how to make your own foaming hand soap

It’s super easy and inexpensive to make your own foaming hand soap.  

ingredients for making your own foaming hand soap

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how to peel a tangerine

Next time you peel a tangerine, make yourself a horse.

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how to remove lint from a dark fleece jacket or vest

Removing lint from a dark fleece jacket or vest is easier than you think.  After I tried unsuccessfully with a lint roller, lint remover, and "magic eraser," I decided to try a one-sided razor blade.  Guess what?  It works!

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image ©2019 Carole Terwilliger Meyers

easy Instagram tutorial

Want to learn some easy new tricks for Instagram. Browse this quick and easy Instagram tutorial. It's all in print. No boring videos to wade through.

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how to put a screen door back on its tracks

This man thinks fixing his screen door will be a snap. It sort of is.

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how to build a log cabin

Building a log cabin doesn't look so difficult and it takes less than 5 minutes here!

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men having fun, or how to catch a mud crab

Don't give up on this video before the end.  It's well worth the wait.

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how fresh butter is made

Here's how to make butter in a Mason jar.

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how to get your kids to come home for the holidays

This is a sure-fire method to get those kids home for the holidays.  Have a tissue ready to dab away the tears.

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how to make a lovely hangar with a vintage doily

How to turn a vintage doily into a useful and beautiful hangar

 by Carole Terwilliger Meyers

1.  Start with a beautiful crocheted doily (perhaps one of grandma's, if you are so fortunate as to have one) and a padded satin hangar.

2.  Thread the hangar head through a center hole in the doily.  Adjust it so it hangs evenly over the hangar body.  Pin the doily to the hangar with a long pin with a large head.  Weave it in and out several times, ending with the sharp end down in the fabric.  Alternatively, sew the doily to the hangar using loose, long stitches.  This will secure it. 

3.  Admire your handiwork and congratulate yourself on getting grandma's doilies out where you can see them.  Make plenty and give them away as gifts--if you can bear to part with them.

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how to make a star out of a chopsticks wrapper

This child isn't too impressed by her mommy trying to entertain her by making a star out of a chopsticks wrapper.  But mommy is having fun.  Ah, finally the noodles arrive!





How to make a chopsticks wrapper bird out of a chopsticks wrapper.

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video ©2016 Carole Terwilliger Meyers 

how to make a clarinet from a carrot

This creative Australian teaches you how to turn a carrot into a clarinet. But do be careful with that drill!

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how to remove hard-water stains from a toilet

How I wish I'd known this back when I visited my Grandpa's farm.


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how to pour a proper Guinness

It's time to celebrate all things Irish, green, or related to St. Patrick. What better way to start the proceedings than to down a properly-poured Guinness?

video ©2014 Carole Terwilliger Meyers

Recipe for a Guinness Chocolate Cake.

Recipe for Irish Brown Soda Bread that goes well with a Guinness. 

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how to keep your plants healthy with diapers

Did you know that in addition to keeping your baby dry a disposable diaper can actually keep your plants wet and help you grow happier plants?



item contributed by Linda Randolph

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shortcut for slicing cherry tomatoes

Here's another cooking tip that might appeal especially to men.

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how to peel a potato efficiently

Next time you need a potato peeled fast--ask a man to help!

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iPad painting of Morgan Freeman

Artists have been painting with the iPad for a while.  I recently saw an exhibition by David Hockney in San Francisco that showed some of his amazing iPad paintings.  This video shows you how it is done.  I gather it took artist Kyle Lambert more than 200 hundred hours and almost 300,000 strokes to achieve this image.

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secret of levitation in India

How do they do that?

 

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how to make the best baby announcement ever

Try this one out on your mother next time you have a new baby announcement.

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