More Transformations
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I’m still at it, so shoot me. I figure as long as this domestic spirit is upon me, however, I should go with it. Thus:
Q. What do you do with a bare wall and a daughter’s suggestion that the den should be full of art? That doesn’t cost anything? And that looks half-way decent?
A. Cover 3 campaign yard signs (the kind made of corrugated plastic) with 3 beautiful dishtowels someone gave you that match the room colors perfectly. Nail to the wall. Thumb tacks work beautifully on these “bulletin boards” to mount a rotating display of kid art…
Q. What do you do with a surface (top of the bookshelves) that collects piles of everybody’s stuff no matter how much you tell people to put their stuff away?
A. Apply a little “pile penicillin” by covering the surfaces with thrift-store baskets filled with computer and electronics stuff. Baskets can be labelled with cardboard labels, hole-punched, hand-lettered, and tied to the baskets with nice bits of leftover fabric ribbon.
Q. How to roll out and cut our family’s favorite Nova Scotia Oatcakes without making a mess or buying anything extra?
A. Plastic cereal box liners, opened to lie flat, are sturdy and large enough to make great no-stick roll-out cloths (good for candy-making, too… drop the candies on the liners to harden, and they’ll peel right off.) When finished with the cookies, you just roll up the whole mess and throw it away. A mason jar screw-top lid is the perfect size for cutting the cookies (biscuits, too!), without the getting-cookies-stuck-in-a-vacuum problem that using a drinking glass always has.
