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5 Expert Tips: How to Clean Your Woolens
Fall is the time to swap out lighter-weight bedding and welcome back woolens. But before you do, you may want to consider freshening up your wool blankets. How to do it properly? We posed the question to Kellen Tucker, owner of Sharktooth, a Brooklyn store specializing in vintage blankets, textiles, and rugs. For the past decade, she says, she’s been conducting her own lengthy experiments in fabric care. “When clients ask how to wash wool,” she says, “my impulse is to say, ‘Please don’t.’ Wool is an incredibly resilient fiber, but it requires the gentlest handling in water and is often...
Cool Toy Box Ideas
We’ve collected some of the best toy storage ideas from around the web to help spark your imagination. We’ve collected some of the best toy storage ideas from around the web to help spark your imagination. wall toy organizer tempting toys and with toy storage ideas that kids will love then baskets in toy toy organizer wall unit. toy organizer wall unit hanging delightful . Mar 20, 2015 – . or the kids room, clean up with these toy storage tips and ideas straight . bins (not clear ones which will be tempting to dump out) to put toys, . Nov 15,...
Organizing is so overwhelming if you look at everything you want to accomplish as one big task that all has to be done at once
That’s why we recommend starting small and organizing in baby steps. When you break down a great big organizing project into little 10- or 15-minute to-dos, it seems much more manageable. There are some big organizing jobs that can be broken into multi-day, small organizing tasks that are more manageable and less stressful. This time, we’ll focus on how to break down the job of organizing your bedroom into manageable baby steps. Organizing the Bedroom in Baby Steps Instead of walking into your bedroom and thinking that you can never get it organized, don’t look at it as a whole...
How to Tell If an Article of Clothing Will Stand the Test of Time
It happens to the best of us: You wander into Uniqlo or Zara or H&M for a pair of socks, but distracted by the reams of shiny sweatshirts and ribbed turtlenecks, you’re pulled in. Fifteen minutes later, you leave with $100 missing from your wallet and a bag of clothes that probably won’t last a year. But fast fashion isn’t always terrible, as long as you’re being mindful with what you purchase. There are ways to tell if clothes will go the distance—or just fall apart after the first wash or be rendered obsolete by the shifting sands of trends....
Sarah Marquis Is Breaking Up Exploration’s Boys Club
The map of southwest Tasmania is an unbroken expanse of forest green. There are no towns and no roads on this remote section of Australia’s largest island. There’s nothing save for a few sharply creased mountains and an array of lakes and streams. In many pockets of the rainforest, an endemic tree, the slow-growing horizontal scrub, sprouts a noxious tangle of drooping branches that spawn vertical shoots and crosshatching suckers until the woods are all but impenetrable. In 1822, when the Brits ran penal colonies in Tasmania, a group of escaped convicts ate one another while attempting a getaway through...