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    Thanksgiving Mantle Decor
    If you have a fireplace, you know that most often than not, the fireplace will be considered the focal point of the room. One of the easiest ways to bring a holiday fell to your space is by decorating the mantle. Of course, most of us do not have time

    Clean your tools for winter
    How to give your muddy tools a thorough clean before storing them By Val Bourne Published: 10:10AM GMT 24 Nov 2009 How to clean and store tools: wipe wooden handles with a damp cloth and dry them before oiling them liberally. Photo: RNLI Ideally, garden

    Wildlife: it's good news for bees moths and butterflies
    Garden wildlife has bloomed in 2009, although pity the poor hedgehog By BBC Gardeners' World survey Published: 10:52AM GMT 24 Nov 2009 Wildlife in the garden: sightings of hedgehogs, toads and frogs are down. Photo: CLARA MOLDEN Gardening wildlife has

    Wildlife: it's good news for bees, moths and butterflies
    Garden wildlife has bloomed in 2009, although pity the poor hedgehog Wildlife in the garden: sightings of hedgehogs, toads and frogs are down. Photo: CLARA MOLDEN Gardening wildlife has bloomed in 2009, but while bee, moth and butterfly populations are

    On the beach
    Winter comes to the summerhouse Fishing boats on the beach Back to the summerhouse to hunker it down for winter. No snow as yet. In fact, they are having their first frost-free November since 1873, when records began. But it cannot last long, so we are

    How to Plant a Rain Garden
    The cultivation of a rain garden can have an incredibly positive influence on your local environment. Usually, polluted rain water will run freely into surrounding lakes or waterways. The addition of a rain garden arrests this process and rain water,

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    Simple Thanksgiving Candles
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    19 Ways to Add Value to Your Home
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    Top Herbs for Cooking
    Here's how to grow and prepare 12 delicious herbs. Jessica Abels Slide 1 of 13 Basil Basil is a great addition to any sunny bed or container. Most varieties grow about 18 inches tall, but some reach 3 feet. Add lively color to your landscape by choosing

    Try Veggies in Containers
    Enjoy tasty, homegrown vegetables on your doorstep, deck, patio, balcony, or garden with these herb and vegetable garden ideas for containers.

    Free Kitchen Garden Plans
    Grow a healthy, beautiful vegetable garden with these free plans. Slide 1 of 13 Patio Vegetable Garden Tuck these two garden beds along your deck or patio where they'll be easy to harvest. Garden size: 7 by 7 feet. Related Links Even if you don't have a

    Prevent Extra Holiday Pounds
    Holiday food and busy schedules during holiday times make it too easy to gain weight. Follow these 10 suggestions to stick to your meal plan without feeling deprived. Slide 1 of 11 Relax and Enjoy the Festivities Focus on the activities instead of the

    Know Portion Sizes
    Find out how everyday objects can ease the guessing game of serving sizes and portion control. Slide 1 of 27 Figuring Out Portion Sizes What you eat is important, especially when it comes to making positive food choices, but how much you eat is the real

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    Our Best Birthday Cards
    Dress up a simple birthday card with these adorable and easy handmade tips. Slide 1 of 21 Clever Birthday Card Eyelets can secure movable elements on a card. A starry eyelet acts as a spinner on this clever birthday card. Top card stock with patterned

    How to hang a door
    New doors can have a dramatic impact on the interior of your home, and they don't have to cost the earth. Follow our step-by-step guide to hanging a door.

    How to grow: sorbus or mountain ash
    Mountain ash are festooned with berries in autumn, and many grow well in small gardens By Val Bourne Published: 5:06PM GMT 23 Nov 2009 Previous of Images Next Sorbus cashmiriana (from Kashmir) has white berries on long pink stalks and green pinnate

    Stevie Parle's perfect puntarelle salad
    The Dock Kitchen cook's favourite taste of Roman autumn In Rome at this time of year, every restaurant serves puntarelle. You can walk into a trattoria and there will be a plate of the delicious crunchy bitter salad on every table. The markets are full

    Hope for the whitebeam
    Malcolm Smith on attempts to save an endangered species Malcolm Smith Published: 12:01AM GMT 08 Feb 2003 Of the 60 or so species of tree native to Britain, 12 are recorded as endangered in the World List of Threatened Trees published by the

    Bedroom Inspirations in Living Color
    The master bedroom is truly a space where you are free to express your own sense of color, whether it might be neutral, cottage, floral, or richly Old World. There is no one color that is 'best' for your bedroom. One person will long for a calm space of

    There's a hydrangea for all types of garden
    How to grow hydrangeas even in dry conditions and alkaline soil By Bunny Guinness Published: 12:21PM GMT 23 Nov 2009 Hydrangeas: if your soil is acid, less than pH5.5 or so, then the flowers will be blue. Photo: Despite gardening in one of the driest

    Much to sea in aquascapes
    Aquariums have long inhabited the uneasy terrain between obsessive avocation and kitschy interior decoration. Sure, they're fine for the introverted adolescent with a bent for the natural sciences, and they're a standard design element in many

    Question of the Week - How Much are Blu-ray Disc Players?
    Blu-ray and HD-DVD. However, only the Blu-ray format now remains. To find out the answers to questions about Blu-ray check out my latest 'Question of the Week Series' on Blu-ray Basics. This week's question: Also, be sure to check out my complete . (0)

    Possible DirecTV Sale Looming
    According to a recent interview, DirecTV Chairman, John Malone has indicated that either AT&T or Verizon might in a position to purchase DirecTV. However, DirecTV has just announced a merger with Liberty Media. So, how will all this play out? Check

    Universal to Offer Blu-ray/DVD Combo Packs
    Taking notice of Disney's new practice of including both Blu-ray Disc and DVD copies of its recent high-profile home video releases as combo packs, Universal has also decided to take a similar approach with the re-release of several catalog titles. The

    Your Water Heater. Your Friend.
    water heater! Definitely a most convenient appliance. Hot water virtually on-demand is a luxury we've come to take for granted. But like anything else, it takes energy to run. In the tutorial I'll explain how to easily save water, energy and money in

    Stripe show
    Rosita and Ottavio Missoni open the doors of their colourful home outside Milan Missoni might be world famous for its richly colourful, multi-striped clothing and homeware, but its founders, Rosita and husband Ottavio, prefer to keep out of the

    Making the love collection
    Sometimes being a pack rat can pay off - literally. About 15 years ago, Lynn Goldfinger-Abram realized that her mint-condition Barbie dolls, dating back to the 1960s, were quite valuable. She retrieved them from her grandmother's house and started