http://NewsOnFeeds.com/section/Home%20&%20Garden%20News/57/1 Home & Garden News from NewsOnFeed.com en 60 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/images/small.nof.gif The list reads like frugal tips for today's economy: Use cloth diapers that can be washed and then dried on a clothesline; find repair parts for the family car at the auto wrecking yard; buy appliances secondhand. Borrow a set of bunk beds from a relative... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390413/Handmade%20ornaments%20prove%20priceless SFGate: Home & Garden Don't get me wrong: I'm not here to completely renounce holiday commercialism. Sometimes store-bought is just the ticket. But when I was little, holidays smelled like hot glue and acrylic paint. So every year, I convert the dining room table into a workbench... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390414/Do-it-yourself%20craft%20projects%20as%20holiday%20gifts SFGate: Home & Garden TODAY Holidays From the Garden Julia Lojo teaches how to make garlands and holiday centerpieces using materials from your garden. 10 a.m. Magic Gardens Nursery, 729 Heinz Ave., Berkeley. (510) 644-2351. www.magicgardens.com. WEDNESDAY Holiday Special Wreath... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390415/Craft%20classes SFGate: Home & Garden You can dress your front door, dining room wall or centerpiece with a wreath of dried leaves. The idea comes from "A Greener Christmas," by Sheherazade Goldsmith (DK Publishing, 2008, 352 pages, $25). If you're from the East, don't start up over the lack of... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390416/How%20to%20make%20a%20wreath%20from%20Bay%20Area%20fall%20foliage SFGate: Home & Garden Alas! The political campaign season came to an end right before the cold weather set in. Just when you could have used some of that free hot air generated by the candidates to warm your house, it stopped flowing. Politicians! They huff and they puff, but the... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390417/Solar%20air%20heater%20inexpensive%20and%20easy%20to%20build SFGate: Home & Garden Oblivious to nearby golfers and the jets gliding toward Oakland International Airport, migratory monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have made Monarch Bay Golf Club in San Leandro their winter home since the 1970s. They cluster by the thousands in two... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390418/Migrating%20monarchs%20have%20a%20home%20in%20East%20Bay SFGate: Home & Garden Reality: The Bay Area's coyotes are here to stay and more will come to join them. In the past 20 years, wily coyotes have made homes for themselves in nearly every American city. Coyotes are resident in Central Park on the island of Manhattan. Coyotes cross... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390419/Learning%20to%20coexist%20with%20coyotes SFGate: Home & Garden The thought of a toasty fire in the hearth kindles images of romantic nesting and lower heating bills. But don't strike a match until you've made sure your fireplace and chimney are clean and in good working order. Thirty-six percent of home-heating fires... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390420/Get%20your%20fireplace%20ready%20for%20winter SFGate: Home & Garden Q:My new landlord wants me to start paying my rent in cash. Besides being uncomfortable about possibly not getting credit for the payment, I don't want to carry that much cash on me. I have lived here for six years and have never had a problem paying my rent.... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390421/You%20usually%20don't%20have%20to%20pay%20rent%20in%20cash SFGate: Home & Garden Q:We live in Southern California and have a very large red ant bed near our house. My wife wants me to try to eliminate the bed, but I can't see that they are causing any harm. When I work around the area, they are not aggressive and even avoid my ... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390422/Harvester%20ants%20would%20rather%20leave%20you%20alone SFGate: Home & Garden Eureka, the vacuum cleaner maker, has been running a contest in which pet owners share their cleaning tips, at www.acleanpethome.com. Here are a few gems from the winners on living clean with "messy, smelly, dirty, hairy best friends," as the Eureka folks... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390423/5%20tips%20for%20cleaning%20up%20after%20your%20furry%20friends SFGate: Home & Garden 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... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390424/Timeworks%20clocks%20on%20sale%20in%20Berkeley SFGate: Home & Garden 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... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390425/Ecoseat%20seat%20reduces%20toilet%20paper%20use SFGate: Home & Garden 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... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390426/How%20to%20repair%20cracked%20plaster%20on%20walls,%20ceiling SFGate: Home & Garden 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... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0600 http://NewsOnFeeds.com/article/8390427/Elegant%20Roots%20Web%20site%20offers%20green%20backstory SFGate: Home & Garden