Roll The Tape, Timmy!

Here are a few EXCITING new uses for tape!!!

1) Electrical tape comes in a variety of colors these days, so when your are having guests over use your collection to tag drink cups to avoid awkward mix ups!

2) When you tighten your belt does the tail hang low? If it does, try some double sided "fashion" tape to keep it in place.

3) Protect your plaster!  When hanging your next family photo or piece of artwork place a piece of scotch tape on the spot where the nail will be driven.  It will prevent cracking and chipping.

4) Did you eat your Triscuits over your keyboard and now it is full of crumbs and stuff?  Try sliding a long piece of transparent tape between the rows of keys.  The sticky side will pick up dust and food particles in a jiff!

5) Does your luggage look like everyone else's at the airport?  Help make baggage claim easier by adding a unique strip of colorful or patterned duct tape to your bags to help them stick out!

6) Next time you have spare screws left over from assembling your latest IKEA find, try storing them between layers of clear packing tape.  You can even label your packets to make finding them in the future easier!

Bonus Random Tip:  Connie was trying to pour the glitter from our glitter station back into its respective containers.  It took her a week to organize the particles into color groups and she didn't want to mess up her work.  The office was fresh out of funnels that day so Wendell (always willing to be Connie's mindless slave) quickly folded over and rolled a piece of aluminum foil from our foil station into a gleaming, silver funnel!  Connie was thrilled and the next three months of glitter sorting was avoided.  Thank you Wendell!  We know what a snit Connie gets in when she is assigned glitter sorting duties.

Candle Confidential

Here are a few great ideas for your old candles!

1.) Protect your shipping labels or recipe cards by rubbing a candle over them!

2.) Lubricate a sticky drawer or window latch! Just rub it on!

3.) Light a candle while chopping onions to eliminate the tears!

4.) Fix a stubborn zipper!  Just rub it up and down!

5.)  Start a fire! (Thanks, Kathleen!  But what she means is you can use a candle to melt the wax onto your logs to encourage the to burn when kindling is sparse.)

6.)  Use an old candle to help steady another candle which doesn't quite fit in the holder.  Melt some wax from Candle A into the holder of Candle B and before it hardens push Candle B into Candle A's wax!  Get that?  Reread it a few times, it will sink in.

Outside The Chocolate Box Valentine Ideas

Anyone can buy a box of chocolates and a dozen roses for their love on Valentine's Day but that is just down right BORING and so left brained!  Here are Celebrate's inventive suggestions that are guaranteed to be sure-fire hits!

1.)  Everyone sends Christmas cards and often they lose their pizzazz in the flood of holiday well wishes.  Why don't you and your mate send Valentine's Day cards to friends and family!  Lose your inhibitions and have a quirky photo shoot a la Julie Child and her husband Paul;  the two of you in a bathtub full of suds being silly, holding cute speech bubble signs, acting as cupid and target, etc!   Then print them off like you would holiday cards and mail them out!  Your friends and family will be delighted by the unexpected, cute greeting!

2) Plan a feast!  Invite all your coupled friends over for a Valentine's Day dinner!  Prepare a "heart warming" menu and hand out over-sized paper hearts for everyone to pin on.  Run with the theme.  Heart themed everything!  (If you really want to get into it, you could encourage everyone to come dressed as the King and Queen of Hearts.)  If you are single and bitter, you could host the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre Dinner!  Hand out "broken" paper hearts to all guests,  have a bitch-off, and order greasy takeout!  (You could encourage your guests to dress as gangsters.)

3)  Why buy your love stale, mass produced, chocolate confections?  Instead, take a candy/chocolate/truffle making class together!  This could be your gift to your sweetie (pun intended)!  These classes can be found at candy stores or continuing education centers.  Google it!  As an invitation, you can give him/her an empty, heart-shaped box with a note saying something like: "Let's fill this together with handmade chocolate and the memories of making it with you." 

Look at these two lovebirds! 

Come back next week as Celebrate brings you unique and "out of the chocolate box" engagement ideas for all of you contemplating popping the question! 

::Sticky Situation::

Hello to our 95 visitors!

We were both were away on holiday but are back stronger than ever!

The best tip of the day is if you are going through some old pictures and find a bunch that are stuck together don't throw them away or try to seperate them by hand. Believe it or not you are going to soak them in water! Here's how! Only use this idea on snap shots not anything important like grandma's wedding photos. You will need room temperature distilled water which you can get at the grocery store. Soak them with the image side up for 20 to 30 minutes. Remove them and gently pull apart with your fingers. Set each picture image side up on a stack of paper towels and weight the corners down so they won't curl. Viola! Memories saved! If the picture is stuck to a frame soak both the frame and image photo side up. Give a try on some photos that you might not have the strongest attachment to to get the hang of the technique.