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tips on arranging flowers

I have always enjoyed having flower arrangements throughout my home. I have spent a lot of money over the years buying fresh and silk flower arrangements to use to decorate every area of the house. After I took early retirement, I started looking for things that I could do to fill my days. One thing that I started learning about was how to make my own flower arrangements. I have learned a lot about how to arrange silk and fresh flowers to create arrangements that are more affordable and exactly what I want for the different rooms in my house. Find tips on arranging flowers here on my blog.

Compelling Reasons To Invest In Big Foam Blocks For Your Classroom

Posted on December 28, 2022

As an educator, you want to help your students learn as quickly and easily as possible. You want them to make connections between numbers and patterns and learn to think and function independently. However, they might fail to learn what you want them to know through lectures and sitting at desks while reading textbooks or working on worksheets alone. Instead, you can use materials like big foam blocks to encourage students to learn through play. [Read More]

4 Tips For Repainting The Interior Of Your House

Posted on July 13, 2021

Paint is an important tool for interior decoration. It allows people to cover their walls with beautiful colors that hide the bare building materials below. If you've grown tired of the current color of your house's interior, it may be time to repaint. Selecting a color to look at every day for the next several years can be tricky. Here are four tips that will help you repaint the interior of your house with ease: [Read More]

3 Mistakes To Avoid When Using Hand-Dyed Crafting Yarn

Posted on October 15, 2020

If you are ready to purchase your first skein of hand-dyed yarn, you may feel a little bit apprehensive. Knowing what mistakes to avoid when working with hand-dyed yarn will give you the confidence you need to get started on your first project.   (1) Not purchasing enough yarn There is nothing quite as frustrating as getting halfway through your crafting project to find you are running low on yarn. Even when you follow the most accurate directions, the tightness of a stitch or stitching technique varies between individuals and may lead to more or less yarn being used. [Read More]

Ceramic Coating And Tinting For Residential Windows: Why You Might Want It

Posted on October 11, 2019

Ceramic coatings have been used on all kinds of vehicles, from cars to boats to planes. There are several good reasons why these vehicles benefit from ceramic coatings, but would these coatings work on residential windows? More to the point, could you get your home's windows both tinted and coated with the ceramic coating? Here are those answers, along with why you might actually want to do this to your home's windows. [Read More]