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How to Apply Long Lasting Nail Polish

Warmer weather is here, and most of us wear nail polish more often to show off our hands and feet. Here’s how to apply nail polish properly, for long-lasting effect.

Tuscan Style Kitchen

Easy, frugal ways to decorate a kitchen in the Tuscan style, including colors, accessories, and furnishing.

How to Organize Your Laundry

Tips to help you schedule and organize laundry chores from sorting and washing to putting the laundry away.

How to Recycle Old Books

How to recycle old paperbacks or hard cover books into useful items such as bookshelves, lamps, clocks, a book safe, table legs or child’s flap book; book sharing.

DIY: How to Make a Faux Marble Fireplace

Learn how to apply a faux marble finish to your boring fireplace surround and mantel in just one weekend.

Recycled Magazine Bowls

Recycle your old magazines and fashion some unique coiled bowls and containers using simple decoupage and gluing techniques.

Make Your Own Wool Dryer Balls

Replace dryer sheets with felted dryer balls that you make yourself from natural wool yarn.

How to Organize a Linen Closet

What to keep and what to toss? Organize your linen closet with these storage tips.

How to Make a Weathervane

How to make a weathervane, from simple wind indicators and science projects to free animated woodworking plans.

Make an Emergency Supply Kit

During a widespread ice storm, flood, hurricane, tornado or flood, you can’t count on receiving immediate help. But you can prepare an emergency supply kit to help you survive until help arrives.