I make my own detergent. One bar of plain soap, grated in the food processor, plus 1/2 cup each of borax and washing soda, use one or two tablespoons per load. A batch takes about five minutes to...

Dang! You beat me to it, Erika. My log does not like to have jokes pulled out from under it. But how much fun can it be if it isn't big, heavy, or wood?

I hear you Nadya. Love-hate is the word when it comes to tchotchke. I have a large collection of realistic plastic dinosaurs from my husband's childhood, along with dinosaur mugs, wooden skeleton...

I do this and it really draws compliments. In the fall when the farmer's market ends I pile up hard squashes that we eat throughout the winter. In the summer when I am canning tomatoes we have a ...

Ctrl I could do. Brackets definitely. Finding F5 might be harder. And I would need one with a 10-key number pad. But I still want leather keys!

It's beautiful. Didn't anybody else have one of those typing teachers who sanded all the letters off the keys? I'm a transcriptionist by trade, so no letters is fine by me. And typ...

This idea is a little done-to-death, but I put my dish detergent in a glass bottle with a pour spout, and it did indeed make doing the dishes a less odious experience. If you don't h...