Pump up the volume by placing your iPhone / iPod in a bowl – the concave shape
Amplifies the music.
Overhaul your linen cupboard – store bed linen sets inside one of their own
Pillowcases and there will be no more hunting through piles for a match.
Stop cut apples browning in your child’s lunch box by securing with a rubber band.
Remove crayon masterpieces from your TV or computer screen with WD40
(also works on walls).
Rubbing a walnut over scratches in your furniture will disguise dings and scrapes.
Hull strawberries easily using a straw.
Use egg cartons to separate and store your Christmas decorations.
Gutter garden: Create a window-box veggie patch using guttering.
Freeze Aloe Vera in ice-cube trays for soothing sunburn relief.
Turn your muffin pan upside down, bake cookie-dough over the top and voila –
You have cookie bowls for fruit or ice-cream.
Sugar Cookie Bowls Recipe:
Ingredients:
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon No Color Almond Extract
Makes:
12 bowls.
Instructions:
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray the outside of each bowl cavity of Ice Cream Cookie Bowl Pan with vegetable pan spray.
Step 2
In medium bowl, combine flour and salt. In large bowl, beat butter and sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Add flour mixture to butter mixture, 1 cup at a time, mixing after each addition.
Step 3
Roll out dough on generously-floured surface to 1/8 in. thickness. Cut 4-1/2 in. circles from dough.. Drape one circle over each bowl cavity of pan, pressing to form smooth surface.
Step 4
Bake 11-13 minutes or until cookie cups are firm and golden brown. Cool on pan on cooling rack 10 minutes. Loosen bottom edges of cookies from pan using small spatula. Carefully remove cups from pan and cool completely. Wash, dry and spray pan; repeat with remaining dough.
Win friends at breakfast with this heart-shaped egg tutorial. Aww shucks!
Brilliant space-saver: install a tension rod
to hang your spray bottles. Genius!
Microwave your own popcorn in a plain brown paper bag. Much healthier and
Cheaper than the packet stuff.
Bake cupcakes directly in ice-cream cones – so much more fun and easier for kids
To eat. Definitely doing this!
Bread tags make the perfect-sized cord labels.
A muffin pan becomes a craft caddy. Magnets hold the plastic cups down to
Make them tip-resistant.
Attach a Velcro strip to the wall to store soft toys.
Add this item to your beach bag. Baby powder gets sand off your skin easily –
Who knew?.
A tip for holiday packing. Store shoes inside shower caps to stop dirty soles
Rubbing on your clothes. And you can find them in just about every hotel!
Forever losing your bathroom essentials? Use magnetic strips to store bobby
Pins (and tweezers and clippers) behind a vanity door.
For those who can't stand the scrunching and bunching: how to perfectly
Fold a fitted sheet.
Make an instant cupcake carrier by cutting crosses into a box lid.
Gotcha! Find tiny lost items like earrings by putting a stocking over the vacuum
Hose.
Look up! Use wire to make a space to store gift wrap rolls against the ceiling,
Rather than cluttering up the floor.
Re-use a wet-wipes container to store plastic bags.
2 comments:
I love these! I really want to try the walnut on my furniture, the straw for strawberries, the heart eggs, and the wrapping paper on the ceiling thing. Thanks for sharing, Diane!!
holy heck! i just wrote all of these tips down, this is genious diane! thanks for sharing. my favorite is putting sheets inside the pillow case. i just want my linen cupboard to look like that one :)
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