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Blue salvia Salvia farinacea offers stately pale blue blooms on a 3-foot-tall plant of gray-green foliage. It’s a perennial in Zones 7-10, but is usually grown as an annual. Coral Nymph sage Salvia coccinea ‘Coral Nymph’ offers bicolor, salmon-and-white tubular flowers on 2-foot stems. Perennial in Zones 8 and warmer; grown as an annual in cooler climates. Golden Delicious pineapple sage Salvia elegans ‘Golden Delicious’ shows off bright golden-yellow foliage that smells of pineapples when rubbed....

Get started by cutting lengths of pine lattice, decorating with evergreen, then attaching boughs to the wall with hook-and-loop tape tabs. Our project was designed to fit in a smaller space, but you can adjust the dimensions as desired—just make sure to leave space at the bottom for presents. What You Need 1⅛-inch x 8-foot pine latticeMeasuring tapePencilMiter box and sawHot-glue gun and glue sticksAssorted holiday greeneryAssorted small ornaments and pineconesAdhesive hook-and-loop tape tabsCardboardScissorsLevel...

2 tablespoon butter 1 ½ cup fine-ground cornmeal (or regular cornmeal) 1 teaspoon kosher salt ¾ teaspoon baking soda 2 cup buttermilk (1 1/2 cups buttermilk if using regular cornmeal) 2 lightly beaten eggs ** If you don’t have fine-ground cornmeal, use regular cornmeal and reduce the amount of buttermilk to 1 1/2 cups. *** If you don’t have time to let bread dry overnight, allow the freshly baked cornbread to cool completely....

To ripen, place fruit in a small, clean paper bag. (A plastic bag is not recommended because it doesn’t allow fruit to breathe and can produce mold on the fruit from trapped moisture.) Loosely close the bag and store it at room temperature. Feel free to mix varieties of fruit in the same bag. To speed up the ripening process, place a ripe apple or ripe banana in the bag with underripe fruit....

Artoid Mode Happy Halloween Pumpkins Doormat, $28 Joyin Halloween Boo Doormat, $32 Artoid Mode Trick or Treat Bat Decorative Doormat, $25 Calloway Mills Scary Web Doormat, $17 OccDesign I Put a Spell on You Halloween Doormat, $26 Joyin Happy Halloween Pumpkin Doormat, $30 Artoid Mode Ghost Boo Decorative Halloween Doormat, $33 Artoid Mode Black Cat Welcome Halloween Doormat, $19 Evergreen Flag Autumn Patterned Pumpkins Doormat, $30 Your Halloween doormat should feature classic holiday colors with spooky characters like ghosts, pumpkins, witches, spider webs, and more....

Butter-Pecan Shortbread: Prepare as above, except substitute brown sugar for the granulated sugar. After cutting in butter, stir in 2 tablespoons finely chopped pecans. Sprinkle mixture with 1/2 teaspoon vanilla before kneading. Nutrition Facts per wedge: 102 cal., 7 g total fat (4 g sat. fat), 16 mg chol., 63 mg sodium, 9 g carbo., 0 g fiber, 1 g pro.Daily Values: 5% vit. A, 0% vit. C, 1% calcium, 3% ironExchanges: 1/2 Starch, 1 1/2 Fat...

A single lever kitchen faucet with the handle in front, on top, or to the side of the spout adjusts water flow and regulates temperature. The lever activates one of three types of operating systems: ceramic disk, cartridges, or ball. Models might be installed as a stand-alone spout (sometimes equipped with a pull-down or pullout sprayer) or on a mounting plate. Lever placement might impact how well a single-handle faucet works, notes Consumer Reports (consumerreports....

2 3 ounce packages cream cheese, softened ¼ cup butter, softened 1 teaspoon vanilla ¼ teaspoon ground allspice 1 ¼ cup powdered sugar

½ cup powdered sugar 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder ⅛ teaspoon ground cocoa-chile blend or dash ground chipotle chile pepper (optional) 1 teaspoon butter, softened 2 teaspoon milk

1 cup powdered sugar milk