Archive Category: 'Popular Tips'

• 42 Yarn Stash Busters: Kitchen Goodies & Cozies: Here’s a list of free patterns for a variety of kitchen items and cozies, these are great projects for using up the burgeoning yarn stash you may have piling up in the craft cupboard. The bulk of the patterns are for knitting but I have included a dozen crochet patterns as well (toward the bottom of [...]
• Tipnut’s Hit List – March 2008 – Popular Tips: If you’re new to Tipnut or wish to revisit a few of the goodies, here are the popular tips from last month (based on page views) that you won’t want to miss. They’re in no particular order. The next set has a sampling of a few goodies from the past as well as a thank you [...]
• Homekeeping – A Natural Shine To Cleaning (Recipes): Here’s a tip list of over a dozen natural cleaning recipes I compiled from an article published in the first issue of Martha Stewart’s magazine (Martha Stewart Living, Winter 1990). I went through a slight obsession years ago to own each and every Martha Stewart Living magazine, this picture is a scan of my copy of [...]
• 21 Free Tutorials For Needle Books & Cases: Here’s a collection of free patterns and tutorials for sewing / embroidery needle books & cases. I also included a source for an elegant crochet thimble pouch pattern at the bottom (you can attach it to your case if you like). Materials vary, there are felt, fabric & cross stitch covers. Some are simple, others quite [...]
• How To Build A Fire Pit – Tips & DIY Resource Guide: One of the things I enjoy most during the summer is sitting around a fire pit at night visiting with family and friends and having a nice fire going. Marshmallows and hotdogs always seem to taste better when they’re roasted over a fire, don’t you think . How To Build A Fire Pit If you’d [...]
• 45 Cooking & Baking Tips: A Collection Of Timeless Wisdom: Here’s a handy list of cooking and baking tips from the 1950s and 1960s that I’ve collected from a variety of vintage clippings. Each of the tips are from magazine articles or newspaper advice columns containing helpful ideas sent in from women sharing their tips with each other. I consider these tips as timeless wisdom, [...]
• Tipnut Mailbag: Clip Sponges & Cloths Used For Dirty Jobs: This tip was sent in from Margie and it’s a great way to keep sponges & cloths used for nasty cleaning jobs separate from your good stuff: Clip Your Cleaning Sponges & Cloths If you are going to use old face cloths, dish cloths, tea towels or sponges as dust rags or for messy cleaning jobs cut [...]
• Tip: Index Card Shopping Master: Have you ever dashed out to the office supply store for printer ink, but forgot the shopping list at home that noted the printer make and model? Or you’re at the store picking up milk when you see there’s an in-store coupon for a big mark down on batteries–you remember that the tv remote seems [...]
• Tipnut’s Hit List – February 2008 – Popular Tips: If you’re new to Tipnut or wish to revisit a few of the goodies, here are the popular tips from last month (based on page views) that you won’t want to miss. They’re in no particular order. The next set has a sampling of a few goodies from the past as well as a thank you [...]
• Learn How To Crochet – Free Resource Guide: Here’s a collection of step-by-step resources available online (for free!) that will teach you how to crochet. I’ve included both videos and illustrated tutorials and more than one example of each learning step to help you understand easier. All of the resources below are for beginners, there are a few crochet dishcloth patterns toward the bottom that [...]
• Learn How To Knit – Free Resource Guide: Here’s a collection of step-by-step resources available online (for free!) that will teach you how to knit. All resources are for beginner knitters and I’ve also included a selection of beginner knit dishcloth patterns at the bottom of this post to practice knitting. If you already know how to knit, you might enjoy them too. Step One [...]
• 30 Free Patterns For Knitting Needle Cases, Rolls, Pouches & Organizers: You can easily organize your knitting needles and supplies with a needle roll or pouch. Here’s a big list of free patterns for knitting needle rolls, pouches and circular needle organizers. You’ll find some that are quite large and elaborate, others are more simple and small. Something for everyone! I’ve included patterns that are sewn, crocheted [...]
• Tipnut’s Hit List – January 2008 – Popular Tips: If you’re new to Tipnut or wish to revisit a few of the goodies, here are the popular tips from last month (based on page views) that you won’t want to miss. They’re in no particular order. The next set has a sampling of a few goodies from the past as well as a thank you [...]
• Tipnut Mailbag: Pot Lid Taming Options: Here’s a hot tip sent in from Sarah (website SarahAnnSmith.com) that gives a couple new ideas for organizing pot lids (you know — those things that get jumbled up and hide in the cupboards and drawers). This is the newest addition to the Tipnut Mailbag section: Pot Lid Taming Options: Use the spring-tension curtain rods! Run them [...]
• How To Beat The Soda Pop Addiction: I used to be a heavy cola drinker (somewhere between 2 to 4 cans a day) and I decided that for me, cola was ok in moderation but drinking it daily in the amounts that I was just wasn’t a healthy habit. I found the trick to kicking the soda pop addiction was finding a replacement [...]
• Tipnut’s Hit List – December 2007 – Popular Tips: If you’re new to Tipnut or wish to revisit a few of the goodies, here are the popular tips from last month (based on page views) that you won’t want to miss. They’re in no particular order. The next set has a sampling of few goodies from the past as well as a thank you and [...]
• Tipnut’s Hit List – November 2007 – Popular Tips: Here are last month’s popular tips published on Tipnut, if you’re new to the blog or if you missed some posts last month, these were the popular ones (based on page views). They’re not in any particular order. I’ve also included a few oldies but goodies at the bottom you may like, as well as a [...]
• 52 Free Apron Patterns You Can Make: This is a large list of patterns I’ve collected from around the net, all kinds of styles and types included. If you love aprons, you’re gonna love this list! These are organized as neatly as I could manage, however some patterns fit well in more than one section. I decided to list them in a single [...]
• 25 Helpful Items To Remove Sticky Adhesive Goo: Things like price stickers and labels, different types of tape (packing, masking, scotch tape) can leave behind a sticky gooey residue that’s a tricky mess to remove. Here’s a list of items that can help make the cleanup job a lot easier. Careful: Please test in an unnoticeable area first to make sure there will [...]
• Tipnut’s A Year Old Plus October’s Popular Tips Roundup: You know you’re getting old when time just whips past you and you have no idea where it went. Last month was the one year mark for Tipnut and I can’t believe that I didn’t realize it until this week! I had my eye on the date earlier in the summer, then gone. There’s no big [...]
• 43 Cake Baking Tips & Tricks: Here is a large assortment of tips I’ve accumulated over the years. Different recipes will provide different results, but overall I’ve found the tips do noticeably improve most cake recipes or make baking cakes and working with them easier. Some recipes success depend on a specific ingredient or action. If one of these tips contradicts your recipe, [...]
• Tipnut’s Hit List – September 2007 – Popular Tips: If you’re new to Tipnut or just in case you missed them, here are the hot tips from September’s posts (based on page views and not in any particular order): Interested in making a household notebook to keep organized? Here ya go: Make A Household Organizer Notebook – Buncha Links If you’re wondering how to make gift [...]
• Homemade Gift Baskets – The Ultimate How To Guide: Have you always wanted to learn how to make beautiful homemade gift baskets or have a large running list of basket themes and gift ideas at your disposal? Then this is the ultimate How To guide for you! Today’s tip is jam packed with videos for how to make gift baskets as well as lovely homemade [...]
• Sunburn Relief Home Remedies – Over 50 Soothing Treatments: This is a large collection of home remedies and treatments I’ve compiled to help with sunburn relief, there are over 50 soothing treatments to review. At the bottom of this post you’ll find some information about signs to watch for when determining if medical attention is needed as well as blister care and signs of infection. Melanoma [...]
• Over 40 Mosquito Bite Itch Relief Tips: It’s mosquito season and I have buffalo sized ones zipping around the backyard as I type this. Thanks to their first feast on my ankles tonight and an earlier comment from Kim, I was inspired to dig through every tip I had regarding mosquito bites and relief from the itching. Scritch Scratch. I haven’t tried most [...]