Arts And Crafts Photo Gallery. Vinyl Facelift Tips. Posted on September 14, 2011 in Bizarre If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Facebook or Twitter . Thanks for visiting! Rate this Post Loading ... So... What do you think? Check this out on our Partner Network. How To Clean Your House in 20 Minutes a Day for 30 Days | Apartment Therapy Chicago. When I first learned to clean my own place, I thought Saturday had to be an all day clean-a-thon.
I didn't really have a concept of how to balance the work load during the week so weekends could be reserved for larger projects or even you know…fun! Now I clean in 20 minutes a day — every day — and things just seem to take care of themselves. Here's a glimpse at the schedule I use! No one said you had to do everything at once and even when time seems short, if you can manage one task a day, things should start to work themselves out. 1) Dealing With What Comes Through The Door Set up a small area by the front door to act as a "landing strip" for incoming items to your home. 2) Do Your Dishes After Every Meal This will help you stay on top of your kitchen instead of having it turn into a monster! 3) Laundry If you have a washer and dryer at home, do a little bit each day. 5) Set a Timer Most items on the list below should take no more than 20 minutes total. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Tiny Polaroid Magnets | { Ambrosia Girl } Hi there! It’s felt like forever since I’ve last blogged, and has felt like an eternity since I’ve done anything crafty and nifty. Since my morning sickness has gone into full speed (yes, we’re expecting our third this fall!) I haven’t felt like myself. But nothing like inspiration to wake one out of a reverie — or nightmare, in my constantly sick state. I came across these DIY Pantone chip magnets on How About Orange and wanted to do something similar.
You will need: Cardboard (mine was the backing of a sketchbook — much thicker than the back of a regular spiral bound notebook) or 2-3 sheets of white cardstock or poster board spray-mounted together to use as a sturdy backing to the magnetsOpaque white marker (necessary only if your cardboard is not white) Craft knife Metal straight edge/ruler Clear packing tape or frisk film. Step 1: Download a Photoshop file of the Polaroid frames below. Step 2: Print out photos onto photo paper. Step 4: Trim out photos with craft knife. 487 Comments.
Health. Finances. Pomodoro Technique. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Time management method The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s.[1] It uses a kitchen timer to break work into intervals, typically 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for tomato, after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer Cirillo used as a university student.[2][1] Apps and websites providing timers and instructions have widely popularized the technique. Closely related to concepts such as timeboxing and iterative and incremental development used in software design, the method has been adopted in pair programming contexts.[3] Description[edit] The original technique has six steps: For the purposes of the technique, a pomodoro is an interval of work time.[1] After task completion in a Pomodoro, any remaining time should be devoted to activities, for example: Cirillo suggests: Tools[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
Homemade Playdough Recipe. What a treat! The ever creative Jill from Homemade by Jill is sharing her homemade play-dough recipe and tutorial. Jill writes… Homemade playdough is a great summer craft! It is easy enough for kids to help with, only takes about 10-15 minutes, and gives you comparable results to store-bought playdough. Ingredients needed: 1 cup flour1 cup warm water2 teaspoons cream of tarter1 teaspoon oil1/4 cup saltfood coloring When in this process you allow your kids to assist is entirely up to you. Combine all ingredients (except food coloring) in a medium-sized saucepan.Stir over medium heat until smooth.Stir continuously until the dough balls (about 1-2 minutes). When dough is cool enough to handle, knead until smooth.Form into a ball.Divide into as many colors as you’d like to make.
Add food coloring to the divided dough. Repeat with the rest of your colors.Put the dough in separate containers. Hmm … I feel like I’m forgetting the most important step. 101 Best Genealogy Websites of 2010 - Family Tree Magazine. By David A. Fryxell From state vital records and censuses to historical books and immigration data, this year’s 101 Best Websites list features tools that can bust your brick walls—but not your budget. In a bumpy economy, is there any more welcome word than free? When we took a break from checking our credit-card balances and 401(k) accounts to consider this year’s 101 Best Websites, the theme was as obvious as the lint in our wallets: the best free genealogy sites. Fortunately, when it comes to online genealogy, the old sayings “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” and “You get what you pay for” go right out the window. Defining “free” isn’t as simple as it sounds, however. So welcome to the 2010 edition of Family Tree Magazine’s 101 Best Websites.
Click on any of the following categories to explore this year's 101 Best Websites: Or, you can download this printable PDF of all of this year's best websites. 10 Inexpensive Activities and Games. Money is tight anymore. Between a recession that we are all tired of hearing about, low amounts of jobs and high unemployment, we should all be saving our money.
But we are going to be equally, if not more, bored when we are poor as we are when we have enough money to spare for luxuries and hobbies. You may not have enough money for the Nintendo Wii, you may be a few dollars short to go to the theatre and see a movie, maybe you are using most of your paycheck to fill up your car, so you can go to work, so you can get a paycheck that is just enough to fill up your car for the commute to work. So what is there to do that is fun, but very cheap? Most of us have at one time seen the flamboyantly colored guns that fire the harmless foam darts with suction cups for tips. After you obtain your new blaster, try Capture the Flag, Elimination, King of the Hill, and many more game variants. Two teams occupy one half of the playing area each. A catalyst can be anything. Jamie Frater.