Month: January 2020

Most of us buy or receive these gorgeous orchids only to see them start dying in less than 2 weeks of having them. They do seem like the most difficult plant to grow, but if you have the secrets to growing them you can actually own orchids that thrive! The orchid is a popular flower associated with perfection, love, beauty, and luxury. Orchids are a popular plant choice for the home. The problem most of us have is keeping them alive! These are low maintenance to care for and beautiful to look at. I’ve attached a video with ten tips that are guaranteed to keep your orchid looking its blooming best month after month and year after year. A lot of people bemoan their incompetence at growing orchids. One person on Pinterest said her secret is to ignore them. She siad her orchids sit untou...

If you’re anything like me, I need to get rid of a few t-shirts…no, actually a lot of t-shirts! I have so many t-shirts I could open a t-shirt shop! It’s ridiculous, yet I kept hanging onto them. I’m glad I did because now I have the perfect way to recycle them! After learning that I could make yarn out of t-shirts and actually make some great things out of it, I jumped all in and started cutting t-shirts the way Laura, in the tutorial attached below, does it. She makes everything look so easy. You would think that cutting up t-shirts wouldn’t need instructions, but, believe me, there’s actually an art to it! I have loved learning to crochet with t-shirt yarn. The best thing about t-shirt yarn is that you can make it yourself really easily out of t-sh...