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Entertaining with a Modern Twist

Entertaining with a Modern Twist
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Cheep Ideas Oh Happy Day! Blog Archive » Grandma’s Stain Spray Grandma’s stain spray is so simple to make. And saved my favorite shirt. Okay. One of my favorite shirts. I pretreated the EVOO stain with Shout spray, left it over night, then ran the shirt through the washer AND dryer. The penguin shirt came out of the dryer with the EVOO stain still there. Or so I thought. I pretreated with Grandma’s Stain Spray, let it rest overnight, and ran through the wash again. Would you like some wonderful stain spray for your laundry room? Fill an empty squirt bottle with equal parts Water AmmoniaJOY Dishwashing Liquid Spray on stain and gently rub in. I strongly recommend using JOY dishwashing liquid. I can’t guarantee the spray will take out every stain you come across, but it works just as well (if not better!) I hope you have the same stain-fighting success! WARNING: Whether cleaning your bathroom or doing laundry, NEVER use bleach and ammonia products at the same time.

Public Speaking Tips - 7 Aspects Of A Dynamic Presentation Check out our new projector section click here. You will find reviews on the latest LCD projectors and DLP projectors for business presentations. There are 7 aspects people must deal with when preparing and delivering presentations. 1. ------------------------------------ ASPECT #1 - The Speaker ------------------------------------ One of the major components of any speech or presentation is the speaker themself (the source of the message). There are three factors we need to consider about any speaker: a. a. ==> Whether direct personal reward (e.g. $$$) or indirect rewards (feeling good about helping others) are involved. ==> Whether immediate rewards ($$ today) r delayed rewards (getting a college degree after 4 years of college play a part. In essence, a speaker may be motivated by one or BOTH of these factors. b. A speaker's ideas are accepted as believable only to the degree that the speaker is perceived to be credible. c. Content Style Structure Let's look at each of these elements. a.

30 Fabulous Reuses & Repurposes for Old or Recalled Cribs With new crib regulations, the resale of cribs is going to be pretty non-existent for a while. But don't you worry!! You don't have to use that crib for summer campfires! We've scoured the web for some cool tutorials and ideas for reusing old or recalled cribs! These repurposed crib projects are an awesome way to prevent your crib from going into a landfill, getting reused "inappropriately" or simply sitting in your basement collecting dust. NEW! Create a Cool Craft & Storage Center from your Recalled Crib Get Organized in the Laundry Room with Your Old Crib ** ConsignmentMommies "I Consign Too Much..." Turn Your Old Crib into a Bench or Chair A Repurposed Crib Becomes a Plate Rack Cool Message Centers, Chalkboards & Easels from Old Cribs Create a Photo Display from Crib Parts Organize Your Jewelry A Cool Magazine Rack Create a Cool Message Center for Your Office Create a Table Take it Outside to the Garden

Noodlehead Visual Perceptual Skills: Printables and Worksheets Visual Perceptual Skills: Mixed Review Mixed Review (grades PreK-1) Mixed Review (grades 2-3) Find the Patterns and Color Puzzle Visual Discrimination: Matching Letters and Shapes Match letters Match shapes Match shapes (made from rectangles) Visual Closure Incomplete Pictures Match letters Match shapes (easier) Match shapes (more difficult - more lines are missing) Adding to a Picture Adding something to one picture to make another picture Copying Patterns Copying Challenge Visual Motor Integration: Copying a Picture Very easy: 3 by 3 grid to copy Larger grids (up to 4 by 5) Larger grids, but all the lines may not connect to each other Up to 8 by 8 grids Same, but in a graph format More lines as part of the grid Same, but in a graph format Most difficult and lines do not always connect to each other Visual Figure-Ground Color the shapes Complete the Shape Redraw, Enlarge, and Reduce Shapes Teacher Recommendations: Worksheet and Lesson Plan Activity Ideas

Homemade Febreze-Go Green by staying Cheap! I've seen this on the internet a few times, so I thought that I would bring it to the eyes of you fantastic readers at instructables. Febreze- We all use it (I hope some of us do) to clean what we have dirtied, make that which is foul smell better, and generally add a hint of fragrance to our garments. In this short but sweet instructable, I'll show you how to make your own Homemade Febreze with things you should already have in your home. This is not my original idea. I see it on the internet a lot, but since it was not on instructables, I thought I'd share it with you here. The motive behind making your own Febreze type smell good cleaners is that the cost of making it yourself is lower than the cost of most cleaners today. UPDATE: I just found this instructable by Bigbadjohn81 on how to make Homemade Fabric Refresher.

Blog » 5 Secrets to a ‘No-work’ Garden It took over 20 years of gardening to realize that I didn’t have to work so hard to achieve a fruitful harvest. As the limitless energy of my youth gradually gave way to the physical realities of mid-life, the slow accretion of experience eventually led to an awareness that less work can result in greater crop yields. Inspired in part by Masanobu Fukuoka’s book, One Straw Revolution, my family experimented with gardening methods which could increase yields with less effort. Fukuoka spent over three decades perfecting his so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. Here are the strategies we used which enabled us to greatly increase our garden yield, while requiring less time and less work. 1. With ‘no-till’ gardening, weeding is largely eliminated. 2. Gardeners are always on the lookout for free sources of clean organic mulch to add to their garden.

How to make a cheap, awesome, professional Curtain Rod First off, thank you so much for being so kind about my new curtains in the dining room! I am taken aback daily by how many genuinely nice people there are in this blogging community. Thank you for loving the curtains along with me, and also thank you for just being plain ol’ nice. Now, shall we get down to bid-ness? Let’s talk Curtain Rods. I should dedicate an entire post just to curtain rods and best above ground pool, because after this experience, I think I know every single option of inexpensive curtain rod options in the greater Austin area. DIYing a Curtain Rod: I headed to Home Depot on a mission to find a practical inexpensive solution to my curtain rod dilemma. At Home Depot I found a variety of objects that could work, but in the end the heavens parted and I stumbled on Electrical Conduit. Bless the person that invented this light weight, sturdy, and extremely inexpensive product! But let me back up for a sec. I bought the conduit that was 1/2″ x 10′. Curtain Rings and Finials:

Goodnight Little Spoon Psicodiagnosis: Psicología infantil y juvenil Jueves 05 de Febrero de 2015 Algunos de los nuevos elementos: Temas relacionados: 1- Estructura del Wisc-IV. La primera impresión que podemos tener del nuevo WISC-IV es la de encontrarnos con algunos de los tests tradicionales en la familia WISC y que se mantienen en la nueva edición. A diferencia del WISC-R, en los que obteníamos sólo dos índices específicos (Área Verbal y Área Manipulativa) y uno general (CIT), ahora los diferentes datos se agrupan en 4 específicos y uno general: 1- Comprensión Verbal (CV)2- Razonamiento perceptivo (RP)3- Memoria de trabajo (MT)4- Velocidad de Procesamiento (VP) 5- Cociente Intelectual Total (CIT) Esta ampliación del número de escalas persigue, según los autores, efectuar un análisis detallado de los diferentes procesos implicados en el rendimiento intelectual, así como establecer relaciones (como se verá más tarde) con diferentes trastornos clínicos y del aprendizaje. 2- Escalas y subescalas: 3- Niveles de Análisis 4- Descripción de cada subescala:

The Finger Test to Check the Doneness of Meat Print Photography Credit: Elise Bauer There are two basic methods to test for how done your meat is while you are cooking it—use a meat thermometer, or press on the meat with your fingertips. My mother has been trying to get me to test meat with my fingertips for years, and for years, being somewhat of a scaredy cat (won’t it burn my fingers?) Then my friend David showed me up. Now the point of this story is not to embarrass David (though that would be fun, if it were even possible) but to encourage you, if like me, you’ve been shying away from trying this approach. This is one of those things that gets easier with practice. MethodHide Photos Open the palm of your hand. Now gently press the tip of your pinky and your thumb together. Press the tip of your ring finger and your thumb together. Gently press the tip of your middle finger to the tip of your thumb. Press the tip of your index finger to the tip of your thumb. Hello!

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