I would like to know the outcome of the newspapers mixed with grass clippings ont the lawn though. Well, if you put large sheets, it clogs up the mower pretty quickly, stopping the blade, and you have to flip it on its side and clean out the mess. Now if you want to sit there and crumple each individual sheet of newspaper into a ball and place those balls about 3 feet apart on the lawn, and then tip the mower up and let it down on the ball, it will shred it pretty well, and you do this for the whole lawn, it works. As long as you don't mind having a lawn covered in fine confetti that the mower refused to pickup. As an added bonus, as you lever up and down the mower, happily filling your grass catcher bag with shredded paper and clippings and leaving a white confetti trail behind, you may well find your Significant Other with that classic hand-on-hip pose that us compost wackos have come to know so well. I also tried putting newspaper in a large plastic trash bin, filling it with water and a bit of nitrogen fertilizer. Thats gets pretty smelly quickly. I also tried using an electric drill with a bulb auger to pulverize the soggy newspaper into glop, then use the glop in the compost. Glop dries out, same thing as non-glopped newspaper re composting. So newspaper covered by grass clipping mulch in the border it is.

Thank you so much for replying Minnie. I went back to Michael's and bought the $25 pair of five or six scissors (with a half off coupon of course, I love those coupons). They cut a little better but again, some would get stuck on the metal piece on that first swipe down. Others, again, got caught on the cardstock or paper and ripped/shredded a bit and it looks so unsightly on my projects. I ended up bringing those back too. I think I will try the Martha Stewart or other "rotary cutters" next. Again, they're pricy but with coupons I can get them for about $14 or $15. I think the store might be getting tired of me buying these things and bringing them back. However, tonight I showed the gal on the returns register how they would get caught closing them down or ripping the paper. She could understand why I brought them back so I didn't feel so bad. They all know I'm a gooooood customer at Michael's!! Sal

The outside box should be offset from the interior box so that the insulation can be continuous, except for where the wire goes through, by weaving it on the inside of the outside box and the outside of the inside box. Where you replace the insulation that you've disturbed, duct taping the paper vapor barrier around the edges will do the job.

Darn that Igloochic for spending the entire day on the phone :oP I'm not sure if I ever posted but I'll do it now and save it just in case I'm asked again...from the top of my itty bitty brain (which could be trouble) here goes: First, I purchased 3x as much paper (craft paper on rolls from a craft store or art supply...looks like paper bags without all the unfolding) so for me, that was 15 yards of paper. I tore those into managable sections (which for me, at 5' tall means sections about 4' tall) If you're 8' tall this will be much easier... Start with your base wall color (the other walls in the room...or a mid range color if you're doing four walls..which will take you a milenium and make you psycotic...but just in case) umm where was I? Base color. For my room, the base color was school bus yellow (horribly bright, but on the other walls it's toned down with one layer buff glaze and one layer gold). Purchase an extreme dark of that same tone on the paint ladder (for me, the extreme was almost brown) and an extreme on theopposite light side (for me that was nearly cream). I use a pint of each, which was far more than you need for one wall. Get out three silver tablespoons from your best set of china and use one in each of the paints (or if you are a reasonable person, and have unpacked other dishes you could use old camp stuff..I don't think it will effect the finish). Lay out one section on your antique dining room table...or cheap card table as you wish, and dip each spoon in the respective paint cans...drip one big blob on the paper of the middle, one dark near that and one light. E gads Did I mention to have large paint brushes around? Ok well hopefully you thought of it before you started this crazy idea...anyhoo, hopefully you have a nice 5" purdy brush at hand once you've dribbled those blogs....if so, spread them around, run then into each other leaving an area of paint that is somewhat blended and others that are one or the other color. (If you didn't have the brush at this point your first piece of paper is entirely ruined so go have a drink and start tomorrow) Do this over the entire paper, covering in to it's entirety. You'll make a mess of the table beneeth so hopefully you chose the card table verse the dining room table. Hang this on a wall or lay it on a tarp on the garage floor (where fido hopefully won't be treading) and let it dry for one day. Rinse and repea...wait that's conditioner instructions...umm just repeat, on the other "managable" pieces of paper. Make way way more than you think you could every possibly use. They look a little bit like a kindergardners art project at this point. The paper is rumpled a bit from the wet paint, and you think you've made a major mistake, and that Igloochick was probably drinking when she gave these instructions...you're only half right ;oP OK, for the truely nuts, it's now day two. Look at those ugly pieces of paper you have all over the wall or floor...Now you need to glaze them. I used a gold glaze sold at the big box stores..you could use any glaze color you wish, but what I found with glaze is that it softens the final product, and makes it look richer, so it's necessary...Dry brushed it over the paper where they were hanging, laying and generally were in the way. Glaze every inch with that same big brush, and go have a drink or two...let them dry (hopefully you aren't drinking throughout the entire drying period of one day). Well you blew that weekend...time to blow another Have on hand your typical wall paper tools, including a hand brush on wall paper glue (I used some toxic stuff that looked like elmers glue, and tasted about the same...don't ask why I know that). Yo need a large brush to get rid of big bubbles, and a small roller for the edges, a couple 3" paint brushes for the glue, a squeege for wrinkles and a case (really) of diaper wipes or a bucket filled with soap and hot water. Oh and a large sponge. (It's hard to remember all of this from so far away) Ok now for the fun part. Take those papers which are all dried out now and really don't look so good and tear them up in pieces, with an average size of about a normal piece of paper, but with smaller and larger pieces included. Don't worry about the brown paper edges you'll end up with on some of them, this actually makes it look better when the wall is finished. Keep all tiny scraps as well...you'll need more of these than you might think. Separate the papers from the straight edges of the craft paper, and keep those to use on the edges of the wall, top, bottom and sides. This is how you get a nice clean edge on the wall if you're only doing an accent wall (see instruction one of you are nuts enough to attempt more than one wall). Start on the outside edges, and plan on working on the entire wall at once, from one side to the next because you won't want to be working on pieces that are freshly glued down since they sometimes move on you (they move more if you're drinking when you do this). Pour some of that sticky wallpaper glue in a little cup (I prefer fine china but a small plastic bucket will do as well). Using your handy dandy 3" purdy brush (they really should pay me for these endorsements) brush the back of a piece of paper with a straight edge with glue...be generous, but not rediculous, somewhere between Paris Hilton and Scruge. Note to self...mention that the table they are now working on is destroyed at some point... Take that piece and stick it (paint side up if it isn't obvious...oh and the glue was on the non painted side) and stick it where the sun don't shine...umm I mean on an edge of your chosen wall :o) Line up the edge of the wall with the straight edge of the paper and now do your normal wallpaper hanging routine, squeegieing (that's not a word) out the glue which is a mess, but will dry clear. Use the roller tool as well, for bubbles, and then take your damp sponge or baby wipe and wipe off the excess glue on and around the piece (including your hands and hair). Get as much off the placed piece as possible, but don't scrub. Your paint finish and glaze is fragile and so is your paper. Do not worry if while you are doing this you tear the paper or expose more of the brown edge, you actually want this, and can patch it up later if necessary. Go into your kitchen and find a bottle of wine and drink it now. You have just committed yourself to a project that takes for freaking ever to finish (but is worth the time...it's kind of like giving birth to a halibut). Piece two can be placed where ever your heart desires. I got a little nuts and would throw one in the middle then go to an edge etc. You MUST overlap the pieces to get a good texture on the wall, so don't worry about that. The best bet is to finish your outside wall edges first with those clean edge pieces. I'd do a couple on one edge, then move to the other side of the wall to let the glue harden on that side, then a few there, back, etc. You want to give the glue a few mins to stick. You'll get the feeling for it before long, right about the time you lose feeling in your hands from the effect of the glue and the wine. Days, weeks, months pass....and you're finally done!!! Now let the wall "cure" for one week at least (two is fine, but guard it from small children and goofy husbands who want to touch it). After that week, apply one coat (with a purdy brush please) of clear shellac in the sheen that fits your whim. For my wall I used a gloss because the room is gold :) And I like the soft glow under candlelight. Apply two coats, waiting between coats as directed on the can. (Read the can with the lid on or you'll pass out and wake up with a glossy sheen on your cheek where you landed in a puddle of shellac that you dropped after the fumes got to you). Your wall is now impervious to damage. Small children can throw pudding at it, cats can pee on it, dogs can sniff the cat pe...ummm nevermind...Anyway, after you give the shellac a week to cure as well, it's a great wall. You can scrub it with soap and water and won't loose any of the wall :) Patching the wall is easy, so just save some of the scraps just in case (which I needed after construction). I also did the same technique on the fixtures on that wall (switch plate and plug face) so that you don't really see them sticking out of the wall like a sore thumb. You will now love me, but during the process of making your wall, you cursed my name many many times. Just remember that when I got this hair brained idea my instructions were in the side note of a magazine and said "drop paint on craft paper in three colors and blend, glue to wall with wallpaper glue, protect with shellac". Thank god I read between the lines about the drinking...I'd have never gotten through it without a good pinot blanc :oP