Taking a blog break to catch up on work stuff and kitty stuff - back soon, though! (ok, hiatus is, by definition, temporary, but you know what I mean)
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Make your own coloring books
Here’s another cute, cheap kid’s project - Chez Beeper Bebe has a tutorial on building your own coloring books; they’re very cute, and she has a lot of online sources of coloring pages. This would be a fun project for an older child to make for a younger child. Via WhipUp
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‘Fess up
Ok, who was searching for how to grow mushrooms with sweaty clothing??!! EW!!!
Seattle Green Festival
The Green Festival is this weekend in Seattle - we went last year and really enjoyed it. Lots of alternative energy exhibits, gardening stuff, more free samples of fair trade organic chocolate than you could possibly eat. I’ll be wandering around there on Saturday.
Buying stuff cheap - yarn online
If you’re a knitter, you know yarn can be really expensive - non-knitters tend to be surprised that it’s not almost free (and that it actually takes time and skill to knit something). I’ve found a few places online with inexpensive yarn lines, closeouts and discontinued colors.
Knitpicks has a good selection of basic yarns, very [...]
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How to add places to the Atlas maps
There’s been some confusion about how to use the maps, which I totally understand as they gave me fits to start setting them up, but I’ve got it now, so I’ll share here.
To add a point to a map, first click on the map name in our sidebar. That takes you to the map - [...]
Grow your own filberts - or not
When I moved into my house, there was a row of huge shrubs on the edge of the tiny front yard - they were really ugly, and produced nothing useful, so they had to go. (there’s a lesson there about survival strategies - cute or productive FTW) I planted a hedge of filberts from Raintree [...]
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Bathtub worm bin
I blogged about the Cheap Vegetable Gardener’s LED grow box over at Make a while back. He has a great blog, full of lots of good practical garden info - he recently posted about this DIY worm farm made from an old bathtub, really a nice setup.
New map - Where are you?
We’ve added a new map to the Atlas - let us know where you are!