From craft blog Skip to My Lou ( www.skiptomylou.org), these colorful corks would look nice atop a bottle of homemade flavored vinegar. Supplies 1 1/2-inch wood ball knobs Dowel rod that will fit into wooden ball Acrylic paint Acrylic primer Acrylic...

A new luxury online gift boutique has taken on the tactic of green-washing (the practice of marketing products for ecologically friendly qualities that may not exist at all or be offset by ecologically unfriendly qualities) by publishing the backstories of...

Q:We are getting ready to repaint our home office. The walls and ceiling were cracked during the 1989 quake and poorly patched before we moved in. We had the roof redone this summer, and the banging and hammering seriously recracked the plaster. In two areas...

Save water or save trees? Those inclined to do the latter will want to install Brondell's new Swash Ecoseat atop their toilets and reduce toilet paper usage by 75 percent. The Ecoseat has several things going for it that many chichi toilet seats don't. For...

You'll have two chances to latch on to a Timeworks clock before Christmas. The factory doors open at 8 this morning and again next Saturday for "timely" bargains. Most Timeworks clocks are made by hand at the Berkeley factory and sell nationwide in upscale...