Tin Can Cafts

Ever wonder what to do with those empty coffee cans?  After I found these great ideas  I went out and bought more coffee just to have the cans!  

Instead of a loaf pan........Grease the inside of a clean coffee can and pour your favorite dough inside (half full for yeast breads, almost full for quick breads).  Loaves will pop out flawlessly and slice into perfect rounds.

Make a bag organizer!  Keep plastic grocery bags neat: Cut an X in the plastic lid of a coffee can and use it to remove bags as needed-like tissues!

Car trouble kit-Pain a coffee can with glow-in-the-dark paint (available at crafts stores), then fill with pliers, Band-Aids, fuses, a flashlight-anything you might need in an emergency.  Place in the trunk of your car for easy spotting.

Where's my.....?  Keep a coffee can in your laundry room.  Toss in anything you find in your family's pockets before washing, and you'll never search for lost items again!

More Coffee Can Craft Ideas

Workplace Humor

Are You A Coke Fan?

Are you a Coke fan or a Dr. Pepper fan?  I love them both but tend to lean more towards an ice cold Dr. Pepper.  I found some interesting tips I thought I would share for all you Coca-Cola fans.

1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident. 

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days. 

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coke into the toilet bowl. Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. 

4. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china. 

5. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola. 

6. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion. 

7. To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes. 

8. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan; wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a scrumptious brown gravy. 

9. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield. 

FYI: 

1. Coke Cola (and almost all sodas) contains only water, cheap sugar (corn syrup), phosphoric acid, and artificial ingredients.  The tin can costs more than the ingredients.  The advertising costs more than the tin can.  So does the cost of shipping it to the store, as with the taxes paid by the manufacturer.

2. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It's pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days (except stainless steel).

3. To carry Coca Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly Corrosive materials. 

4. The distributors of Coke Cola have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years! Drink up! 

Redneck Humor

Cake Decorating

My daughter and I took a Wilton Cake Decorating class together.
It was a lot of fun and I learned some good tips.  Like......it's not as hard as it looks!  and it's all in the icing!
Move over Betty Crocker, we have upgraded to powdered meringue and powdered sugar.

A few cake decorating links:
Bake. Decorate. Celebrate
Wilton


A little cake humor:

A Redneck Cake

The Great Escape

Confessions of a Garage Sale Junkie

Excuse me, has this been used? 

One of my favorite things to do on a Saturday is get up early and go garage selling.  I follow  every sign posted on a stick, taped to a mailbox or nailed to a pole until I reach my destination.  I knew it was going to be a good day when I found the signs that said "neighborhood sale".  A garage sale paradise indeed. 

    

I love when I'm the first one there, because I know I won't miss out on the "good stuff". 

Excuse me, how much is the leftover carton of decorated Easter eggs?  Will you take .75  .50 cents for the stale potpourri?  How much for the used tupperware? Does that include the melted lids? What about the beautiful floor rug covered in dog hair?  I know after I take it home, stuff it in the washer and pick off all the fuzz balls, it will be a bargain indeed and my garage sale day will  be complete.     

Do you ever wonder if you can find these kind of bargains at the local Goodwill store?  As for me, I love a good bargain wherever I can find one, I shop at Goodwill from time to time too, but do you ever find yourself bragging about the bargains you found at a garage sale, invite our friends to come along, and even wrap up a new toaster you got for $1.00 and give it to Aunt Betty for her birthday, but would never be caught dead in a Goodwill store?!  

I always get a kick out the noticeably wealthy folks in their Rolls Royce trying to talk them down from $2.00 to $1.00 for a lamp.   

Have you ever done a garage sale drive-by?  Sometime when I'm in a hurry I will drive by a garage sale very slowly, take a good look, turn around and look again to see if they might have any "good stuff" before I get out or....drive away.  I don't want to waste valuable time, I have to get to all the sales before all the "good stuff" is gone!

  

   
Pictures provided by: Funny Hub

A Computer Poem

A computer was something on t.v.
From a science fiction show of note
A window was something you hated to clean
A ram was the cousin of a goat

Meg was the name of my friend
And gig was a job for nights
Now they all mean different things
And that really mega bytes

An application was for employment
A program was a t.v. show
A cursor was profanity
A keyboard was a piano

Memory was something you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3-inch floppy
You hoped nowbody ever found out


Compress was something you did to the garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You'd be in jail for awhile

Log on was adding wood to the fire
Hard drive was a trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a back-up happened to your commode

Cut you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spiders home
And a virus was the flu

I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash
But I've heard it plenty times said!