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what do you all think about "carbon credits" where you do stuff like plant X number of trees in exchange for flying X miles?

I didn't fill mine with anything. They seem fine so far. (It is very hot and dry here usually, although the bottles survived a freak snowfall/hard freeze this winter.) I've visited a 19th century bottle house at a mojave desert mining town, and it was made with empty bottles, too. I don't think fill...

My MIL loves the apple-tini mix that comes in a brick-shaped bottle. She gave me a crate of the bottles, and I used them to line a plant bed. (i need to take some pics to share!) I've always wanted to make a bottle house and have been nagging the hub to help me build one for an art studio. Short of ...

So glad to read about others' projects!

I just thought of another idea because of the plastic bag thread: jeans legs made into shopping bags!

Does anyone else here make jeans legs quilts? How about consolidating several old crappy t-shirts into one hip, hot, and happening one? Cutting socks off into arm warmers? What about transforming cute baby clothes into loveable pillows? This is a thread for sewing nuts to share ideas.

Your mustangs are utterly adorable! What darlings. How old are they and what gentling techniques do you use? I have a mustang, too, but he was horribly abused for a decade before my mom's friend rescued him and then gave him to me. I made some great headway with him, but I don't think he will ever t...

I have a technique that works great on regular small black ants. (I don't know about all of those exotic ones you folks mentioned above!) Anyway, what you do is spray them with a little glass cleaner and--IMPORTANT--leave their dead and dying carcasses stuck to the counter. Soon, their comrades will...

mmmm smoked garlic sounds yummy! I'd love to try making some of that!

Hello, self sufficientists! I live in Southern California, suburban world of smog and freeways, but that doesn't mean that I can't grow some food and reduce-reuse-recycle all kinds of stuff. My husband, two kids, and I have a fairly large backyard that came equipped with lovely rich soil, and we set...