I did not know that about cinnamon. Maybe I need to toss a few cinnamon sticks in with with my stash 🙂

Making cinnamon/applesauce ornaments is very easy and straight forward. It’s simply equal parts of cinnamon and applesauce mixed together, shaped and allowed to dry on wax paper. You can add other spices or even glue if desired. I’ll have to make some to keep with my stash!!

I think (although it sounds like it would smell heavenly) I’d keep out the applesauce, just to make sure the sugar content didn’t entice anything.

Hi Alison. Just coming out of the lurking woods. (Hmm that sounds a bit creepy. Sorry!)

I think I have carpet/wool beetles. I am not sure how they managed to come and visit me. How do you deal with them? I do vacuum and change the bag frequently. Proetein fiber items are now in baggies although from time to time I run out of ziplocks. I can’t find anything on the net outside of contacting a pest control firm. Sadly it’s not in the budget. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Karin

I wish I had a good answer other than bag everything in as thick a plastic as you can, and anything that looks bad, put it in the freezer, or outside to freeze if your climate cooperates. Alternate between warmth and freezing so the eggs will think it’s spring and hatch but then freeze to death before they can do any damage.

Me, I’m waiting for my house to need tenting for termites like the neighbors have had to do; I figure, that’ll get’em. I have no desire to do mothballs. They work on the insects’ nerves, and I don’t have any neurons to spare.

Thanks for the idea! I have a bunch that we made for Christmas a few years back, but I’m ready to make some more with the kiddos…. great info!

Ooooh! I’ve got about three big jars of Costco cinnamon that I bought for an art project the kids and I never did. Maybe I need to find it and put them up in the sewing room.

How do you ever get to play with your yarn if it’s all entombed in plastic?

The yarns in the big blue Rubbermaids in the closet have a tendency to be neglected forevermore. The ones in the ziploc bags set in big baskets, being easier to see and easier to reach, tend to get rotated through on a regular basis.

Ants don’t like cinnamon either. You can put down a line of cinnamon and they won’t cross it, a strange sight.

Huh. Curious. I did not know that. I knew that you don’t have to use insecticides on ants, just plain old soapy water: they breathe through their skeletons, and soap clogs up the pores and they suffocate.