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Today’s feature is from Martha Stewart with instructions for making these lovely Stone Planters: Make your own stunning planter using stones and cement. Making these is easy! Fill a large plastic bin with sand and make a hole inside, arrange the rocks along the sides of the hole, fill with cement, stick in a couple dowels for [...] Also See These Tips: DIY Craft & Tool Station: Repurposing Small-Space Raised Salad Box: {DIY} 15 Potting Bench Plans: {Free DIY Projects & Tips}

Working with a potting bench during gardening season is pure luxury and you’ll find yourself looking forward to puttering away at your own little garden center. You can have everything organized in one location, including bags of potting soil, empty pots and containers, hanging garden tools, plant food and fertilizers (just make sure to store them [...] Also See These Tips: Build A Potting Bench: DIY Project DIY Upholstered Bench From Ugly Coffee Table Laundry Table Plans With Optional Glow Light

If you’re new to Tipnut or wish to revisit a few of the goodies, here is a list of popular tips from last month (based on page views) that you won’t want to miss. They’re in no particular order. The next set has a thank you and introduction to a few bloggers that shared Tipnut with [...] Also See These Tips: Tipnut’s Hit List – January 2010 – Popular Tips Tipnut’s Hit List – February 2008 – Popular Tips Tipnut’s Hit List – February 2009 – Popular Tips

Today’s feature is from Bloom with this lovely Foldover Bag Tutorial: Ready for a casual and fun spring bag?! Here it is: the Fold-Over Bag! This can be a really fun and functional bag. I used a home dec weight fabric from ikea for the exterior of this bag, but you could also use a regular quilting [...] Also See These Tips: Smile & Wave’s Tote Bag Tutorial Piano Shoulder Bag: Sewing Tutorial Heat Resistant Curling Iron Bag – Sewing Tutorial

Easter lilies (Lilium longiflorum) are beautiful with their white trumpet flowers and are traditionally given as gifts or purchased for decoration during the Easter season. This year don’t toss the plant after the blooms are gone–try transplanting the lily in your garden and you could be rewarded with more blooms in the Fall (if you’re [...] Also See These Tips: Spider Plant Care & Growing Tips Jade Plant Care & Growing Tips Forcing Bulbs Indoors For Winter Blooms: How-To & Tips

I fired up the barbecue for the first time this year (the weather has been unusually nice lately) and now I’m on the hunt for this year’s first batch of potato salad–I’m looking for something new to try. This week’s Recipe Hit List is a great selection of recipes I’ve found around the ‘net, some [...] Also See These Tips: 12 Homemade Salad Dressing Recipes 27 Pasta Salad Recipes To Try 12 Egg Salad Recipes To Try

This method for cooking/steaming broccoli is a must-have in my kitchen bag of tricks. Use fresh bunches of broccoli and you’ll never settle for bags of frozen again–it comes out delicious in minutes with no special gadgets required! Here’s how… How To Cook Broccoli In The Microwave Wash and trim broccoli bunches then separate into smaller pieces, [...] Also See These Tips: How To Microwave Fresh Corn on the Cob Cleaning A Microwave: How To & Tips Herbal Decongestant Steam Blend

Here’s a fun, creative cushion idea from Matching Pegs for today’s feature: Star Fruit Cushion Tutorial: This cushion is really a large version of a Lotus Biscornu, and used May Britt’s Pincushion Tutorial as a starting point (with her permission). I thought it ended up looking like a cut piece of Star Fruit, hence the [...] Also See These Tips: Sewing Organizer Tutorial Sewing Machine Mat – Sewing Tutorial Reversible Toaster Covers: {Sewing Tutorial}

For easy reference here are all the patterns from the Peasant Gal series: Monday – Laundry (includes pattern instructions) Tuesday – Ironing Wednesday – Needlework Thursday – Dishes Friday – Baking Saturday – Cleaning Sunday – Day of Rest More Vintage Embroidery Pattern Sets Tableware Series: Complete Set Bonnet Gal Kitchen Towel Patterns: Complete Set Garden Harvest Kitchen Towel Designs Kitchen Designs For Towels Bluebird Days Of The [...] Also See These Tips: Vintage Embroidery: Complete Set – Tableware Series Bonnet Gal Kitchen Towel Patterns: Complete Set Garden Harvest Kitchen Towel Designs: Complete Set

Here’s the seventh free embroidery pattern from the vintage Peasant Girl days-of-the-week series, it’s a day of rest for Peasant Gal and she is carefree with a scarf around her head. Pattern Download: You can download this week’s pattern here: Peasant Girl – Sunday. Printing Instructions: Save the pattern to your desktop first (right click, save as…), open the [...] Also See These Tips: Peasant Girl Dish Towels: {Wednesday Pattern} Peasant Girl Dish Towels: {Thursday Pattern} Peasant Girl Dish Towels: {Saturday Pattern}