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Is canning one of the new skills you'd like to learn this year? If so, then take a look at this handy visual guide to canning jars from Marisa at Food In Jars...

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Cocoon Fires Hanging Fireplace

• $2,990
• All Modern

If you're a renter on a budget, this Daily Find is probably not for you (alas!), but serious home builders or renovators might want to consider this alternative to a traditional indoor fireplace. These sleek hanging fireplace systems run on denatured ethanol, a biofuel derived from plants like corn, wheat, barley and sugarcane which has little or no emissions, and they burn up to 6 hours depending on the heat setting.

Taking down the holiday decorations is always a little bittersweet. I love the excess of the season's decor and when it is all gone, my home always tends to feel emptier than it was before they went up. But with the freshness of a clean sweep comes new possibilities and lots of opportunities to recycle the decorations into something useful.

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To get you inspired about your home in 2012, we're republishing this post from last January!

Girlfriend, we know. It's been a year of ups and downs for you and your home. It was love at first sight, all charm and potential and good intentions. You were going to treat him right, he was going to keep you warm, and together you were going to create a love for the ages. You had activities planned, like painting, decluttering, an afternoon spent regrouting the bathroom (romance indeed). You had plans to live smarter by buying less, reusing more. You had hopes of weekly dinner parties and reduced energy bills. Then, things just started to fall apart…

Do you have resolution fatigue? Yes, you promise to eat better. Yes, you promise to go to the gym more. How about turning your focus away from your own wants and towards other people's needs? The Resolutions for Good campaign is designating 2012 the year of doing good for others. Here's how it works:

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W102 Brass Table Lamp by David Chipperfield

• $550
• Merchant No. 4

I adore the striking simplicity of this brass LED lamp. Designed by British architect David Chipperfield, the intention behind the lamp's design "was to create a simple form with no visible joins, but without compromising its function." Features a dimmable warm white LED bulb with optical lenses and a glare protecting diffuser.

1-4 W LED light source, 3,000 K Color Temperature, 93 CRI

While it was fun to receive a pile of holiday packages from faraway family, I now have enough packing peanuts to fill a closet. And not the eco-friendly kind, either. Feeling perplexed, I turned to the Web, where I found several clever ways to reuse the petroleum-based polystyrene peanuts, which can take -- gasp! -- hundreds of years to break down.

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