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Beautiful Natural Pine Cone Ornaments

Pinecone Ornaments on Table

These natural pine cone ornaments are not only beautiful; they’re easy to make and inexpensive as well.  All it takes are some pinecones (gathered for free in our case), spray paint, ribbon, and a glue gun.  I chose to make them using metallic gold paint and gold ribbon, but they could be made in whatever color suited the decorating situation.

Simply spray the pine cones with the paint, let dry, and attach the ribbon with the glue gun so they can be hung from the tree.  I used prefab ribbon hangers – they were inexpensive and it was worth it to me not to deal with creating [...]

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Homemade Sun Dried Tomatoes (oven dried really)

Roma Tomatoes Dried

This is the time of year when things are coming in from the garden so fast that it’s hard to keep up – I’m putting the corn, beans, squash, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, and raspberries into the pantry or freezer in various forms as fast as I can.  So, sun-drying tomatoes is a nice method of preservation because it requires little work, they’re a lot less expensive homemade than from the store, and there are a couple of recipes (like Sun Dried Tomato Dip) that I like to have them on hand for.

The only problem is, we live in Ohio, and sometimes there’s  very little sun - so I make [...]

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