Pepper Hume
Pepper Hume is a refugee from professional theatre design, now making art dolls and writing in Spring, Texas. She has several short stories under her belt and is working on a novel. Her art dolls reflect her theatrical experience and her observations of human nature. Hobbies? She actually enjoys cooking, sewing, and pulling weeds.
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Living Green with Elegance and StyleThe classic epitome of elegance is the Little Black Dress - neat and trim, with no frills, no faddish details, nothing extreme, just clean and simple. All those qualities describe living green as well. It will feel so good.
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Baskets: Decorative, Functional and GreenPut baskets to work storing and collecting stuff around the house. They're both decorative and functional, as well as being more earth friendly. -
Real Men Make QuicheHome cooking is no longer confined to the ladies in the house. Husbands and fathers bring a refreshing difference in their approach to putting dinner on the table.
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Get the Most Out of Your Cast Iron SkilletsCast iron skillets cook better, clean easier and replace specialty cookware. What's not to love?
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Make a Doll to Comfort a Child in CrisisIf you can sew at all, you can make a cloth doll to comfort a child somewhere who is very frightened and needs a friend. Free patterns are readily available and nobody is going to judge you on the quality of your work. Everybody wins. -
Exchange a Hand Printed Flag with Troops AbroadSchool children make contact with troops abroad by exchanging hand printed flags. Sponsors hold a hand printing session, the hand printed flag and an unprinted one are shipped to US troops. The troops hand print the second flag to send home. -
Secrets of a Lazy HousekeeperBusy people don't all love to do housework. Here are some tips on making a clean house a little easier on the less than house-proud.
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8 Tips to Survive Working Outside in the Heat and HumidityWith a few simple strategies and a glass of ice water, you can actually enjoy working outside this humid hot summer.
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Binge Cooking for Two: One or Two People CAN Eat WellDevote one evening a week to an intensive session of cooking and preparing food and one or two people can eat well the rest of the week with a lot less hassle. Cooking this way is more fun, too.
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For the Love of OrangesThere's a lot more to oranges than just a glass of reconstituted frozen juice in the morning or a whole orange included in a school lunch. -
Hand Print Banners: One Artist's Answer to Global PolarizationArt can be used to give a sense of personal connection between regular people of different cultures, speaking different languages. Hand printing a banner to exchange can provide a sort of hand signal that we are not all that different around the world. -
History of Dolls: What Dolls Mean to UsEven for children, dolls serve a number of functions far beyond that of a casual toy. These surrogate human figures have been helping living humans of all ages get through life for a very long time. -
Art Dolls Are a Whole Different AnimalShould Art dolls be called craft or art? Art dolls come in many different media, sizes and styles. They are not toys, but art objects to be collected and enjoyed by adults. Discover this wonderful art form for yourself. -
A Doll is a DollA simple cloth doll is a good choice to be given to a child or an adult who needs some emotional support. Something soft, uncomplicated and huggable are the qualities most needed in such a doll. -
Art Appreciation for the Guy Who Doesn'tRelax and try looking at art, especially abstract or non-representational art the same way you taste a new dessert. Don't let it intimidate you and don't attack, let it come to you. You might be surprised. -
Comfort Dolls from Our CommunityMembers of the Dollmakers' Internet Community started Comfort Dolls from Our Community to donate soft dolls to comfort children in crisis. They have donated dolls to poverty stricken areas, hospitals and for disaster relief. -
Green Products: Something Old, Something New, Everything GreenOne aspect of living green is buying green. Here are some new green products and some old fashioned favorites. -
Cooking Shortcuts from a Surprising SourceCooking meats and fruits in hard liquors and liqueurs provides fabulous flavor, simply and easily.
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Baby Steps to a Green World - Part 6Traveling green means muzzling the family car and making some of those shorter trips under your own power, on foot or by bicycle. The healthy side benefits double the points for the green team.
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Wheat Germ, My New FriendNever mind that wheat germ is supposed to be good for you. It is a tasty crunchy asset that jazzes up a lot of dishes.
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Peter Pan is a Real Boy in the 2003 MovieDirector P.J. Hogan made the definitive movie of J.M. Barrie's great play Peter Pan. He cast real-age kids and one of the best villains in Hollywood, and did it in the style of the period in which it was written. Gorgeous. -
Baby Steps to a Green World - Part 2Making your life greener doesn't take much effort, just a little shift in thinking can make a big difference. You'll find it soon gets easier to resist wasting money on products you don't need and time doing things that don't need doing.
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Baby Steps to a Green World - Part 5Recycling at all levels is a major element in living green. "In-house" recycling also means getting something for free - free containers, free broth, free odor control of your garbage. Challenge yourself to find ways to reuse everything.
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Baby Steps to a Green World - Part 4Disposable dinnerware and utensils, diapers and kitchen towels, bottles and razors - they all seemed a godsend to modern life. Now we have mountains of plastic trash that will outlive us all. Maybe Great-grandmother was right. -
Baby Steps to a Green World - Part 3Opportunities to get greener arise throughout the day's routine. Take charge of the products you use of in the laundry and shower, replace disposables with reusable items, surf the web for more. Just keep your goals reasonable. Do what you can.
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Baby Steps to a Green WorldLiving green doesn't have to mean spending big green and turning your life upside down. Here are a few simple common sense tips to curb those purple indulgences we really don't need. Not only painless, they might even feel good.
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Ten Tips for Arthritic FingersMedical science can't seem to do much for osteoarthritis sufferers, so here are some things a sufferer with osteoarthritis in her fingers can do for herself. -
Lawn and Garden WeedsIt's ironic that the first fresh green of spring in your lawn and garden has to be the noxious bindweed.