cake pan tip

you can double a recipe for a loaf of banana bread. pour enough batter to fill half a 10 inch bundt pan. pour the rest in a muffin tin. bundt is 325 degrees for 65 minutes. muffin is 350 for 20 minutes.

notebook tip

here's how to make your own simple, unlined notebook:

get 20 pages of 8.5 X 11 inch printer paper and fold them in half "hamburger style." open up a regular stapler and line the staple up to the notebook spine. put something underneath the notebook so you don't staple into your desk. you can use an old hardcover book, for example.

press on the stapler slightly so that the staple touches the paper. staple down. use something hard to push the staple down around the pages.

also you can use a colored page as the notebook cover.