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Kitchen drawers

I had my kitchen remade 4yrs ago all my under bench cupboards became drawers, excluding the 2 corner cupboards that have  bi-fold doors with that cavernous bottom back corner.  I left those as bi-fold doors because I’d lose too much space with a lazy susan or those weirdly shaped corner drawers which you also lose …

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Make up remover pads.

If you’re only going away for a night or two instead of taking the whole bottle of eye make up remover or even your facial make up remover try soaking a couple of make up remover pads (one for each night) in the liquid and pop in a labelled zip loc bag for easy travel …

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Shallots

We call shallots the long thin skinny ones and the long thin skinny ones with the small onion like bulb on the bottom a spring onion.  One of those foods that has more than one name world wide. I’m talking about what I call shallots this time. Shallots are something I grow from seedlings, I …

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Make up brushes clean up

It’s summer, hot and humid and by the time I’ve put my moisturiser (mine has a sunscreen)  on my face has broken out in a sweat again. One day we just might get air conditioning in the house. My make up foundation is a mineral powder put on with a kabuki brush. With my nice …

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String holder

I don’t usually buy the tiny tubs of yoghurt they are more expensive per gram than the larger 1kg. A few years ago these little ones must have been on special and I thought they would also make nice little storage containers, at the time I just didn’t know what for. Not long ago I …

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