latest Tips & Recipes october 2020

Here you'll find the latest tips added to the Tip Store & Recipe File during October.

Useful Gift Wrapping

​Wrap gifts in a useful cloth product - a handkerchief, dish cloth, microfiber cleaning cloth, chamois, tea towel, t-shirt or scarf - depending on the size of the gift and the gender of the receiver.
Contributed by Faye Doherty

Plant Now for Christmas

​Prepare your planting pots for potted colour at Christmas. Now is the perfect time to plant bright red and white petunias for a glorious display in your outdoor entertaining area. 
Contributed by Maryanne Cherry

A Simple Wedding Ceremony

​A lot of people desire to get married in a Church but the cost can range in the thousands for a Church wedding, for example the Anglican Cathedral in Brisbane can cost thousands of dollars. A good way option to take care of the legals is to have a micro wedding, through a service such as Simple Weddings. For $199, the legals and registrations are taken care of. https://simpleweddings.com.au/ If a religious blessing is required after the ceremony, some ministers and pastors do offer this option for those who want it for free. Alternatively, a religious ceremony can be conducted afterwards at the reception where all the guests can be invited. 
Contributed by Lori Woodward

Unwrapped Christmas Gifts

​I’d like to add to the tip about not wrapping Christmas presents on today’s newsletter, that when I was young (and then carried in for my children) our presents were always packed into a pillowcase. Easy, cheap and fun to go searching through!
Contributed by Wendy Iacono

Seed Raising Box

​I had a empty Woolworths plastic egg cartoon and I'm using it as a seed raising container. I put a drainage hole in each then put seed raising mix or potting mix, put seeds in, spray water every day out lid on pop in sun hay presto in a couple of weeks have seedlings.
Contributed by Teressa Bennett

Stop Frostbite

​While you are busy digging in the freezer to make way for the Christmas goodies save your fingers from frost bite by slipping on a pair of gardening gloves. I keep a pair of cotton knit gloves by the freezer and slip my mits in before I dive into the chest freezer and the fingers are very appreciative of this little thing. They are also useful when dusting or cleaning the venetian blinds or louvres. 
Contributed by Carolyn Koerntjes