Thanks so much for this link! I love the flower lights idea for two reasons:
11]. When my garden dies out in the fall (like now!), I find it quite depressing. This year, I planted late zinnias, but I think the frost got them last night. To light the garden up during the long dark hours of winter would be a mental lift. I have plenty of metal fence posts that I use to support tomato cages/plants so they would make great ‘stalks’. Here are some zinnia pics that I posted on the garden thread yesterday, if you’re interested:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3790918/posts?page=25#25
[2] This past year, my elderly mom got rid of a lot of partially or totally non-working Christmas lights/decorations (outside lighted deer made from branches, etc.), plus they were getting too hard for her to deal with. We are in a rural area so flower lights up the sidewalk or along the driveway/fence would be really pretty. As simple as these are to make, if a light had an issue, it could easily be replaced. I have bookmarked the page – I’m going to have to set up a new database for all these craft ideas - I keep my knit/crochet patterns on a database so I don’t ‘lose’ them, also have them if the website links quit working.
The Homemade Vanilla …. a present I wish someone would give me since I haven’t had time to make it for myself. I have a couple of nieces who like making homemade gifts …. I’ll have to leave them some big hints!!
Flowers AND butterflies :-) DH and I were discussing the butterflies we’ve recently seen. If a caterpillar thought like we think, what would he think when he becomes a chrysalis and then a beautiful butterfly. Life’s stages
Just something to think about. What are our stages in life?
https://www.thebutterflysite.com/life-cycle.shtml
Oh my! I’ve collected all kinds of tips over the years. Remember the magazines FAMILY CIRCLE, WOMAN’S DAY, LADIES HOME JOURNAL? They were always filled with DIY projects. I’ve boxes of articles and finding more on the net because those boxes have been unavailable for months. We moved last year, remodeling the new (to us) house and living haphazardly in cramped quarters for the next few months. Love those old magazines published. Then politics stepped into the pages and the mags went belly up.
I long for a completed kitchen, unpacked boxes and order in my life. But most of all I anticipate a long, long, hot bath. Not shower person here.