A handful of my favorite distractions from the month of November.
There is now a name for people like me, PANK: Professional Aunt No Kids. Man, they have me pegged.
A holiday favorite: the diary of The Twelve Days of Christmas.
How coffee changed the world.
And for tea drinkers, this is some disturbing bidness.
Interesting: My #1 source of traffic this month has been from people google searching “how to remove wax.” I suspect it has something to do with all that Thanksgivikah candle light. Well folks, here is your answer.
The cutest kids coats in existence. I mean seriously, what does the fox say?
Nothing like a natural disaster to makes a girl cruise youtube for survivalist videos. Here is how to a can of food without a can opener.
A tip for keeping Christmas trees looking fresh.
This chair. This chair!
Finally, a parody songbook for Jewish cat ladies.
Y’all, can you believe it’s December already?
Came for the candle wax. Stayed because sparkles!
Glad you stuck around 🙂
/sigh…I opened up your blog with a big mug of hot tea in front of me. Wonder what it would take to grown my own tea plant.
I know, right? I had no idea that most tea is not washed before drying. Thought it must have been an exaggeration so I googled around a bit more — seems to be an accepted fact. Bizzare. What’s worse — the recommended “safe” brands aren’t that good. A couple are just plain gross. If you find a good brand, let me know!
Here is my tip for removing wax off other stuff like fabric and carpet. You know– when it gets spilled from the coffee table during a festive night. :D. This really works well. Use brown paper (from lunch bags or kraft paper) and lay it over the wax spots and iron it without steam. It lifts the wax and the wax (because it’s oily) sticks to the paper. Depending on the amount of wax there, you may have to do this a few times before it’s all lifted off your carpet/fabric. Trick I learned from an English lady I once knew. This also works for oil stains (not sure about car oil, but for cooking oil and mineral oil).