From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Accessories

DIY Birchbark Votive Candles">DIY Birchbark Votive Candles

Here’s a DIY project to bring some rus­tic charm to your cot­tage din­ner table using found pieces of birch­bark.
You’ll need: Birch­bark, clear-​​​​glass votive or tea light holder (a glass jar can also work), double-​​​​sided tape, scis­sors or util­ity knife.
How-​​​​to
1. Start with a piece of birch­bark that is more than suf­fi­cient to wrap around the can­dle holder. Sep­a­rate the […]

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DIY

Spring Mattress Wine Rack

Mat­tresses tend to stick around a lot longer than they should at a cot­tage, long past any point of being com­fort­able. Next time you’re ready to retire a squeaky spring mat­tress, give it a sec­ond chance as a wine rack.

Ready­Made mag­a­zine has posted the instruc­tions on how to make a mat­tress wine rack like the one at Radio Bean Cof­fee House in Burlington, […]

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Cleaning and Organizing

green cleaners

Fruits & Pas­sion has added two new prod­ucts to the quickly grow­ing list of green clean­ers on the mar­ket. The corian­der and olive tree glass cleaner and multi-​​​​purpose cleaner from the Cucina line get top marks for these green fea­tures: biodegrad­able as per OECD 301D test, at least 90 per cent nat­ural and plant-​​​​derived ingre­di­ents, and […]

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Uncategorized

Coffee Rituals

Among the adults at the cot­tage my fam­ily rented as I was grow­ing up, morn­ing cof­fee was always a lit­tle more elab­o­rate than your stan­dard drip or instant vari­ety. It was a source of pride to mas­ter the tra­di­tional La Pavoni lever-​​​​style espresso machine—to per­fect the art of the crema, to make the foam beau­ti­fully frothy, and to […]

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