Sew.Craft.Create. Kissing Thaumatrope A few years ago, I thought that it would be so fun to make Joe a kissing thaumatrope for Valentine's Day. Like so many of my BRILLIANT ideas, I promptly forgot all about it. Until recently, when I saw this thaumatrope-on-a-stick on Made by Joel, and it reminded me that I had to try it. Even though they're not done, I'm showing you my work in progress now, just in case you want to use this idea to make your very own thaumatrope valentines. Are you wondering what I am talking about? On one side it looks like this: On the other side it looks like this: When you spin the stick, it looks like this: Movie magic! I'm making some for my three little Valentinos, too. If you do make your own, please send me a picture! Materials: Paper, cardboard, double-stick tape or glue, round chopstick or kebab stick, photo prints or drawings of kissers in profile.
Whatimade.com Crafts by Amanda | easy craft tutorials for kids and adults Ten minute no-sew recycled t-shirt bag! Tutorial time! I got a gig teaching a recycled t-shirt project at the library a few months ago, with a request for a recycled tee bag – the only bags I’d made from tees in the past had required sturdy sewing, and I didn’t want hand-sewing to be the only thing holding the bottom closed in a class version of the bags, so I started brainstorming about some kind of hand-sewing-friendly or no-sew bag idea…. and here’s what I came up with! The simplest version of these bags is great for smaller tees, or the more light-weight kind of girl-tees – just turn the bottom of the shirt into a drawstring and tie it closed! As you can see, even with a not huge tee, this will still leave a significant hole in the bottom of your bag, but for purposes like grocery shopping, this size hole shouldn’t really matter… But to make smaller holes, just make more than one of them! And now for the actual tutorial – for this one, with the step-by-step, I will be making the bottom with 3 holes. My finished Sonic bag!
MADE: TUTORIALS by Dana on July 2, 2008 Click an image below for step-by-step instructions and easy sewing projects. Don’t worry…we won’t leave you hanging! NOTE: If you’re looking for PATTERNS, they’re in the SHOP Leave a Comment Previous post: Advertise Next post: for ME SUBSCRIBE to MADE via EMAIL Enter your email address:Delivered by FeedBurner Purchase my new BOOKS! | Copyright © 2014 MADE * All Rights Reserved | Web Hosting By RFE Hosting WordPress Admin Tricks + Treats: Graphic Soaps by Sarah Rhodes - A Beautiful Mess - StumbleUpon Hi, It's Sarah from Team Rhodes Weddings! I am going to share a simple soap DIY with you this morning. Enjoy! Shopping list: - clear glycerin (found at craft stores) or you can recycle clear soaps of your own.- essential oils for lovely smelling soaps- a small milk carton- tracing paper, book pages, transparency paper, any kind of paper, or pretty fabric squares. Have your artwork to put in soaps ready before you start! Over low heat, melt your glycerin in a pot on your stove. Add your oils! Once all the glycerin is melted, pour it into your milk carton. Put the whole carton in your freezer for quick setting! Once you're done with all of them, and they're all solid, then tear off the carton around the bars. Thanks, Sarah!
Newspaper flowers I'm still on the newspaper kick. I picked out the parts with colored ads and made these flowers with instructions from the book Paper Flowers by Michael LaFosse. Found it at the library. These are made with two pages of newspaper glued together to make a thicker sheet. There they are, adorning the newspaper basket. DIY Maven Croq Zine – The Blog
Uniquely Scandinavian: A Crocheted Stool Makeover » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: DIY, crochet, stools, how-to I've never crocheted before in my life, but after seeing this charming stool I've got a serious desire to learn how! Kristin from Sweden shared this stool makeover on IKEA Hackers, but I'm wondering what else you could spruce up with a little crochet action... Any ideas? While you're thinking about what else you could cover in yarn, let's see what we'll need to create this whimsical stool. Materials: A stool (this one uses the Marius Stool from IKEA)Cotton YarnFoamFreeform pattern from Ravelry Kristin explains she first crocheted long tubes to cover the stool legs and then created the freeform birds. So, have you thought of what else you'd give the crochet treatment to? [via IKEA Hackers] Tagged : crochet, stools, How-To, Ikea hack, scandinavian, yarn, Inspiration, Craft, DIY
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