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Natural Skin Whitening Treatments
Everyone wants a beautiful and healthy skin that will glow all day long. Yet, most of the times the skin betrays us, leaving everyone to see our age as well as the hardships we had to face along the time. The skin tells everyone if there is any disease hidden inside or if the body is just not functioning right. At the same the skin is the first line of defense against external factors, thus bruises, rashes or sunburns appear more or less often on it. This is why it is highly important to know how we can take care of our skin so that it remains fresh, clean and healthy all the time.
There are many chemical products claiming to successfully manage to keep the skin in good condition regardless of the external or internal factors which may influence the way the skin looks. While this may be true, these products are either too expensive or have some hidden side effects which may further damage the layers of skin. The only products which are capable of offering great treatment and protection for the skin are the products made home from natural products.
Here are the top 10 ways to lighten skin naturally courtesy of top10homeremedies
1. Yogurt
Yogurt,
a by-product of milk, has many nutrients that are good for the skin. It
also contains lactic acid that has bleaching properties. The following
remedies are suitable for all skin types.- Gently rub plain yogurt onto your skin. Leave it on for a few minutes and then wash it off with lukewarm water. Do this once daily for several weeks to notice a significant change in your complexion.
- Alternatively, mix one tablespoon of fresh yogurt with one-half tablespoon of honey. Apply the mixture on your face and neck. Leave it on for 10 to 15 minutes and then wash it off with water. Do this daily to improve your skin tone and complexion.
- You can also add a little lemon juice and some oatmeal to yogurt to make a thick paste, and apply it as a face mask. This remedy will also help keep your skin supple and moisturized.
Garden Plants Companion Infographic
BEANS:
All bean enrich the soil with nitrogen fixed from the air. In general, they are good company for carrots, brassicas, beets, and cucumbers. Ideal for heavy nitrogen users like corn and grain plants. French Haricot beans, sweet corn and melons are a good combo. Keep beans away from the alliums.
CHIVES:
Improves growth and flavour of carrots and tomatoes. Chives may drive away Japanese beetles and carrot rust fly. Planted among apple trees it may help prevent scab. A tea of chives may be used on cucumbers to avoid downy mildew.
NASTURTIUMS:
Plant as a barrier around tomatoes, radishes, cabbage, cucumbers, and under fruit trees. Deters woolly aphids, whiteflies, squash bug, cucumber beetles and other pests of the cucurbit family. Great trap crop for aphids (in particular the black aphids) which it does attract, especially the yellow flowering varieties. Likes poor soil with little moisture and no fertiliser. It has been the practice of some fruit growers that planting nasturtiums every year in the root zone of fruit trees allow the trees to take up the pungent odour of the plants and repel bugs. It has no taste effect on the fruit. A nice variety to grow is Alaska which has beautiful green and white variegated leaves. The leaves, flowers and seeds are all edible and wonderful in salads!
PARSLEY:
Plant among and sprinkle on tomatoes, and asparagus. Use as a tea to ward off asparagus beetles. Attracts hoverflies. Let some go to seed to attract the tiny parasitic wasps. Parsley increases the fragrance of roses when planted around their base.
BASIL:
Plant with tomatoes to improve growth and flavour. Basil can be helpful in repelling thrips. It is said to repel flies and mosquitoes. Do not plant near rue.
Source:
http://www.pssurvival.com
15 Sites to Sell or Buy Handmade Crafts Online
What websites and curators for selling or buying handmade crafts do you know from your local or global? Feel free to share those small entrepreneurs you know that are not recognise and still untapped to sell their unique crafts specially made in not-mass-production worth a custom item to have. Artisan bloggers are welcome and share your handmade niche page.
Handmade Journal Book by jenniferRbaulch |
"EBay generalises its marketplace first while Etsy follows with a niche; the niche births the micro-niches. If you can micro-niche it, the better!" ~jenniferRbaulch
Etsy planted the "handmade" marketplace on the Internet globally as most crafters would know then it branches and bear more similar e-commerce websites for selling and buying handmade crafts from around the world. The handmade fever also reignites local artists' entrepreneurs and personal bloggers who sell via their own website selling checkouts. Handmade embraces unique personal touches and priceless tags from its costly endeavour creating on something worth selling and it does not mean cheap to sell or buy either unless it's a giveaway. The treasure hunting for handmade crafts and handmade gifts these days are an endless marketplace to choose from.
For all creative artists, artisans or crafters; here are some great lists of handmade websites you can showcase your handmade products or items you have made or current projects. Our world became small through the Internet browsing all the DIY or Do It Yours stuff on the planet. Making the difference to make this world sustainable to live in by recreating and reusing stuff that is just lying around us or aiming to save the land-filled mountains of garbage out there by simply creating handmade stuff or things we thought we're not able to. The list goes on while I'm curating this :)
The files below contain each website's authentic "about" information from their websites:
1. The mother of handmade sites for the dot com generation crafters and buyers is called Etsy! "Etsy is the marketplace "we make together". ~ By http://au.etsy.com or www. etsy.com
2. "Madeit.com.au is a handmade online buying and selling the destination, which showcases Australia's most creative, undiscovered art, design & craft talent. Madeit.com.au is different to other online designer destinations as it only promotes local Australian talent." ~ By http://www.madeit.com.au/
3. "Hand-Made.com.au is a venue for Australian sellers of handmade items, artists, craft makers and suppliers to promote and sell their goods to buyers from Australia and around the globe. It is where people will go to for great Australian hand-made items." https://www.hand-made.com.au/
4. "Georgie Love launched in March 2006 and was Australia's first website store dedicated to promoting and selling handmade delights from independent and emerging artists from Australia! Georgie Love is filled with a mix of edgy, eclectic, funky and beautiful pieces that are either one-off originals or a part of a very small run. Most things can't be found in stores anywhere else!"
~ By http://www.georgielove.com/home.php
5. "iCraftGifts.com is strictly for Handmade Art, Crafts and Fashion creations." ~ By http://icraftgifts.com/
6. Jonathan says, "eBay's success is largely attributed to it's attractiveness to buyers as a place to find almost anything, at bargain prices. Popular for its bidding style, we saw that many beautiful handmade items that would have taken hours and hours to create, sold for next to nothing. How sad! We wanted to create a marketplace where Artisans could list their quality, handmade products for a fixed price, rather than an auction style, and sell them for a price that made all the time and love that went into creating that item, worth it." ~ By http://www.zibbet.com/
7. "My DaWanda is your personal home-base within our marketplace." ~ By http://en.dawanda.com
8. "Bonanza is an eBay built to help buyers make serendipitous discoveries. Our browsing experience guides buyers through our inventory of more than 4 million items to find the product that's perfect for their tastes."~ By http://www.bonanza.com/
9. "Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, weavers and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools, project and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration. The content here is all user- driven; we as a community make the site what it is. Ravelry is a great place for you to keep notes about your projects, see what other people are making, find the perfect pattern and connect with people who love to play with yarn from all over the world in our forums." ~ By http://www.ravelry.com/
10. "Having a sustainable sensibility from the start, Tess and Maja would carefully save all of the off-cuts and cut-outs from the baskets, hoping to reuse them in some way. Combining their love for recycling and fashion, the off-cuts were twisted, knotted and looped together to make a range of brightly coloured earrings to sell alongside the baskets. The earrings quickly began to outsell the Polli baskets, so Tess and Maja began using other materials and designed a larger collection of jewellery." ~ By http://polli.com.au/
11. "Hand Made in Country is a network of artisans based in the South Burnett, Toowoomba and Southern Downs/Granite Belt regions. HMIC offers business training, development and sales opportunities to these artisans. The HMIC website is their home and is an easy way for Hand Made lovers to access these very clever people." ~ By http://www.handmadeincountry.com.au
12. "If you can make it by hand, we want to teach it! Their philosophy is to run hands-on, project-based workshops, so that you can come along, learn something new and go home with a finished product or a new skill." http://ministryofhandmade.com.au/
13. Own your own web shop "eCRATER is both a free web store builder and an online marketplace. If you are a seller, you can create your own free online store in minutes. If you are a buyer, you can browse and search among millions of products. All eligible products are submitted to Google Shopping. You can also easily import your eBay products." ~ By http://www.ecrater.com.au/
14. "MISI is the UK's online craft marketplace. Set up by a keen crafter, Web developer and a mum, MISI is bringing together the UK's craft community and giving them a place to sell what they make." ~ By http://www.misi.co.uk/
15. I like this handmade natural product niche soaps. It is made from Pawpaw or Papaya products with natural ingredients although you have to buy from their stockists in Australia. "Tom was determined to take her discovery to the world after his wife passed away and with the help of friends formed McArthur Natural Products. Today, everyone can benefit from Tom’s hard work in bringing our unique pawpaw products to the market, and passing on Lynda’s legacy to others." ~ By http://mcarthurnaturalproducts.com/
Queentulip Handmade Upcycled Tags
How possible to create your own design than buying only embellishments. Here's some idea for you to take on board your scrapbook journey journal. Shall we call it a new name smash tags from smash book or scrapbook original terms?
These are my handmade from recycled materials at home and upcycled bought materials from shops overtime. Trying to archive photos so I can post them when I can. These are few ideas you can play with your materials you can find at the comfort of your home. Embellishments are selectively designed and thought by me when I feel scrappy. I personally crocheted my embellishment yarns.
I painted my recycled brown toilet tissue paper roll by using water colouring that matches the colours I wanted to achieve.
Materials:
Tissue paper roll
Postcard fabric
Recycled or bought buttons
Recycled papers
Design Printed papers
Yarns
Glitters
Cardboard paper
Water Colours
Scissors
Glue
Puncher
Metallic Butterfly Embellishment or Accessories by Jenni B (acid-free) purchased from Spotlight Australia
The finished product can be used for tag holder or gift card holders.
These are my handmade from recycled materials at home and upcycled bought materials from shops overtime. Trying to archive photos so I can post them when I can. These are few ideas you can play with your materials you can find at the comfort of your home. Embellishments are selectively designed and thought by me when I feel scrappy. I personally crocheted my embellishment yarns.
I painted my recycled brown toilet tissue paper roll by using water colouring that matches the colours I wanted to achieve.
Materials:
Tissue paper roll
Postcard fabric
Recycled or bought buttons
Recycled papers
Design Printed papers
Yarns
Glitters
Cardboard paper
Water Colours
Scissors
Glue
Puncher
Metallic Butterfly Embellishment or Accessories by Jenni B (acid-free) purchased from Spotlight Australia
The finished product can be used for tag holder or gift card holders.
BIND OF ALL THE TAGS OUT OF TISSUE PAPER ROLL SIZE |
BACK TO BACK TAG |
CLOSEST TO ITS ORIGINAL COLOURS FROM NON-VIRTUAL POINT :-) |
A HANDFUL OF BACK TO BACK TAGS |
SOME BEADS ON YARN TAG :-) |
Beware; a Journalist Writer Could Twist Your Own Real Story
16 February 2013, Saturday - my memoir released.
“Sometimes a journalist is no different with a gossiper when you became a victim of it.”
Glad to let you know, I am not a journalist, but I could write a real story without all the jumbo jargon twisting the story than a real life script story to share with you regarding my dear father’s life ruined by others including a gullible journalist. To cut story shorter; I wanted to share how a reporter could ruin your real life story in the old media “newspaper”, and this story started when this writer named Charlie Pinto painted in my memory even his name until these days. I guess the incident might be somewhere written in one of my diaries, but I am prompted to write something about this today dated above as I recalled the whole vivid story.
With the advantage of the Internet today, a newspaper could have their publication online, and the readers still have the ability to comment on your article. Back in those days when Internet still not known neither alone computers are unreachable with many local towns in the Philippines. Charlie Pinto and any other journalist writers out there could not be reached if ever you wanted to comment back on what they have written since you only read the short story they wrote on Tabloids.
If any chance he is reading this article; I would be glad to get a comment back from him why did he write my father’s story twisted just to caught attention readers maybe? I don’t know. Mr Charlie Pinto twisted his article writer as “A Messenger of God, an Illegal Recruiter!” written originally in Tagalog “Alagad ng Dios, Illegal Recruiter Pala!” Well, very catchy phrase and if you have not known my father, you would believe the twisted story straight away especially if you are not a sophisticated reader who readily believe all the news in the deceiving news defending the truth or do they care for someone’s damn story about you!
If any chance he is reading this article; I would be glad to get a comment back from him why did he write my father’s story twisted just to caught attention readers maybe? I don’t know. Mr Charlie Pinto twisted his article writer as “A Messenger of God, an Illegal Recruiter!” written originally in Tagalog “Alagad ng Dios, Illegal Recruiter Pala!” Well, very catchy phrase and if you have not known my father, you would believe the twisted story straight away especially if you are not a sophisticated reader who readily believe all the news in the deceiving news defending the truth or do they care for someone’s damn story about you!
I was blessed how my father personally reacted on his tabloid paper that day. It reflects what our Lord Yeshua (Jesus) had done on the cross when he said “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do”, and it’s the same reaction my father had done that very moment I was empathetically by his side and observing him the whole time. My dad is/was right to forgive whoever was behind the negated story against my family, but it left a scar on me that a journalist writer could not be trusted until proven like my dad’s case.
To: Mr Charlie Pinto, if you have the chance to read my article you are wholeheartedly forgiven by God’s amazing grace and I can use this true story of mine how we can forgive others even if you were one of the instruments to ruin my family life by reading your tabloid article in history. I do understand that if you have chosen both parties to write a decent story, many would have not read your catching phrase. The truth is my father was not illegal recruiter it was their agent instead by name of Jonalyn Carnaje from Bicol but all the allegations fall on my poor father that he suffers until now!
To: Mrs. Jonalyn Carnaje or Jojo, come out and pay your allegations instead of using my dad to pay your burden for what. Here's an original photo of you, I kept it for years now since 1992 for the record of my current blog. May God help, forgive and prosper your life and your family. We only hope and pray you never repeat the same mistakes over and over again to our kababayans in the Philippines making money out of fraud recruitment system.
Let us forgive seventy times seven as our Lord Yeshua model us when He was on earth. Let those who do not forgive you deal it with the hands of an Almighty Yahweh God alone.
How to Replace Mobile Phone Rubber Suction
How to Replace Mobile Phone Rubber Suction
A DIY idea to keep your mobile phone firm onto its cover without falling. The experience of using rubber suction on mobile phone cover could easily slide off when the device gets warm or hot. The images below showing you how to apply the "picture hanging strips" in replacement of the rubbish rubber suction.
If your picture hanging strips could hold your picture framed glass, so can your device. It works for me. I bought the mobile phone cover originally via Ebay Australia seller.
Share us your DIY remedy on the comment section.
A DIY idea to keep your mobile phone firm onto its cover without falling. The experience of using rubber suction on mobile phone cover could easily slide off when the device gets warm or hot. The images below showing you how to apply the "picture hanging strips" in replacement of the rubbish rubber suction.
If your picture hanging strips could hold your picture framed glass, so can your device. It works for me. I bought the mobile phone cover originally via Ebay Australia seller.
Share us your DIY remedy on the comment section.
Bought this from BIG W or any shop that sells such tool. |
You can see how the rubbish rubber suction easily comes off the mobile phone cover. The sticker from the strips are strongly gripping onto the mobile phone cover. |
DIY IDEA HOW TO REPLACE MOBILE PHONE SUCTION |
How to Decorate Home without Sewing Curtains
How to decorate your home with adding some new improving touches. A great spot to begin is with your window. At the same time, it might be a bit overwhelming to your funding to buy window curtains for a whole room especially for larger windows.
There are numerous window treatment alternatives accessible that you can do yourself, and you never even need to get a needle or string a sewing machine. With a little creative ability and some basic needs, any bit of fabric can without much of a stretch and rapidly changed into a window decoration.
Find a beautiful fabric that suits your home décor and particular style. Pick something that has completed edges, for example, a vintage cloth or printed sheet. At that point choose a grommet, cut, snare, or rope to hang it with, and you will have a flawlessly straightforward and modest window décor treatment that reflects your individual style and innovativeness.
Grommets are great reinforcements on fabrics. You can slip over divider hooks and create new window treatment. A sledge and a grommet instrument work in any event also for setting only a couple of grommets. The grommet keeps the hooks from tearing through the gap. You can string rayon cording through grommets and attach behind the grommets to make circles to dangle from a wooden dowel or hang over the window.
There are beautiful fabric hooks and cuts that you may hunt from someone else treasures at countryside swap meet markets or vintage shops. Home Crafts stores sell cut on rings to hang drapes. Online stores are at the tip of your finger if you are also looking for other style range and let it delivered to your door.
You can even utilise catches on blinds. String fine wire through the gaps and areas of the strip and primarily wind the wire on the rear to make straightforward lace circles to hang the drapery.
Let your innovations be your aide, and you can create window decorations that reflect your identity and interior designing. Let your creative juices flow and not restrict you.
Autumn April Harvest Squash at Home Gardening
Autumn harvest in April at home in Ballarat. Unfortunately, the heat wave summer did not help to robust the self-production of my organic gardening without using greenhouse. First photo are balls of Zucchini with its baby pecked by wildlife birds flying and visiting over our garden. Second and third photos did not pan out to become its potential size, which is Queensland pumpkin or squash.
Queentulip Zucchini Fruits |
Queentulip Squash (Queensland type) |
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