How to take Good Pet Photos

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Basic advice and easy tips to help you take good photographs of your pets.

How to Clean Stuffed Animals

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Here’s how to clean your children’s stuffed toys and animals to keep them looking their best.

Homemade Theme Gift Baskets

Homemade gift basket ideas, including items for a variety of themes, as well as container and presentation ideas.

Closing the Cottage

(NC)—When the temperature starts to cool down and the leaves start to fall from the trees, it’s time to start thinking about closing the cottage for the summer. Although a daunting prospect, home, car and business insurer RSA, has provided the following checklist to follow when closing the cottage, to protect your property during the… [Continue Reading]

How to Make Facial Skin Toner

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How to make and use your own facial toner, with four easy facial toner recipes to tone and cleanse your skin naturally.

How to Make a Cat Scratching Post

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Here’s how to make your own cat scratching post from a few pieces of lumber and a scrap of carpet.

How to Make a Toast

How to make a toast and raise your drinking glass on any occasion using acceptable party or business etiquette.

How To Make Tinctures From Herbs

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Here’s a primer on how to make your own homemade herbal tinctures, from herbs such as echinacea, eyebright, elder, ginger, peppermint, catnip and yarrow.

Homemade Bee Sting Remedies

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How to make a homemade bee sting remedy from common household ingredients.

How to Protect Pets from the Sun

When you smooth on suncreen this summer, consider dabbing a little behind your cat’s ears or on your dog’s nose. It can help protect them from harmful UV rays.