Don't Buy Shorts!

You can easily stretch the life of a pair of jeans by making them into shorts. When your kids tear the knees or they get too short but the waist still fits cut the legs off and stitch a hem. This is especially nice because you can choose how short you want the shorts to be.


Start by cutting one of the legs off just above the tear (or however short you want them), next, fold them over.


You will want to make sure that the waist lines up, otherwise the legs won't match. Then, cut off the second leg.









Zig-zag stitch the bottom of the short legs. This will keep them from fraying.
Turn them inside out and pin the edges up. Stitch the hems with jean grade thread and viola!

Bread Heels

For some reason, I just can't eat the heels of a loaf of bread. I'd rather just not eat than to have to eat a sandwich made of heels.

I also don't like to waste.

Every time I threw away the heels I cringed. So...finally, after years and years of throwing them out (sometimes I'd save them to feed to ducks) I came up with a way to eat them where you can't tell that they are heels!

Breakfast Caserole dishes!

Basically, I keep a bread bag in my freezer and add the heels as I come across them. When I have six ends stored up I just whip up a breakfast caserole! AND you can't tell that it was made with heels!