Create a guerrilla garden of lavender, to make your own lavender pillows:
Posted on 03/23/2008 11:36:40 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Americans finding soaring food prices hard to stomach can battle back by growing their own food. [Click image for a larger version] Dean Fosdick Dean Fosdick
Home vegetable gardens appear to be booming as a result of the twin movements to eat local and pinch pennies.
At the Southeastern Flower Show in Atlanta this winter, D. Landreth Seed Co. of New Freedom, Pa., sold three to four times more seed packets than last year, says Barb Melera, president. "This is the first time I've ever heard people say, 'I can grow this more cheaply than I can buy it in the supermarket.' That's a 180-degree turn from the norm."
Roger Doiron, a gardener and fresh-food advocate from Scarborough, Maine, said he turned $85 worth of seeds into more than six months of vegetables for his family of five.
A year later, he says, the family still had "several quarts of tomato sauce, bags of mixed vegetables and ice-cube trays of pesto in the freezer; 20 heads of garlic, a five-gallon crock of sauerkraut, more homegrown hot-pepper sauce than one family could comfortably eat in a year and three sorts of squash, which we make into soups, stews and bread."
[snipped]
She compares the current period of market uncertainty with that of the early- to mid-20th century when the concept of victory gardens became popular.
"A lot of companies during the world wars and the Great Depression era encouraged vegetable gardening as a way of addressing layoffs, reduced wages and such," she says. "Some companies, like U.S. Steel, made gardens available at the workplace. Railroads provided easements they'd rent to employees and others for gardening."
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Makes me really glad I breastfed all mine! Sis is doing the same. Gbaby is too old for a bottle. Whew!
Create a guerrilla garden of lavender, to make your own lavender pillows:
Top 10 Things To Do When You Become Unemployed
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 01:23 AM CST
With the American economy (and many others in the world) potentially on the verge of collapse we are all subject to being out of a job any minute. One day we’re working, paying the bills and enjoying happy hour. The next day we are unemployed and panic is starting to set in. Don’t worry! Here is my Top 10 List of Things You Should Do When You Are Suddenly Unemployed. If you have extra tips for people who have lost their job or are going to lose their job, please add them in the comments.
10
Apply for Un-Employment Insurance
Unemployment Line-749345
If you were downsized or fired then go to your local unemployment office and apply. You may qualify for months of unemployment compensation. If you quit your job then it may be harder to collect but try anyway. They can also help you to write a resume and find a new job.
9
Assess your finances
Personal-Finance-180-3-709764
Make sure you can pay the rent and buy food until you find another job. If need be, cancel the fancy HBO cable TV package or start buying the no-name breakfast cereal. Get on a payment plan for other bills if you can. You don’t know when you will get a paycheck again so start hoarding the money you have. You may need to get a part-time job before you get a full-time job of your choice. Swallow your pride and do what needs to be done.
8
Update your resume
Application
Include all skills and education you have and show potential employers what you have done in quantifiable and measurable terms. Never lie on a resume, but “puffing” your accomplishments within reason is acceptable. Only include references that you know will speak highly of you. Include key words that will get the future employers attention. Most resumes are scanned by computers so a good trick to use is customize the resume and cover letter for the specific job you are applying for. Use the same words companies use in the job description such as, “Self-Starter” or “Proven Results.” They will be picked up by the computer and get your resume moved to the top of the pile.
7
Network
Networking Professionals
Ok, you want to stay low key and not let everyone know you are unemployed. You have to do just the opposite and let everyone know you are looking for a job. Networking is the #1 way people find jobs. Let your working friends and family know that you are looking for and need a job now. Everyone has been in your situation before and knows what it is like. Be honest and get them a copy of your resume. They can usually help you directly or refer you to someone else that is hiring.
6
Relax
Relax
Use this time to reassess your career choices, catch up on some reading or just veg in front of the TV for a few days. You don’t have to get up at 6am anymore to drive in rush hour traffic to get to work by 8am. Take a walk, smell the coffee, play with the kids. Give your mind a chance to recharge and re-evaluate your life. Maybe a new career is what you need. Maybe even a new city. The point is, take this down time to sit back and enjoy your vacation. You’ll be back to work soon enough and your next vacation will be a year away.
5
Keep in Touch with Co-Workers
Business Lunch
Your ex-boss or co-workers may be able to keep you abreast of re-hire opportunities at your former company. If the decision is made later to bring back former employees, you may be considered if you have kept in contact with with your bosses or peers.
4
Get Healthy
Exercise
You always used the excuse “I don’t have enough time to exercise or eat right.” Even though there was a state-of-the-art gym in your previous office building, you never used it. Now is the time to hit the treadmill or take a jog in the park. Use that neighborhood gym membership one more month (before you have to cancel it because you’re broke). Since you have less money you should be eating out less. Get the fast food out of your diet altogether. Set a goal and try to lose those pounds or inches off your waist so you look great for your next job.
3
Do volunteer work
Volunteerworkii
Not only will volunteering help others in your community that need it, you can add that experience to your resume. It is also a form of networking. You may meet someone working at a hospital or homeless shelter that can offer you a paying gig.
2
Surf the web
Large Wireless
While searching for jobs on sites such as Monster.com or CareerBuilder.com, you will no doubt stray into other areas of interest such as political news, sports, music, etc. That’s ok, but try to stay away from too many recreational sites (especially porn). It’s ok to be up to date on the latest music, fashions or other crazes, but don’t get sidetracked too often. However, I do recommend a daily dose of List Universe. The things you will learn on this site will enlighten you tremendously.
1
Stay Positive
Old-Man-Laughing
Don’t beat yourself up about your situation. It probably happened for a good reason. You know you didn’t like that old job anyway! Now it’s time to move on to the next phase of your life. Go to church, mosque or synagogue and pray on it. If you are not religious then just meditate and focus on the positive and don’t feel like you are worthless or a loser. This is a time in your life to build your character up and show the world what you are really made of!
Contributor: MT
http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-10-things-to-do-when-you-become-unemployed/
Gbaby is too old for a bottle. Whew!<<<
The other answer is “Get a Goat”.
I did not know about goat milk for my daughter, but in her day it was Carnation Evaporated Milk, water and Karo Syrup for a formula.......then they invented the soy formulas and look at the change in children.
My daughter moved back home when the baby was about a month old, I objected to the soy crap and on that formula, she had an upset stomach all the time.
I talked to the local doctor, Dr. Kline said “you have goats, put her on goat milk”...No way Debra hated goats.
Dr. Kline said, “One of these days she will run out the door and yell, “you fix her formula, I gotta go”, when that happens call me and I will tell you what to do .....
Yep, that day came, as I recall he said to heat the milk, add Karo and cool it.
I did and for the next year that I had her, she had only one fretting day, [the day a ‘city doctor’ gave her baby shots] and
there was never another upset stomach, she was so happy and people could not pass her by, without a smile.
Then Deb took her and moved to Hawaii and put her on cow milk and I do not think Lisa was ever pleasant again.
My thought on the wire cage for growing.....here it will not work, it will dry out too fast.
A solid wall would work, LOL, first to mind was some way to stack cement double blocks, that could be fun, if one left some of the blocks sticking out like an arm, you can drop about a 5 inch pot of herbs in there to grow.
Maybe that is how to get the hole in the wall for the pots....turn one sideways and you would have a hole, but the next would be in the normal block wall style.
This year, most people used barrels and old tires to stack and grow pots in.
That wire cage in the photo, does work for a ‘personal’ compost bin, when one is not good with the giant compost bins.
Make the same wire cage, make sure it will stand and not fall over and plant around it.......you will throw leaves, weeds, and once in a while well rotted manure on top of it and water it in.......instant compost tea.....and is my way of making compost, old trash cans work fine, if there is no bottom in them, and one day you tilt them and and dump the black gold out.
My best and favorite is a large cone about 3 foot tall and almost that diameter, I sit it in the greenhouse or yard bed and plant all around it.........when I wound up with a couple rabbits, I set the cage on top of it, so they gave it manure daily and when I watered, I stuck the hose in the cone and let it make tea every time, as I pulled weeds, etc, I stuck them in the cone and fed some to the rabbits.
Bill drew a line of refusal, when I asked for a pulley set up full length of the greenhouse, to hang rabbit cages on and move them each day, so they kept adding manure all over.
Sounded like a good idea to me, rabbit factory at the source, fish in the barrels of water, I posted something on that early in the thread......and a goat...for that I bought the seeds of weeds such as amaranth that will grow to 6 foot and can be used for hay....
No wonder folks call me nuts.
In Britain they say the water is contaminated with birth control chemicals and that Viagra-type components are starting to be found in fish.<<<
This is happening on the east coast and in several areas.
There was a report a few months ago, of a woman cooking a fish and her 10 year old daughter said she did not want to eat the pills, they found several pills in the fish, I don’t remember if they knew what kind? The Gov was investigating.
When you sit down to plan your garden, spend a little time figuring out how to grow the most nutrition, and flavor, for the last amount of money and effort. This will help ensure you continue to have food even during times of poverty.<<<
I was surprised at how little I know about the important food values, when I ordered from Walton Feed.com, they have a section called “Read my Label”, the link is inside the catalog of foods.
Omega 3 has been on my list for years, as I recall Purslane is
one weed that is high in it, I got the seeds at Nichols garden nursery and they cover this type of info in some of the descriptions.
When we get back up to the mountain we are going to start stocking up on food, and I am going to learn to can the food we grow. This situation is crazy. I want to be as self sufficient as possible and learn to live on one salary so I can stay home and take care of my garden and my home and my family.<<<
An excellent plan and one that I have pushed for 40 years, as you never know when a partner will get sick, and not be able to work.
Bill came home in the middle of the morning, said “will you take me to the hospital, I think I am having a heart attack”.
He was and it was two years before he could do light work.
The December 2008 issue of “The Safety Review,” CPSC’s e-newsletter, is available (in pdf) at:
http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PUBS/tsr1208.pdf
****************************************************
NEWS from CPSC
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Office of Information and Public Affairs
Washington, DC 20207
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 2, 2008
Release #09-058
Firm’s Recall Hotline: (800) 451-4600
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908
Hockey Helmets Recalled by Reebok-CCM Due to Head and Neck Injury Hazard
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Hockey Helmets
Units: About 1,000
Distributor: Reebok-CCM Hockey U.S. Inc., of Montpelier, Vt.
Hazard: The helmet’s chinstrap can unexpectedly disengage while in use. If this happens, the helmet can fall off, posing a head and neck injury risk to consumers.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported.
Description: This recall involves RBK and CCM brand hockey helmets. Helmets included in this recall have a HECC sticker with date code JUN - 2013. HECC stickers and model numbers are located on the back of the helmets. Models included in the recall are:
Brand | Model Numbers | Colors Of The Helmet Shells That Require Inspection | Colors Of The Helmet Shells
That Are Not Affected By This Recall
RBK | HT8K | Black/Black, Black/Silver, White/Silver, Navy, Red, Green, Maroon, Yellow | White/Black, Royal
RBK | HT6K | Black, White, Navy, Red, Royal | None
RBK | HT6K Combo | Black, White, Navy, Red, Royal | None
RBK | HT4K | Black, Navy, Red, Royal | White
RBK | HT4K Combo | Navy, Red, Royal | Black, White
CCM | HTV10 | Yellow | Black, White, Navy, Red, Royal, Green, Maroon
CCM | HTV10 Combo | Black | White, Navy, Red, Royal
CCM | HTV08 | Black, White, Royal, Yellow | Navy, Red, Green
CCM | HTV08 Combo | Black, Medium Black, White, Navy, Royal | Red
CCM | HT692 | White, Navy | Black, Red, Royal
CCM | HT692 Combo | Black | White, Navy, Red, Royal
Sold at: Sporting goods stores nationwide and Internet retailers from May 2008 through July 2008 for between $80 and $200.
Manufactured in: Canada
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using and return the helmets to the place of purchase for a free replacement helmet.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Reebok-CCM at (800) 451-4600 between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s Web site at www.reebokhockey.com and http://en.ccmsports.com
To see this recall on CPSC’s web site, including pictures of the recalled products, please go to:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09058.html
I love goats, already shared that with you! I wonder how people ever got started drinking cow’s milk in the first place? My gpa was a sickly baby and they raised him on mare’s milk. Or so I’m told. :)
Sorry about your gdaughter. :(
There have been a few staple online mags and resources on the scene for a while, but with new mags popping up here and there I thought I would try to do a bit of of a roundup and see how many I could find. If you know of any more please comment.
image: ‘lakeside’ lacy knee high socks from knotions magazine
knitty.com - quarterly knitting magazine with patterns and articles
ravelry.com - online knitting community - patterns, forums, wiki, and more
twist collective - new online mag with some really nice patterns [only a few free patterns] and articles
knotions - new online mag with some really cute patterns
the inside loopUK based mag - small range of nice patterns
teen knitter magazine - downloadable PDF - written by teens for teens.
meta post modern knitting
- stylish patterns
the anti-craft - lots of fun for the sinister crafters
who knits - some free patterns and articles - interesting article about the internet and free patterns
knitting pattern central - updated guide to free patterns available all over the web
knitting on the net - resource of patterns available on the web
popknits vintage inspired patterns
knitters review - resource guide and how-to articles
for the love of yarn - small online mag with a few interesting patterns.
black purl - ethnic inspired patterns
knit on the net - some nice patterns
free vintage knitting - resource for vintage knitting patterns
knitting help knitting videos
Print magazines or yarn stores with a free online pattern section.
Rebecca
knit n style
coats and clark
elann
garn studio
lionbrand
lana grossa
sweater babe
jimmy beans wool
berroco
knitting daily - from interweave
vogue knitting online
knit1 magazine
rowan yarns
debbie bliss online
hello yarn
interweave knits
other fibre craft online mags
spindlicity - for spinners
weavezine - for weavers
crochet uncut - new crochet mag
crochet me
Languages other than English
Ulla (Finnish)
Resources gleaned from the blog comments:
Knit.1 (http://www.knit1mag.com/patterns.php)
Phildar (http://www.phildar.com/) has a couple hidden away
http://www.tejemanejes.com/ in other languages than English
HTTP://WWW.DIYLIFE.COM/2007/08/23/DIY-TOOLKIT-KNITTING-AND-CROCHET/
HTTP://WWW.BERNAT.COM/SEARCH.PHP?PST=K&ADVPS=Y
A whole directory here, sorted by pattern type:
http://www.knittingpatterncentral.com/directory.php
http://stardustshoes.blogspot.com/2006/10/cloth-shoe-pattern.html
Child’s shoe pattern:
Download the shoe pattern and tutorial here.
It doesn’t take much to make these shoes...just scraps of fabric, some interfacing, elastic. The only thing that might be hard to find is the bonded fleece for the sole. It’s suede on one side and fleece on the other. I got mine at Joann’s. They sell it for $19.99/yard, which seems steep, but I bought a half a yard and used my 40% coupon, and I have enough to make a TON of shoes! If you can’t find it, I’d be glad to arrange a swap for some of mine. You might be able to get away with fusing a couple of layers of felt and/or fleece together, but I’ve found the bonded fleece to be super soft, yet sturdy. The best for soles by far. Sorry, am I going on and on?
I can’t wait to see what you come up with! Post pictures of your completed shoes at the cloth shoes flickr group.
p.s. Thanks again to Ohelene for the inspiration. If you are interested in making leather shoes, check out her pattern here.
Posted by Joanna
There is a photo and several hidden links to the patterns....
As I do not willingly click hidden links, you will need to get your own patterns.
This is the basic pattern for shoes that my friend Mary made for me to wear for several years, when I could not wear regular shoes.
Many of our supplies were ‘found’ and all were recycled, I do not recall ever having a pair that we ‘bought the material for’.
Mary used old Levi’s for the soles, old wool coats, skirts, etc for the inside and pretty scraps for the outside parts.
They are washable.
When I had my shop, so many people wanted them for a simple house shoe, and others with arthritis in the feet wanted a pair.
And so Mary at 80 years old found herself in the shoe making business, we had them in all sizes.
Take a look at the shoe, you may want to remember what they looked like some day.
The year that I had all the small kids for Christmas, we made them robes with ‘shoes to match’.
granny
http://whipup.net/2008/11/22/elephantine-list-of-tutorials-for-babies-parents/
elephantine list of tutorials for babies & parents
[all hidden urls]
bib tutorial
growth chart
swaddle sheet set
patchwork ball
diaper and wipes case
baby hat
baby bib
crochet baby blanket
manly baby vest
cloth shoe pattern
felt baby book
baby sling
bib pattern
soft cube
vintage baby patterns
guide to baby booties
knits for babies
baby sweaters and jackets
bitty booties
itty bitty baby dress
swaddling [image shown]
crochet baby quilt
baby kimono
[let us know of any more]
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One Comment on “elephantine list of tutorials for babies & parents”
1. Jan Andrea Says:
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
I have a ton of free projects on my website - about 12 different baby carrier variations, plus small diaper bags, nursing bra ideas, and all kinds of other stuff :)
http://www.lollychops.com/lollychops/2008/11/abraham-owl.html
Abraham Owl
Hi there lovely ladies (and possibly a gent or two)...my name is Abraham Owl and I will be guest blogging for LollyChops today. She plum wore herself out from sewing all day long yesterday and called in a panic asking that I write up a post for her. I graciously accepted and decided to do a post on my favorite subject. Me.
In this post I will chronicle the story of my life. My rocky tumultuous beginnings through the dramatic turn of events that lead me to meet the woman of my dreams. I promise not to leave a single detail out. You might laugh. You might cry....regardless... you will not leave with an empty heart.
Sew let us begin shall we......
Instructions for making the owl, which is a cutie, simple and made of cloth scraps, any size you want.
[LOL, these, I used 45 years ago and from the comments, no one knew about them and it is the hot “I gotta get one “ item of the day....
I used up several of them, any thing I could trace, I did...
granny]
http://stardustshoes.blogspot.com/2008/10/iron-on-transfer-pencil.html
Iron-on Transfer Pencil
Hey, I bought myself an iron-on transfer pencil. Let’s play!!!!
Get your desired image in the desired size. Who cares if you run out of printer paper? Rip a sheet out of the kids’ notebook and use that instead. Trace the outline using the transfer pencil.
traced
Flip the paper over and iron using high heat.
iron
Admire the successful transfer. Woo hoo!
He was and it was two years before he could do light work.
Were you prepared at that point, Granny, or did you have to learn?
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