Coffee Fix

Coffee makers can be a challenge after they’ve been in use for a year or more. Ours is no different…I made a small pot a while back and found the filter had fallen over which allowed the coffee grounds into the pot. I poured the coffee into a pitcher, cleaned out the pot, added a new filter and then poured it back thru the clean filter.This took a bit of time and the coffee had cooled off a bit. So I came up with this little fix-it idea to reduce the time and keep my coffee from getting too cold…

I used a large creamer container, sharp scissors,a hot glue gun and for the holes, I used a wood burner fitted with a bolt ( a nail and hammer could also be used)…

As you can see in the picture, I cut the container at the bend, trimmed down the piece with the cap to accommodate the coffee filter, added a line of hot glue around the bottom and made holes in the cap (I used a bit of sandpaper to get the glue to stay, an emery board would work as well).

Done…now I’m ready for the next time grounds have gotten into my coffee!

                         

I have the hardest time making equal sized burgers and sausage patties. I actually bought a burger maker and found it didn't work well nor did it get clean in the dishwasher. So I looked around my supplies and saw that the margarine containers were just about the right size (with burger shrinkage) and had lots of em’ (enough to experiment with).

As you can see from the pictures, it was very simple and because the pieces separate, they clean up well in the dishwasher (they hold up a good long time too, I’ve used these over and over).

I just cut the container wall down to the height I wanted for my burgers, cut a hole in the bottom big enough to push the burger thru while maintaining the strength of the container. I cut the lid the size of the inside of the container at the bottom. (I used a piece of paper to measure the size before cutting the lid).

Place the lid piece in the bottom of the container, add the burger, pat it down, then turn it over and push the bottom out and thru, wa-la…nice, even burgers… (I used a container that held crab meat (Mmm) for the sausage patties but the small margarine containers are about the same size) Thanks for reading…ReUseItNut…

I started out wanting to make something from plastic bottles and it turned into a cute toy for the Grandkids... ~How I did it~

1) Cut the bottoms of both bottles (one a bit larger than the other) at an angle to fit together and give it a dropped back end, added a cone shape from a thin piece of cardboard, hot glued together. Covered the entire body with the fabric by cutting a piece a bit larger than the width of the bigger bottle and tapered down to the tip, folded to make a trimmed edge and hot glued together.

2) Cut the wings from the lid part of the egg cartons, painted then glued to the top of the body by gathering up a piece of the material and gluing the rib in between. Then cut out two egg cups, trimmed the edges, cut out a pie shape out of one of the cups, painted each a different color, then glued the two cups together. Cut out 2 small half moon shapes from white paper, with a marker, drew horseshoe shapes along the flat side of the shape, glued to the face and hot glued the face to the front.

3)Next, I cut two pieces of hanger longer than the width of the body, covered with the fabric, bent into leg forms and hot glued to the bottom of the body. Took a strip of the egg carton lid and painted a stripe to match and placed it in the middle for some more color, a tiny strip for the tail end...done… Brought to you by ReUseItNut