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Natural Spring Cleaning

Natural Spring Cleaning

Stay away from toxic chemicals and resolve to do your spring cleaning the natural way this year.

How to Stock a Pantry

How to Stock a Pantry

Here’s how to stock a kitchen pantry, including a suggested list of staples, plus some tasty pantry stock recipes.

Homemade Surface Cleaners

Homemade Surface Cleaners

How to make natural homemade surface cleaners to clean windows, counters, painted cupboards and more.

Tuscan Style Kitchen

Tuscan Style Kitchen

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

How to Organize Your Laundry

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 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

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.

Make Your Own Wool Dryer Balls

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

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

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