Pecuniarities

Here are some free templates for Patriotic American Flag Miniature Box, Carrier Gift Bags, Treat Bags, Envelopes and Note or Greeting cards. These are great for showing your patriotic spirit as well as sprucing up gifts for friends or family without having to spend money on accessories.
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These are a part of our Freebies series of Printable Gifts and Accessories. These Miniature Gingham Gift Boxes match the Miniature Gingham Carrier Bags we posted a few days ago.
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These small bags with pretty gingham pattern are ideal for small gifts or visible storage. Simply click on the template images below and print with printer setting on “Scale to fit page”. Choose landscape paper orientation for larger items. Assembly may take a few tries if you have never done this sort of project, but [...]

To celebrate our new Money Tree blog theme (if you’re reading this post in a reader, come and check it out!), I thought I would post a facetious poem that Madoline wrote a while back. The quote in our new header comes from the first line of this poem titled ‘Tis Not a Crime to [...]

We would like to announce the opening of Our Fourpence Worth Store, a subsection of our CafePress store Mozartini, which features original artwork by our in-house artist Madoline Hatter on all of our merchandise. Readers who enjoy or feel they have benefited from our articles can help support the continued running of this blog by [...]

How Get the Most Out of Your Dish Sponge

A sponge is a Porifera, a sedentary creature characterized by its numerous holes (or pores). Sponges are water dwelling animals generally found in the sea. The dish sponge, Spongilla familiaris, is a domestic variety of sponge which frequently inhabits the damp places of human dwellings.
The common dish [...]