Family Life: How to resolve wedding disputes with your fiance or fiancee. Pause to gain perspective. If certain disputes regard serious discussion, a sit down talk may be necessary. Before talking over major disagreements with your partner, pause to gain perspective.
Food and Entertaining: How to cook with thyme. Understand the conversion for fresh thyme to dried thyme. If a recipe calls for fresh thyme and you only have dried, or vice versa, don't worry. You can substitute either kind of thyme for the other quite simply. Six fresh thyme sprigs are equivalent to 3/4 teaspoon (3.75 g) of dried thyme.. Read your recipe to determine how to prepare the fresh thyme.

Education and Communications: How to illustrate a children's book. Obtain and study the writer's brief. If you are contracted to illustrate a book, oftentimes writers will provide you with a brief--a list of notes suggesting the main actions in each spread of the book. Study this carefully, and try to remain faithful to the author's intentions. If you are illustrating your own book, you have unlimited creative license!. Tailor images based on reading level. Different age ranges of readers require different kinds of illustrations.

Relationships: How to get along with a significant other's children. Keep the first interactions simple. When first meeting with your significant other's children, you should keep the meetings short and simple. Pick a friendly and manageable setting for the first meeting. This can be a restaurant the children like or even a quick meeting at the park. Avoid long dinners or all day events by keeping it short.

Arm wrestling: An asian girl sitting at a desk describes arm wrestling. The girl introduces an asian boy who sits across from the asian girl.

Roof shingle removal: A guy is sitting on a roof and talking. The guy holds up an orange tool. A silver ladder is against the house.

Pets and Animals: How to stop your cat from waking you at night. Create a comfortable sleeping space for your cat. You should set up multiple sleeping areas for your cat throughout your house or in a room designated for your cat. This will discourage the cat from coming to your room at night for snuggles or attention. Lay out pillows, blankets, and nesting materials so your cat can choose what sleeping space it likes. Consider putting up room-darkening curtains or blackout curtains in your cat's space.

Food and Entertaining: How to make pumpkin bars. Preheat your oven to 350 ° f (175 ° c). Make sure that the baking rack is in the middle of the oven.. Beat the eggs until they turn pale and foamy.  This will allow the other ingredients to mix in more evenly later on. You can use a handheld mixer, a stand mixer, or a food processor fitted with whisks to do this.

Blow-drying hair: A man is standing behind a woman sitting in a chair. He is putting a product into her hair.

Home and Garden: How to get rid of drain flies. Identify the problem areas. Examine all the drains in your home and any area inside or outside the home that has standing water. Any area with multiple drain flies is likely a problem.  Luckily, drain flies do not stray far from the place they have chosen to make their home, so it is rare for a drain fly infestation to spread to all areas of the house. This is especially true if you catch the problem early.

Clipping cat claws: He clips the nails on the back of the cat's legs. He picks up the cat when he is done and sets it on the floor. The cat walks away in an angry manner.

Family Life: How to resolve wedding disputes with your fiance or fiancee. Pause to gain perspective. If certain disputes regard serious discussion, a sit down talk may be necessary. Before talking over major disagreements with your partner, pause to gain perspective.