If you want to pleat curtains for your dollhouse windows and don’t want to make a pleater board, you can get similar results just by pleating with sewing needles. One of the benefits of pleating by hand is that the pleats will look more natural, and you can pleat larger pieces of fabric. The pleats … Continue Reading
This copycat recipe is based on Ikea’s vegetarian plant balls, which are used in their restaurant as a meat-alternative option for their Swedish meatballs plates. This recipe combines the traditional ingredients of a Swedish meatball with plant-based protein options using ingredients commonly found in most grocery stores. The meatballs in this recipe are light, moist, … Continue Reading
These recipes are the actual recipes that Ikea released to the public at the start of the 2020 Covid pandemic. They provided the recipes when everything shut down so that customers could get their “Ikea meatball fix”. Ikea released two recipes. One recipe was posted on Twitter and other was posted on their website. The … Continue Reading
After inheriting and cleaning a very large collection of heirloom silver plated items, I learned that using any shortcuts such as chemicals or acidity do more damage in the long run. The best way to clean tarnished silver If these are silver plated pieces that you want to cherish for years to come, the only … Continue Reading
Should You Heat Cork Before Cutting? Several online resources suggest soaking or steaming cork to make it easier to cut, especially for projects using wine corks. Heated cork expands and its elasticity becomes more uniform (it normally has elastic anisotropy properties – one directional). This can help provide a cleaner cut and makes sense … Continue Reading
Before You Do Anything! Take a lot of photos and measurements. Take photos of the interior to capture how everything is attached to the side board. Measure the distance of the support poles and bolts from both the ceiling and from the corner of the roof. Measure the locations of the exterior support bolts … Continue Reading
When you open your Google Photos account, you land on the main library screen. This screen presents you with all the photos you’ve added to your account as well as photos that have been shared with you by other users. The one nice benefit to having all the photos appear in the main library is … Continue Reading
During our Jayco pop-camper restoration, we needed to repair the 4 corner caps on the body of the camper. These caps protect the corners when the camper’s roof is in a fully closed position. The caps overlap the trim, and they cover/protect the inner wall which would otherwise be exposed. Our caps were dry rotted … Continue Reading
After having cleaned 50 glass votives used at a wedding, we finally found a method that actually worked. Once we removed the votive candles, we were left with bits of wax and grit on every glass. Heating the glass did help a little, but there was still a waxy film residue and gritty bits of … Continue Reading
Here is a fairly easy, inexpensive way to make graduated braided rope curtain tie backs. Curtain tie backs aren’t as popular as they used to be, but they are a necessity for outdoor curtains. In our case we needed them to prevent our curtains from flying everywhere in even the slightest breeze. We bought inexpensive … Continue Reading
The pop-up camper that we were remodeling had the typical laminate countertops. Ours were in a sandstone finish, which would not work with the white and gray interior we were hoping for. In addition to that, the small cabinet beside the front door was missing its countertop. We had thought about painting and then sealing … Continue Reading