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I am thankful for friends who love to craft! One of my friends and I made some spring birds in a jar last year. So when this fall rolled around, she wanted to make fall birds in a jar so of course I said, "Ok!" Through trial and error this is what we came up with. Start with a glass jar with a lid. I used a salsa jar that I removed the sticker from and washed up. Then add fake leaves to the bottom. You can decide how many birds to put in it. I chose 3. Since our front trees are always gifting us twigs and limbs, that's where I got mine for the birds to sit on. Measure the twig to make sure it will fit horizontally inside of the jar. Cut shorter if needed. Then glue the birds on with hot glue. On the ends add twine and cut to length how long you want them from lid to where you want it to be sitting. Find some colorful fabric to glue to the top of the lid. This is the tricky part. Glue the top of the twine to the inside of the lid with hot glue. You will ne

With the Holidays coming, people hosting the all important Thanksgiving Dinner (like I am) are thinking about deep cleaning the kitchen. One of the hardest thing to clean is the nasty grease that cakes on just about everything around the stove and counter areas. Soap does nothing but smear it. A few years ago I came upon posts about cleaning grease with Baking Soda. I thought nothing else is working so I gave it a shot. Within seconds I was amazed! It didn't scratch anything and brought up the grease so easily. I started cleaning everything in the kitchen with it! I even got my husband to try it and he was skeptical at first but hooked within minutes like I was. So how do you make your kitchen sparkly clean for your holiday festivities? Let's look at my Kitchen Aid. Gross right?! All you have to do is put some Baking Soda in a small bowl. Get a wet cloth and dab it in the Baking Soda. Rub that on the grease spots and ta-da! Grease is GONE! Then wipe off the