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Using Non-electric Tools and Appliances

If there was a power outage in your neighborhood for the length of a day, how much of your household appliances and gadgets would be useless?

After a few good outages the past few years, I’ve grown to dislike the electrically powered appliances and tools we own. These include both small and large items such as, a sewing [...]

Homemade Cloth Pads

Making your own cloth pads is easy and smart. You not only save on money, you also do your part lessening plastic production and waste. Everyone I know who wears cloth pads say they are so much more comfortable than store bought disposable pads. For those of you who prefer tampons over pads see: The DivaCup

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Sewing Frustrations

Today I realized how utterly frustrated I become now while sewing! I think I know why, first of all I’ve always used such ridiculous machines that are so finicky about fabric thickness, or thinness, belt issues, motor issues etc. Secondly, fabric! Fabric is not like wood where you can cut it to an exact size [...]