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101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home. I love to discover tips which make housework easier!

101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home

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 I've collected 101 visual tips from all over the web to help you save time and money in every room of your home. About this post Most of these tips were found via Pinterest (which by the way is a great resource for discovering tips to help around the home!). Wherever possible, I've attributed the image and tip by means of links to the original site or web-page, but if you think I have made a mistake please let me know the original source and I will correct the link.

What are your favourite household tips? Do you have any favourite tips from this list? You might also enjoy these posts... THE NATURAL HAVEN: Ingredients : Natural Hair Shopping List. There are a host of websites proposing and condemning certain ingredients in hair products.

THE NATURAL HAVEN: Ingredients : Natural Hair Shopping List

Scientists spend a lot of time and money investigating the formulation of products. For example the imaging instrument to 'see' if a product is on the surface of hair or within the hair costs upwards of several million dollars initially and then tens of thousands to maintain on a yearly basis. I do not wish to trivialize the work of these scientists by suggesting only one ingredient is good.

Formulation means people are paid to mix the ingredients, decide what size is suitable, which emulsion works best, which ingredients work well together etc. Good products will also change formulations as they recognize that products can always get better! Today I'll highlight some ingredients (this is just a guide) which can be very beneficial for natural hair. 1. Many of us use conditioner to wash hair. Sophisticated stuff - Good combinations of 2 or more of these ingredients. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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Search results for 'crochet' Search results for 'crochet' Basic Shell Edging. Crocheted edgings are very pretty, whether they are on blankets, skirts, bags, or anything you can thing of!

Basic Shell Edging

The item you add a crocheted edging to doesn’t even have to be crocheted. In fact, here is a very simple edging pattern that you can sew onto the border of your items. Sometimes it’s difficult for beginners to crochet evenly around an item, so this method of creating an edging and sewing it on, can simplify the process. Note: it may be tricky for beginners to keep track of all the stitches if your foundation chain is long. Be careful counting your stitches! Finished Size: each shell is 3/4″ (2 cm) tall, but edging can be as long as you want it to be Use the instructions at the beginning of the pattern to make the edging fit your item.

Gauge: not that important for this pattern. Need help understanding the abbreviations? Crochet Pattern: Basic Shell Edging Start by making a foundation chain as long as you want your edging. When you’re done your edging, sew it onto your item. Love at first sight: the pattern. Apr13 Good morning sweeties, It is so great to have you here today… This is the pattern of “love at first sight” and I must warn you: This is really a love-at-first-sight-kind-of-pattern…You’ll be hooked and totally, deeply taken by it… It is such a pleasure to crochet and the result is wonderful…specially when you make the last round in black (or it can be in another color) to join as-you-go.

Love at first sight: the pattern

Love at first sight: the pattern. Love at first sight: the pattern. Neat Ripple Pattern. Ahhhhhhhh look at all those hooky ripplesome ripples, aren't they glorious?

Neat Ripple Pattern

I love crocheting this pattern, its relatively simple, rhythmic and soothing, but playing with colours in this way is also energising, exciting and a lot of fun. Well to me it is any road. there's something magical and mesmerising about the way the ripple effect makes the colours sing and dance next to each other, and it's a pattern I can see myself coming back to time after time. When I made my first ripple blanket last year (finished in August 2008), I followed a pattern in Jan Eatons book (the Soft Waves pattern), and it has to be said that at first this pattern was not plain sailing. But I persevered and eventually I cracked it. But truthfully I always think crochet patterns look and sound far too complex, more than they actually need to be. Directory of Free, Online Crochet Patterns by Category.