Author: HTV9
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New Laundry Stain Removal
Tonight I anointed my sweater with the kiss of ketchup. Lots of ketchup. This is my second favorite sweater so I wasn’t too pleased. In a lot of cleaning handbooks and guides there’s this guide to stain removal that is a bunch of arcane wizardry and mystical chanting, more or less ordering you to go…
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Portable Zen Garden
Ingredients: 1 bag of aquarium sand A few pebbles Reclosable plastic container Fork You can close it up when it’s not in use so you can keep it in a high traffic living room or office without as much fear of it spilling © www.abrandnewbookofdays.com 2024
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Wooden Plant Marker In Action
Strictly speaking this isn’t necessary as a post but I’m just so proud of it. Here’s how the wooden plant marker looks in the garden. That mint does need water so it got a pitcher of it after I took this photo and will get a good drench tomorrow. © www.abrandnewbookofdays.com 2024
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Waxed Wooden Plant Markers
Here’s a plant marker for mint that grows directly in the soil on the North side of the house. It got planted there due to the least amount of sun and the greatest amount of moisture throughout the Texas year. Directly in the ground would make other gardeners in other places quake in their boots…
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Decorating Plant Pots With Crayon
This is both easier and harder than it looks. Easier in that all you do is color on the plant pots. Harder in that if they’re outside it’s best to wait for a nice day temperature and weatherwise. It would be a lot easier to do this with brand new pots that were brought indoors…
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Knit Dust Rags
So this is a practice run of stockinette stitch. It’s probably suitable for a beginner knitter. I’m not going to put in a tutorial here of how to knit or purl, cast on or bind off, or overhand-knot and weave in yarn ends, because you can find all those in various places online, but if…
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Orange Pineapple Juice Ice Cubes
Here’s what I did. I added some pineapple juice then orange juice to this ice cube tray after taking out the electrolyte cubes in there and rinsing it out. Chopped the top and bottom off an orange, put shallow slits down the side of it and peeled off the peel without the watery parts using…
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Less Simple Cheese Plate
This cheese plate builds on the original cheese plate https://abrandnewbookofdays.com/2024/07/25/simple-cheese-plate/ with some toast, honey, applesauce, crackers, olives, a pickle and a can of soda. This one really was a “let’s clean out the fridge” plate © www.abrandnewbookofdays.com 2024