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12 Sustainable Tank Tops for Your Basics Wardrobe

image: Vincent James The Best Sustainable Tank Tops Tank tops are a wardrobe staple, whether you live in a hot place and need them year-round or have short summers but love to layer like me. Tank tops can include anything from athletic ones to casual ones for a day at the park to ones that can be layered and dressed up for a night out. Due to their versatility, tanks are a foundational item that most of us have multiple of, and they should be part of any capsule wardrobe. With the variety of tank top options, I made sure to include a whole range of styles, prices, and sizes. Of course, they are all from brands that are sustainable...

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Saturday Thoughts...Teaching Kids to be self-sufficient

 Last week, one of the men at our walker’s coffeetime commented that his older sister’s new apartment was “neat as a pin”.  One of the other ladies and I both thought…right, she doesn’t have any kids or cats or dogs or a husband to clean up after like his wife does.  But both of us had also expected our kids to help around the house when they were at home.  Our son and I used to watch old reruns of Gene Autry Melody Ranch TV shows on public television on Saturdays when we cleaned house together. And my husband avoids making a mess, and helps with cleaning and cooking too.Today as I was cleaning our home, and was dusting baseboards, I...

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When I found this awesome video tutorial by Andrea Jean Cleaning, on YouTube, describing how to use foil in the laundry, I had to try it

When clothes are washing or drying electrons are moving and that causes static cling. By rolling some ordinary household foil in a ball and throwing it in the washing machine or dryer with your clothes, it provides the grounding that stops all of that static cling. Materials For Using Foil In The Washing Machine: Foil wrap Regular laundry soap There will be no need for chemical-laden dryer sheets Directions: In this awesome video tutorial by Andrea Jean Cleaning, on YouTube, describing how to use foil in the laundry you will learn just how and why to use foil in the laundry. All you need to do is make a couple of crinkled foil balls and drop them in the washing...

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Hit the Beach (Part 3)

Proceeding deeper into the 1930’s, we continue to encounter the occasional visit to a savage cannibal island, and more retellings of the tale of Robinson Crusoe, providing various toons with a beachfront setting. (We’ll continue to highlight some of these, most of which we’ve not encountered before, but avoid several marginal ones we’ve visited in past articles, such as the Avery-style travelogues previously covered last year (including The Isle of Pingo Pongo and Lantz’s Bola Mola Land). We also, by the way, will for the most part avoid anything to do with pirates and buried treasure, and some episodes dealing more with fishing on the water than activities on the shore – such films await a separate series altogether.) But...

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Coverstitch machine is a specialized edition to a professional seamstress or tailoring business owner

s. It gives a proficient finishing to the fabrics. You can sew the organized hems on the swimwear, t-shirts, fleeces, and sportswear. It can sew the sleeves, necks, cuffs, and hemlines with a smooth finishing. In regular sewing machines, you can’t sew the swimwear effortlessly. You may suffer from the skipped stitches sometimes. To avoid this, you will need a good coverstitch machine. The coverstitch machines are compatible with more than two needles. It can work with different types of threads. For completing the swimwear projects, coverstitch machines are the suitable choice for you.  You can choose a serger machine, but coverstitch machines are easy to use. These machines are specially made for hemming edges, cuffs, elastic gathering, small areas,...

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