Wash Clothing the Green Way
- Buy a front loader - they use about half the water and electricity of top-loaders.
- Wash cold and use appropriate cold-wash powder.
- Avoid dry cleaning. Conventionally they use the industrial solvent Perchloroethylene (also called perc, a toxic substance).
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Easy DIY ways to accessorize your home
- Hide a weight in over sized tassels; stitch the tassels on to the corners of your tablecloth.
- Sow buttons on the edge of pillowcases or top sheet in a complementing colour.
- Sow a beaded fringe on a table runner.
- Edge a tablecloth with ribbons.
- Create reversible placemats by sowing informal and formal placemats together.
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Paint Terminology
- "Hue" is the 'blue' in light blue/dark blue.
- "Tone" is the colour's absorption or reflective properties.
- "Value" is the amount of black or white in the colour.
- "Saturation" is the term for pureness of pigmentation and boldness.
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