I have been making muffins for at least two decades now, and I always add the wet ingredients to the dry ones, as instructed in the recipe. This means I end up with two wet-ingredient-covered bowls to wash.
It wasn’t until THIS VERY MORNING that it occurred to me to do it the other way […]

If you subscribe to Netflix, you’re familiar with the rectangle of paper you remove from each envelope to turn it from a “receive” envelope to a “send back” envelope. You can recycle that rectangle. Or, of course, you can make a swan out of it. Or a heart. Or a box. […]

Okay, I need to start off this post by saying that while I do know a good trick for creating side-swept bangs, I am by no means claiming that my own personal bangs are a shining example of the perfect side-swept style, so don’t go reading this and then looking at a picture of me […]

Doing laundry is okay, as chores go, until the putting-away part. Hate that. In some bedrooms, I can fold the laundry right into the drawers, but other bedrooms I have to fold it into piles onto the bed and then transfer it to the drawers.
One way I have made the piles-on-the-bed way a […]

I use a large, flat, rectangular, mattress-sized waterproof pad between the crib mattress and the crib sheet. (Darned if I could find a photo of one to illustrate this post, but they’re sold at places like Target and Walmart.) The crib mattress is already covered in vinyl, but having a removable, launderable pad […]