Shortly after arriving at our winter home in Florida, we discovered that Pensacola has a year round farmers’ market that runs every Saturday in the Martin Luther King Plaza downtown on Palafox Street. It has become part of our weekend routine to stop by the Palafox Market to pick up locally grown produce and baked goods to add to our…
Now that we are further into our adjustment to being empty-nesters, Dave and I have been adapting the way we grocery shop. Some of the items we used to buy in bulk just don’t make sense anymore as they will go stale or bad before we could possibly use them up. More and more grocery stores are recognizing that singles…
Please note: For the basic construction of the travel laundry bag see my previous post. Materials needed to add letters to the laundry bag: Scraps of leftover fabric Heat N Bond Ultra Hold(<affiliate link) Print out the letters for the word “laundry” (or whatever word you’d like on the laundry bag.) I used the lower case bubble letters found…
Are you tired of trying to fit your dirty clothes into those cheap plastic laundry bags the hotels provide? Make your own sturdy Travel Laundry Bags to take on vacation or when traveling for work. After our kids were all grown and on their own, we put all our things in storage and then for the next few years, I…
Just a quick post to show you what I’m working on today: The travel laundry bags we’ve been using for the past several years were getting to the point where they could no longer be repaired. So a few weeks ago, I picked up two heavy white cotton sheets at a local thrift store to make new laundry bags. I…
Need a quick to knit pattern to use up all those balls of yarn leftover from other projects. These Scrap Hats are the perfect project! They knit up quickly from whatever worsted weight scraps you happen to have. The pattern is for an adult size hat or as we call them in Canada; toques. But once you’ve knit one, you’ll…
I discovered several balls of worsted weight yarn leftover from other projects in the bottom of my knitting bag. None were big enough on their own to make anything so I’ve decided to make scrap hats or as they’re called in Canada… toques. Below is a photo of the one I started last night while watching Selling LA on…
Recovering Lawn Chair Cushions – Part 1 Part 2 – The Faux Piping Part 3 – Sewing the Back and Seat Together When I was removing the buttons from the cushions prior to taking the cushions apart, I started thinking about where I was going to get new buttons that would match the new fabric. I checked out the price…
Learn how to recover lawn chair cushions to give them new life at a fraction of the cost of buying new ones. The step-by-step instructions provided in this tutorial will show you how I went about recovering mine with new fabric while reusing the inside foam and batting and recovering the buttons. Also included is an easy faux-piping technique will…
Last summer, the sheets were on the line when we had one of those pop up thunder storms come through. We hurried out to rescue the sheets before they got soaked. They hadn’t had a chance to completely dry, so we decided to hang them over a couple of bedroom doors. Except… when I was trying to fling the fitted…