Spring Cleaning – Dining Room

Wax and Polish Your Furniture: Several times a year, it’s a good idea to wax or polish all of your wooden furniture. Done too often, and you’ll cause too much waxy build-up. Too infrequently and you’re depriving your furniture from a layer of protection. Oils and waxes of all kinds work well on your wooden furniture. Which one you choose is up to you. The most important thing to remember is to do a thorough buffing job so that you won’t leave a sticky, filmy residue.

Uphpolstery: If you have upholstered dining room chairs ,thoroughly vacuum and at the least, use a store-bought upholstery cleaner. To really clean those seats, steam clean.

Credenzas, Sideboards and Hutches: If you have any kind of storage unit in your dining room, spring cleaning is a great time to go though the cupboards and drawers and decide if you really use all of the items that you’re storing here. Over the years, It’s easy to shove things into these storage units that don’t actually belong in the dining room. Do a clear-out of all of the drawers and re-organize so that you’re only storing what you actually use.

Halloween Placemats

Materials Needed:

  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Yellow
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Black
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Purple
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Green
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – White
  • Creatology™ Foam Sheet – Orange
  • Scissors
  • Ruler
  • Pencil
  • Craft Smart® All Purpose Glue
Instructions:
  1. Cut an orange piece of foam into 1” strips lengthwise. Set aside.
  2. Cut the black foam sheet into 1” strips width-wise (top to bottom). Lay the vertical strips side by side in front of you. Weave an orange strip horizontally through at the top of the black strips, and glue them all together. Allow to dry.
  3. Repeat step 2 until all the orange strips are in place. Apply glue only at the beginning and end of each strip. The final strip gets glued along the entire outside edge.
  4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 with the other colors of foam sheets. Be sure to always cut the orange sheets lengthwise, and the contrast color vertically.
  5. Trace 4 of each bone onto the white foam sheets, and cut out.
  6. Glue bone pieces onto placemats as seen in photo. They will go where the fork, knife and spoon go.