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great-ideas

Keep your tea cup or mug warm and cozy with a crocheted sweater

If you are one of our many crochet-crazy Homies, you could make on of these for your tea cups or mugs, and hopefully it’ll help to keep your beverages warm on these chilly winter days.

Amplify your tunes wirelessly with the power of SCIENCE

You’re bored and you want tunes, but you don’t want to crank the speakers in the living room/you don’t have space to use your laptop/you’re afraid you’ll spill on it. You’re stuck listening to headphones which can be inconvenient or doing without entirely, right? Nah.

Make bookmarks for your marathon DVD watchings

From the Homie who gave us the great idea to use vertical blinds to display letters and photos, comes this bookmarking hack for your DVDs.

Hang this pretty earring organizer on your wall

Homie StellarP says she snagged this great idea for earring organization from Pinterest. And it looks fabulous! Just take chains, hang them on the wall, then hang your drop and dangle earrings from them. It makes for some easy, pretty access, storage, and organization.

Use this phone wallpaper hack to make sure your phone comes back if it gets lost

Today’s great idea came from my best friend, Erik, on how to keep my best electronic friend from disappearing forever.

Have a post-holidays “un-stock the pantry” party

Start a new post-holiday tradition — an un-stock the pantry party. Invite everyone to come over with their leftover ingredients and try to come up with new recipes.

Use your aprons to hide ugly old kitchen phone jacks

This photo might just look like Homie StellarP‘s adorable vintage apron collection, and it is! But it’s also a super clever way of covering up an unsightly, and unused, phone jack in the kitchen.