There I was one day looking at this empty thread spool, one of the laarge size, and suddenly I saw --- a pencil holder. Use a bit of that flexible picture mounting stuff and stick a spool where you need a few of pens or pencils - I have one in front of my monitor. Those slim BICs fit right n - I stash my reading glasses in the center hole.
Gosh, this is really saving the environment.
Good idea. I donate all of mine to a day care in our area. The children make all kinds of art projects out of them. A friend of mine enrolled her daughter there not too long ago, and she told me they had asked her for empty spools. (she is the one with the upholstery shop.) She passed that info along to me. I think between the two of us, we have them set for the next 10 years. LOL I also toss pretty or unique fabric scraps in a box and give those to the art teacher at the elementary school. They especially like faux fur and satin. :) She does several projects through the year that fabric scraps can be added to. Like when the children make masks. She LOVES it when I take in a box of scraps. :)
Sharon
I donate empty cones and spools to a craft group at a retirement park here in FL. When I'm in SC I donate them to my church pre-school for sandbox toys. Now that my DS is marrying into an "instant family" I will probably see if these children want to do crafts with them. Barbara in FL & SC
I use them for my garden, to place around the vegetable "starts" to keep the cut worms away. Then I cut them away. The cardboard ones are great for this.
On 2005-03-26 snipped-for-privacy@chilitech.net said: >Newsgroups: alt.sewing >I use them for my garden, to place around the vegetable "starts" to >keep the cut worms away. Then I cut them away. The cardboard ones >are great for this. Would pieces cut from toilet paper and paper towel cores (tubes) work for this?
I haven't yet had any cut worm problem here: little lizards eat them, pull them from the shallow straw mulch I put down.
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I use the toilet paper cardboard rolls to go around my tomato plants and just leave them there to rot away later on. They keep the cut worms away from the plant stem. Seems like they would help with your lizard problems/ Barbara in FL & SC
Doesn't sound like the lizards are a problem. I would welcome them. They are beneficial and cute to watch.
Would pieces cut from toilet paper and paper towel cores (tubes) work for this?
Yes, when I can't get DH to save the paper rolls. LOL I bought some batting the other day, rolled on a 4 foot roll. I folded the batting to fit in my closet and guess where the roll's going???? I don't have any lizards (alligator lizards are great for bugs!) here so I have to use the next best thing--human intervention!
Raye Ahn Mar 28, 4:48 am show options
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Yeah, those little critters! I have to tell you a story, though. I got this great idea to make slug traps out of cottage cheese containers filled with beer. Cut square holes near the rim of the container, bury the container into the ground to just below the "windows", pour the beer into the container to just a little below the "windows" and pop the lid on. Keeps the rain out and the beer from drying up. Well, marvelous idea, I thought. At least they wouldn't be like the plates I put in the yard because the beer would dry out during the day that way.
Well, I went out there the morning after my handiwork and saw that all of the containers were not only unearthed but the lids were off and the containers were scattered everywhere. Looking closely at a footprint, I noticed it was a skunk that got into it. It put a new meaning to the phrase "Drunk as a skunk". My garden club got a kick out of it.
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