Decorating
From Better Homes and Gardens, ideas and improvement projects for your home and garden plus recipes and entertaining ideas. You'll get 2 full years (24 issues) of Better Homes and Gardens for the 1-year rate - just $22. Plus, we'll rush you ... [... more]
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Character by the Yard
If your landscape doesn't measure up, consider how these homeowners created curb appeal. If your family, like this one, thinks of landscaping and gardening as ways of life and expressions of creative energy, consider creating a fence and an arbor ... [... more]
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Making a Slipknot
This basic knot comes in handy outside knitting and crochet, too. Let the tail of the yarn hang in front of your palm, and loop the yarn loosely around the first two fingers of your left hand. Pull the yarn attached to the ball underneath the ... [... more]
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Simple Arbor
Frame a view, create an inviting gateway, or provide a verdant boundary for a patio or deck. This simple arbor can frame a view, serve as an inviting gateway, or provide a verdant boundary for a patio or deck. Erecting this structure takes only a ... [... more]
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Side Garden
Revel in the colors and blooms of a garden as you walk from the front yard to the back. This garden plan transforms the short walk from front yard to back into a stroll through a colorful shade garden. It brings beauty to the strip of ground ... [... more]
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Dainty Decanters
Whether you fill these pretty vessels with wine or bath crystals, they're sure to be appreciated. Store your liquids in this dip the handle of a paintbrush into paint and dot in a circle around the surface of the decanter. Let dry. Dot flower ... [... more]
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Age-Appropriate Discipline
Jan Faull, MEd, advises a mom on establishing appropriate rules and discipline when there is a seven-year age gap. Your children are at completely different places in their development and there's no way to treat them the same. Rules that are ... [... more]
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Away in a Manger
The words to this popular carol were first published anonymously in Philadelphia in 1885. The melody was later added by American composer James Ramsey Murray in 1887. Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet ... [... more]
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Simple Yet Elegant
This space-saving table setting is simpler than a formal setting. The fork and the knife beside the plate are used for the main course. The soup spoon is to the right of the knife. The fork and spoon above the plate are for dessert. If other ... [... more]
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Pasta Main Dishes and Sauces
Make a hearty and healthy meal for you family. Picky eaters? Let them select their own sauce! Lean ground beef and turkey make the hearty meat sauce low in fat. Use half in this recipe and freeze the rest for those hectic days when you're too ... [... more]
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Mediterranean Appetizers
A variety of flavors makes these Mediterranean appetizers irrestible -- and you can serve them any time of day. For your next appetizer platter, marinate cubes of feta cheese in herbs, olive oil, and lemon juice. The spinach, feta cheese, and ... [... more]
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A Fresh Start with Old Furniture
Stylish rooms can begin with flea-market finds transformed by clever cuts and coats of paint. It's been said that one person's trash is another's treasure, and today it's never been truer. Designers are viewing old furniture and castoffs of every ... [... more]
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