Having a whole house to ourselves, Penelope and I often feel like a couple of kids when the parents are absent. We play fetch with the dogs in the hallways and let slobbery tennis balls bounce off the walls. We push furniture around and rearrange the rooms on impulse. We call every meal or break [...]
September 1st, 2008 | Posted in Crafts, Frugality, Furniture, Home, Home Decor, Repairs | 4 Comments
As the weather is getting warmer, and the neighborhood birds are returning from their winter holiday, I was inspired to make birdhouses for my next set of printables. These birdhouses can be used as gift boxes, storage, ornaments, or nesting boxes for small birds and pets (indoors only).
There are two kinds of walls, vertical panels [...]
March 15th, 2009 | Posted in Freebies | No Comments
When you purchase food, you are paying not only for the part of the product you intend to eat but also for the packaging, the bags, wrappers, and boxes which usually go straight in the trash. While plastic wrap and bags have little use beyond stuffing them full of trash, cardboard food cartons have a [...]
March 13th, 2010 | Posted in Crafts, Frugality, Home | 8 Comments
Here is simple home decoration project to spruce up your walls or sides of cabinets that have an electrical outlet or light switch plate. This electrical outlet pictured to the right is in a conspicuous place in our house and I found the yellowish white plastic color rather offensive, so I came up with the [...]
January 29th, 2010 | Posted in Frugality, Home, Home Decor | 1 Comment
I remember when I was very little, flipping through a very old book and seeing a craft project for making toy soldiers with toilet paper tubes. The image has come to mind now and then and I got the idea to make printable toy soldiers. They come four on a page. Print on card stock [...]
December 13th, 2008 | Posted in Crafts, Freebies, Holidays, Home, Home Decor | 2 Comments
Tiny leaks and evaporation put a constant drain on your resources. As discussed in our previous post, From Pennies One Million Dollars Grow, a few cents saved here and there can add up to be a significant amount. Here we offer 101 suggestions for plugging expenditures in various aspects of your life – around the [...]
September 25th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Featured, Finance, Frugality, Hobbies, Home, Money Management, Movies, Music, Shopping | 18 Comments
These Miniature Gift Baskets are a part of our Freebies series of Printable Gifts and Accessories by Madoline Hatter. They are great for gifts, flowers, treats or decorative purposes.
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March 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Crafts, Freebies, Home, Home Decor | No Comments