Kelly Dobbs Henthorne, Abshier House

Chalk paint can be used to paint almost anything — walls, kitchen cabinets, metal, wood, and even fabric — but the most common use is to give new life to old furniture or to make newer pieces look old. The great thing about chalk paint is that there isn't a huge learning curve or a lot of prep work. You can just dive right in.

Before winter arrives, the most important thing you need to do for yourself and your family is to ensure that your furnace is operational, safe, and as energy-efficient as you can make it. When that first cold day hits, you don't want to turn on the furnace only to discover that it isn't working. (A lot can happen during the warmer months to affect your furnace.

Eventbrite gives you a great deal of control over how your event page looks. If you fill out the basic information, include a logo, and do little to no customization, your page looks like this: Source: Eventbrite.com But you'd probably like it to have some more pizzazz. To change any of the basic information, you can click the Edit button and make any desired changes.

An event isn't an event without attendees. For public events, you can use the promotional tools available through Eventbrite. But, how do you invite specific people to your private event? Suppose you are organizing a family reunion. You've done the hard work, set the date and time, booked the location, decided on food, and made a guest list.

You've found an event you want to buy tickets for promoted on Eventbrite, an online event planning service, or you've been invited to attend by the event's organizer. So how do you go about buying tickets? For many Eventbrite events, you can purchase tickets on the Eventbrite website rather than waiting to pay at the door.

You might want to sell tickets to an event through Eventbrite, which offers event-planning services for events both large and small, for-profit and nonprofit, and public and private. Here's how you can sell tickets to your event.Log in to Eventbrite and click Create Event.Source: Eventbrite.com In this example, you want to raise money for your son’s Little League team uniforms by planning an exhibition game with last year’s league champions.

During the winter, you want to make sure that your doors and windows are airtight even if you enjoy the occasional cooling breeze during warmer months. Otherwise, you furnace will just be blowing money out through those cracks.You have quite a few low-cost options for sealing up those leaks: Check your window panes and storm windows for cracks and replace any that are damaged.

With Eventbrite, you can create any kind of event, from a family reunion to a large festival with ticket sales and thousands of attendees. To begin, go to the Eventbrite website. Then follow these steps to create a family reunion:Click the green Get Started button near the bottom of the page.Source: Eventbrite.

You can use DocuSign, an efficient cloud-based digital-signing software package, to create your own document templates. Suppose that you are coordinating a craft fair and need to have each vendor sign off on the rules and regulations. You can create a document template and have DocuSign send a signature form to all the vendors for you.