Friday, July 4, 2014

How to Clean Roof Shingles

As the roof of your house is daily exposed to harsh environmental conditions like rain, heat, and sunlight, it easily becomes discolored. Discoloration coupled with the growth of mold, mildews, and algae can give an unsightly appearance to the roof, and make your house look worn out. Besides ruining the look of your house, organic growth can shorten the life of your roof.

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How to make a Mosquito Trap

All natural and potentially free way to create an efficent mosquito trap with little more than a plastic bottle

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How to Make Paper Beads

Want to know how to make beautiful, light weight, eco friendly, handmade, recycled paper beads! Check out this step by step instructions on how to make a paper bead, and you will enjoy and achieve some stunning results!

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How to make a hexagon DIY floor pouf

A step by step tutorial to make your own DIY floor pouf. The popular hexagon style pouf can be made in under an hour with basic sewing skills.

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Use Toothpaste to Hang Picture Frames

If you have problems hanging photo frames as straight as you'd like try using household weblog The Industrial Cottage's tip of dabbing of toothpaste on the end of the picture hook.

How to Save on airfare with 5 very important tips

Do you always go broke when you buy airline tickets? Is it confusing to keep going from website to website to try and find the best deals? Well, if you are having trouble booking cheap flights, have a look at this tutorial.

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DIY Stuffed Felt Lion

There are so many activities to entertain your children during the summer months outside, but what about when it is raining or just too hot? Rainy days during the summer seem to be the time when children get restless and are looking for projects to do around the house.

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The Ultimate Guide to Bacon

What a bacon-nalia the past few years have been, with everyone's favorite cured meat starring in cocktails, candy, condiments, you name it! But there's nothing like the smell of bacon in the morning, so we're returning the sizzling strips to their rightful throne: your breakfast table!

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50 Ideas of How To Create A Heaven In Your Garden

The garden is one of the most beautiful place a house could share with its guests! If you’re one of the luckiest persons on Earth that can enjoy daily a wonderful oasis near the house, you’ve come to the right place.

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The 11 Best Hot Dogs

Looking for a good humanely raised, hormone-free hotdog for your barbequing today?? We've got a list of our 11 favorites!

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15 repurposed planters just add dirt

When you see so many pictures of productive gardens in big backyards, it's easy to forget that gorgeous gardens also happen in small yards and surprising places. These 15 repurposed planters remind us that you don't need a lot of space and new materials to start growing your own garden; all you need is a little bit of ingenuity and resolve.

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Get Arthritis Pain Relief with Curcumin

We weren't born to eat drugs like candy. Yet osteoarthritis, so common and so very painful, has caused way too many of us to take our chances with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen and celecoxib (Celebrex), which can put users at risk for heart attack, stroke and gastrointestinal bleeding!

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Making Your Dreams A Reality with Beautiful Wedding Ideas

Are you looking for beautiful wedding ideas that will inspire and give you creative solutions for your ceremony and reception?

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Perk Up Your Patio

Create a fresh space for outdoor parties with just a few new buys for the backyard! Start with a fire pit -- this summer's hottest outdoor accessory -- then decorate around it to suit your style.

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7 Ways To Lose Weight In 7 Days

There's a lot more to losing weight than simply eating better and working out. If you want to dramatically increase your chances for long-term success, you'll also want to modify the behavior that surrounds your meals and physical activity.

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7 smart tips for saving on eyeglasses online

While forking over hundreds of dollars for a pair of prescription eyeglasses may seem inevitable — and painful — most glasses shoppers don't realize they can skip the eye doctor or retail shop for a number of cheaper alternatives online.

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5 Design Ideas for Sheared Shrubs

These living fences can set off areas in your yard and solve a multitude of problems. Here are pro tips and design ideas for shearing success

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Top Detox Foods

Contrary to popular belief, detoxification doesn’t have to be a chore. It’s not like cleaning the garage or behind the fridge. A gentle, total-body detox can be like having your own luxury spa right at home – you can run an Epsom salt bath, light some beeswax candles, and drink a delicious green vegetable smoothie. When people learn just howeasy detox and cleansing can be with the right foods, lifestyle practices and targeted supplements, it becomes a revolutionary way to revitalize long term health.

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Build Your Own Bloody Mary Bar

Whether they like them spicy, tangy or mild, your brunch guests will have a blast mixing up their own Bloody Marys -- and you'll be freed from bartender duty!

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How to Make Almond Milk

Almond milk is a satisfying drink that's delicious on its own, or when added to coffee or smoothies. Howdini shares a simple recipe to make at home that's even healthier than the one you buy at the store.

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Smoked Turkey How To

Ready to fire up your turkey with a bit of slow smoke? Here's the BBQ Tricks walk through of how to low and slow smoke a turkey.

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Reclaimed Wood Lamp with Himmeli Shade!

I pulled an old pallet apart...and there were big wood blocks between the layers.

They were junk and were placed in the "burn later" pile.

Last weekend we lit a smore's fire and I found one of the blocks in the burn pile...

Instantly in my head, it became a rustic reclaimed wood lamp...

and I rescued it from smore's fodder!

The Best Veggie Garden for Tiny Spaces

This quick and inexpensive planter will have you enjoying your own efforts at container vegetable gardening in a month or less. Put it on your driveway or your deck, on a sturdy outdoor table (no-stoop gardening!), or just on the ground. Anywhere that gets at least five to six hours of full sun a day will do.

Making The Most Of A Small Kitchen – Ingenious Storage Ideas

No matter what size your home is there never seems to be enough storage…so make the most of what you have!

No unnecessary remodels, no expensive gimmicks, just straightforward storage ideas for even the smallest of kitchens. These original ideas will inspire you and create space you didn't even know you had.

6 Smart Ways to Get Your Kids to Stop Fighting

Summer can sometimes be a pressure cooker for sibling rivalry, and if your kids are anything like mine, they somehow manage to fight over pretty much anything! While the battles may be over the tiniest details, the effects of that constant turmoil wear on everyone’s nerves. Have you ever wished for surefire way to just get your kids to STOP fighting?

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How to Remove (Almost) Any Stain

It’s happened to all of us at one point or another. We dribble coffee on our favorite shirt. Our 2-year-old decides to color herself–and her Sunday dress–with rainbow assortment of felt-tip markers. Our husband gets a little overly enthusiastic with his barbecue sauce. Our romantic candlelit dinner leaves us with candle wax all over the tablecloth. In any of these cases, and certainly a whole lot more, it is easy to just want to throw up our hands and declare a total loss. Yes, it’s unfortunate, we think, but what can we do? After all, these things happen.

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10 Awesome Freezer Meals In Just One Hour

These freezer friendly delicious meals use everyday ingredients and are perfect for those on a tighter budget.

In just one hour you can create a tasty batch of meals to keep in the freezer for those days when you just can’t be bothered to cook. Enjoy scrumptious simple, easy meals that the whole family will love whenever you want.

Homemade Home Fragrance- Just Like A William’s Sonoma Store!

With just a few simple items you can make your own scents to make your home smell fantastic, plus with 3 recipes you’ll have a few to choose from. No need for over priced chemicals when you can make a fresher healthier scent at home.

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20 Insanely Awesome Products That Will Make Your Home 100x More Fun

Discover twenty of the weirdest, but most fun, products (all of which are available on Amazon) you can add to your home to make it 100x more fun with this fantastic list!

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How to Locate the best travel tips and secrets

Make sure your vacation goes off without a hitch by searching the right places for travel secrets. This tutorial will show you exactly where to look to maximize your holiday.
You Will Need:

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7 Medicinal Herbs And Spices To Supercharge Your Health

So you’ve heard that many herbs have medicinal qualities. Terrific, but where do you start? The folks over at undergroundhealthreporter.com have a super informative post all about 7 top herbs and spices with a variety of healthful and medicinal benefits. To learn all about them, simply click on the link below:

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10 Ways You Can Tell If a Girl Likes You

You sit behind a girl in math class who you're secretly smitten with, and you pump yourself up each day to summon enough courage to ask her out before the bell rings. But your nerves always seem to get the best of you. You walk on to the next class without a Friday night date. Again.

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5 Best Tips For Long Nails

You can grow stronger and longer nails too. It’s not all about genes but about nail care! Today Atima Bhatnagar, NemoNails, whose strong and long nails are some of the most well known in the world shares her best nail care tips for long nails. Enjoy! – Maria

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Do you know how to get rid of acne?

Acne until it demands your attention in the form of a bright-red outbreak that can't be avoided. Plan now, and discover the best ways to combat this common skin problem.

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9 Practical Kitchen Cleaning Tips From A Busy Mom

How many people feel like keeping the kitchen clean is tough? We either just ate, are eating, or we are about to eat, at least it seems that way. I am always looking for ways to speed up the cleaning process, prevent extra cleaning, or multitask at its finest. Here are some tips and tricks that have helped me and I hope they help you too!

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DIY 25 Easy Hairstyles with Braid Tutorial

Try different hairstyles! Summer is always time for a new fresh look after a long winter. You can play them up or down for any occasion.

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Living Room Decor and Family Room Reveal

Are you looking for some home decor ideas? These are simple things that you can do to give your family room a new look. The secret of great design is color, texture and lighting and I hope this post inspires you to make your house a home that speaks of you.

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4TH OF JULY MASON JAR CANDLES

I don’t know about you but red, white and blue are quickly popping up all around our house as I bring out our patriotic decorations.

With the 4th of July fast approaching (can you believe THAT?!) we have a fun and easy craft to bring some American color into your home and your kids can even help too!

Just take a look at these darling 4th of July Mason Jar Candles!

JEANS REPAIR WITH LACE INSET TUTORIAL

When it comes to raising kids, I am one of the luckiest gals around. One of the reasons I am so lucky is that I am the baby of the family, which means, I have the good fortune to benefit from Debbie (the Oldest) and Tracy’s (the Middle Child) parenting experience. Here is one of my favorite tips from Debbie: Say “Yes” as often as you can. Make your “No’s” really count for something. Save them for when you really need them. I have used this advice so many times and been so glad I did. I have great teenagers and love my relationship with them. They are pretty respectful when I say no, maybe because I try not to say it too often.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

21 Weight Loss Tips You Have Probably Never Tried

We all know how to lose weight. Eat healthy, be active — basically burn more calories than we take in. Knowing how to lose weight is the easy part. It’s the motivation, self-control and daily habits that keep us from reaching our weight loss goals. We live in a world filled with temptation, and that makes weight loss more of a mental challenge than a physical one.

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Breathtaking DIY Outdoor Lamps

Patios, gardens, and backyards are all wonderful places to gather outside and spend time with loved ones or alone. Summer nights are often particularly pleasant times to enjoy the outdoors.

The problem then becomes how to light these areas? If you are looking for a solution a little more clever than “the 100-watt porch light bulb, of course,” you’ve come to the right place.

Here are some creative and stylish ways to light outdoor areas that you can create yourself.

How to Get Water Out of Your Ear

Water in the ear is a very common occurrence and can happen to anyone. While swimming or taking a bath or shower, water can get inside the ears. Normally, the wax present in the ear canal prevents fluid from going deep inside the ear. But at times, fluid can get trapped within the ear.

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101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home

I love to discover tips which make housework easier! From time-saving tricks to finding new and ingenious uses for old things, the Internet provides a wealth of information and advice. In this post They've collected 101 visual tips from all over the web to help you save time and money in every room of your home.
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36 Kitchen Tips and Tricks That Nobody Told You About

If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time planning meals and preparing food, making all of those helpful kitchen tips and tricks that save you time (and your sanity) worth knowing! And so, I have rounded up some of the best kitchen tips that just might have you saying “Why didn’t I think of that?”. I certainly wish I had known these a long time ago!

A few of these “secrets” I know I will use often (like fishing out broken egg shells and freezing leftover sauces). Whether you’re a workaholic who barley has time to open the fridge, a busy stay-at-home mom, or are in the running for your own show on The Food Network, I think you’ll find a few hacks here that will make life easier!

10 Genius Ways To Cool Your Home Without Air Conditioning

For the average household, summertime leads to higher energy bills as people crank up the air conditioning in their homes in order to combat rising temperatures outdoors. Unfortunately, families with a tight budget may find themselves forced to choose between in-home comfort or having to make sacrifices in other financial areas. Also, with the modern emphasis on green living and conservation, more and more individuals are likely to say “no” to AC and bear the heat in order to reduce their footprint.

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23 Innovative Mason Jar Projects For This Summer

Mason jars are no longer just for canning…in fact, their usefulness knows no limits and with these amazing ideas you’ll be able to find some fun projects for the summer!
There’s something here for foodies and crafters, for gardeners and home decor, so what are you waiting for? Get your mason jars out and get started!

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20 Insanely Clever Gardening Tips And Ideas

This is my first year having a true garden, and so far I’m loving the time I get outside playing in the dirt and absorbing the sunshine. It’s certainly a nice break from my computer! As a beginner, I’m learning a lot of things that will make next year’s garden easier, and hopefully a little healthier, too. I don’t want to win the prize for the largest squash (not there yet), but I do want a enough juicy tomatoes to last all summer long.

Whether you like to get your hands dirty in the garden or not, it’s nice to have a few gardening tips and ideas up your sleeve. Here are some of my favorite tips and tricks for your yard that I hadn’t heard of before. I thought they were all pretty clever, but then again, I’m still a rookie at this soil and seed stuff!