The Green Cat's Profile

I'm not sure I get this. The wallpaper tiles are magnets so you have to have a metal wall? What is a "pre-treated magnetic wall" (as mentioned in the post)? Is that a wall painted with magnetic paint? While it's cool, I'm not entirely sure this should be called "environmentally conscious". Sure it keeps those wallpaper strips out of the landfill, but is it "environmentally conscious" to create magnets or to paint walls with magnetic paint just to hang wallpaper on them?

I don't have enough counter space but I would use this so often that I would give up the space for it! (Plus it would let me get rid of so many other appliances that it would be worth it.)

My mother always made spritz cookies (butter cookies from a cookie press). Just this weekend I made them myself for the first time. This is the epitome of my childhood Christmas!

The metal filter for my coffee maker never worked properly--I kept getting grounds in the pots so I made some simple reusable fabric filters out of muslin. They work just as well as paper ones. I rinse them after use and then once a week boil them all and/or soak them in an oxygen bleach to break up the coffee oils that accumulate. No waste!

Or you could just get a reusable filter and avoid the issue altogether.

I made chocolate pasta once. The only thing I liked with it was to mix the cooked pasta with raspberry jam and whipped cream. Made a decent dessert but in the end I wound up tossing most of it as unusable.

I think the only way to improve these ugly accordion gates is to replace them. I have security gates on my bedroom windows that are white and open like doors. Yes, they still look like gates on the windows but they let in more light and feel less like jail!

I find unsweetened dried cranberries (and other fruit) at the Westerley Market bulk bins here in NYC. Try your local natural food market.

I'm not certain I'd want to eat something that had been in contact with a balloon. They aren't (as far as I know) food safe. And we hear all sorts of warnings about what leaches out of plastics etc, particularly when they come in contact with heat.

As an Etsy seller I always want a customer to be satisfied with my items!

I did have one bad experience that was ultimately resolved in my favor. I ordered a print from a seller whose blog I also followed. In her blog she mentioned that she was working to find a new print shop and so print orders would be delayed. She was also in the process of buying the farm she'd been renting and so was understandably busy. I waited until 3 months had gone by with no direct contact from her. I wrote to her a number of times (both through the Etsy site and via her email) and still had no reply and no print. It was too late to apply for a refund through PayPal so I reported her to Etsy. Ultimately she sent me a note saying she would not be able to send the print and she refunded my money. Her shop has since been shut down by Etsy.