Articles for tag: Borax

Karla News

How to Make Toy Slime in Your Kitchen

Most children love slime, the ooey gooey and stretchy toy slime you will often find in the toy machines in most grocery and department stores. While kids love this sticky stuff you may soon ask yourself why you paid for it in the first place. This is a very good question because it is easy ...

Karla News

Soldering Broken Jewelry

Repairs to broken jewelry when done at the jewelry store are expensive, but you can repair your own jewelry with a soldering gun. Don’t toss out a piece of broken jewelry or leave it unused in the bottom of a drawer when you can use a soldering gun to fix it. Soldering will make the ...

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Making a Pinterest Inspired Borax Crystal Snowflake

On Pinterest, there are tons of holiday craft ideas to choose from, but the Borax Crystal Snowflake craft idea originally posted on the Martha Stewart website looked easy to make while being easy on the wallet so I attempted to make it. Here’s my attempt at making this interesting project. The instruction provided on the ...

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Deodorize Urine Odor with Borax

Urine odors can be very hard to eliminate from surfaces. Pet accidents can be hard to get the urine smells eliminated from surfaces. Bed wetting accidents can leave a mattress smelling like urine. If you have small children with diapers you know that the diaper pail can get gamely over use. Urine odors can be ...

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Product Comparison: Purex Vs Tide Laundry Detergents

When you have a big family, that washing machine seems to be running day and night. Between the warm water, the laundry soap, and all the special stain removing additives, keeping a family in clean clothes can get pretty expensive. My Mother was a Tide fan from way back. We lived on a farm and ...

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Grandpa’s Salmon Eggs Fish Bait Recipe

Have you ever fished with a cured salmon eggs fish bait before? Do you know how effective they can be at catching the larger game fish like muskellunge, largemouth bass, salmon and lake trout? Well, now here is an easy recipe you can use to make your own cured salmon eggs so that you will ...

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How to Remove Creeping Ivy Plants

Ivy. It is a beautiful plant that you often seen growing along fences and up the walls of stone houses. But sometimes, this plant can become a pest like weed, taking over the area it was intended to fill. If left growing, it can overtake and choke out any plants in its path. So how ...

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Homemade Lava Lamps and Other Easy Science Fun for Kids

Although my older kids would disagree, I am finding the youngest of the family often gets gypped when it comes to fun projects. While I remember spending time around the kitchen table making flubber and rigging up rocket balloons on dining room chairs, I often forget that she was not even born when we played ...

24 Uses for Borax

24 uses for borax? Okay, you’ve read the articles about germs and bacteria in your home, and how the chemicals in cleaning sprays can create chemical pollution, that just adds to the problem. You’ve probably also heard that borax is a good cleaning agent for your home, but you’re wondering how in world do you ...

Karla News

How to Make Homemade Slime

Kids love to make things while they are at home because their imaginations tend to get the best of them when they are bored. Contrary to children’s beliefs, they do actually like to learn about different things. The biggest hurdles’ kids give themselves with school work is they think school is boring and they don’t ...