s sleepover party. Are you “emotionally unprepared” for that new dress? After writing the article about irrational purchases recently, I laughed [...]
Make your own frappuccino and save $$$ 14 coffee recipes and 7 other ways to use leftover coffee. I’m sipping on a homemade frappuccino as I write this. Delicious! A free cookbook from a fabulous chef I enjoy cooking more when I’m trying out a new recipe. Chef Tom has a wonderful blog full of [...]
Yummy Pancakes I am the worst pancake maker. They always turn out thin and rubbery, so I can’t wait to try out a new pancake recipe as well as a few others from DelightfulRepast.com Boost Energy 21 ways to boost your energy has some great tips on how to get your energy back. I’m going [...]
A collection of cool stuff I found this week: Environmentally conscious toothbrush Radius Toothbrush makes an environmentally conscious toothbrush. You can replace the tops of the brush! I discovered this thanks to Random Recycling. How to make a grocery bag holder My sister knitted a grocery bag holder for me that I love. I was [...]
