Home and Gardening Today

Honestly, I was sitting here on the bed thinking about what I wanted to write about and caught a glimpse of our pillows on the bed.

Springmaid Density Bed Pillows

Every single time I look at these pillow cases from Springmaid, they make me smile.

They are the most vibrant colors reminiscent of the fantastic beauty of Indian fabrics and garb.

These pillow cases are adorned in melon orange, fading into scarlet orange, fuschia, magenta and then into a grapey purple, but not until there is an ornate pattern on the ends.

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Well, no doubt, if you’re human, you’ll have to hand wash your clothes at some time in your life.

When you do, remember these tips for an easy way to hand wash your clothes in a sink.

1. Pre-Soak: You will want to pre-soak your clothes in one side of the sink in cold water for darks and colors and warm for whites. This will get your clothes wet and releasing a good deal of dirt, if there is any.

* Tip: If you’re washing a variety of colors, be sure to start with all of your white, then pastels, then brights, then darks. If you get out of synch with this order, you’ll end up with pink whites, and dingy colors.

2. Wash: In the other side of the sink from where you’re pre-soaking, you’ll mix your water and washing detergent. A few items at a time, transfer the clothes from the pre-soaking side to the washing side after wringing water out of them.

You will swish the clothes around in the water, scrubbing any problem areas and being sure to squish the soapy water through them.

* Tip: You will be “balling up” each item and “kneading” it against the side of the sink - as you would a ball of bread dough. Allowing the ball the fill up with water again in between kneads, so you can really get a good wash through the clothing.

When you feel comfortable that they are adequately washed, item by item, wring out as much water as you can and set the clothes aside until you’re finished washing - whites with whites, colors with colors, darks with darks - and do not let them touch or you could have bleeding of the dyes in the clothing onto lighter colored pieces.

* Tip: If water in either side gets too dingy and dirty or you no longer feel soap on your hands when washing, empty the sink completely and start over with fresh water, or fresh water and soap, for the next batch of clothing.

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If you don’t want to buy pesticides or dangerous insect killers for your yard, try this method when trying to get rid of ants.

This is the “old school” way that your grandparents may remember.

If you put a trail of cornmeal and sugar mixed together leading out of your home, the ants will come and eat the cornmeal.

Well, cornmeal simply is not digestible for ants.

So, they eat it, or bring it to their queen in their ant hills and she eats it. She and the other ants cannot digest the grains of cornmeal, so they naturally die.

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When you go to the store and buy beans for bean plants, you can’t simply come home and plant them straight into the ground.

The same goes for peas as well.

When you get home, open up the packages and place as many of each type of bean plant into their own separate dessert bowl by type of bean (or another tiny bowl) with lukewarm water in it.

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