Tutorials for Recycling Books - StumbleUpon
We rode bikes around our neighborhood this weekend and stopped at all the garage sales we found along the way. I love doing this because it's like exercise and shopping in one! Plus, my bike basket is perfect for holding whatever treasures I find. On this particular trip I was noticing a lot of old books for sale.
Recycled Sweater Mittens
Have you ever thought about making mittens from old wool sweaters? Follow these simple instructions and you'll have a pair of cozy woollen mittens in no time. What you need Felted wool sweater Tape measure or yard stick Pair of sharp scissors Marker pen Blunt end needle Yarn or thread for sewing pieces together Pins or safety pins
Voice Acoustics: an introduction to the science of speech and singing
Speech science has a long history. Voice acoustics are an active area of research in many labs, including our own, which studies singing acoustics, as well as the speaking voice. This document gives an introduction and overview. This is followed by a more detailed account, sometimes using experimental data to illustrate the main points.
DIY: Blueprint-Inspired Holiday Project
Our own Angelica completed a DIY project over the holidays that's positively brilliant. She writes: After a series of failed baking adventures I realized it was time for me to transfer my love for YumSugar and food magazines to CasaSugar and design magazines. In the spirit of the holidays I picked a Light Bright project from this month's Blueprint magazine. I must admit, I'm a much better painter and craftswoman than I am a baker so the project was definitely a confidence booster.
Sock Toppers! {picture me screaming like I just won on The Price Is Right, that's how excited I am!!}
Aren't these cute! I was sitting in my sewing room, about to concoct me up some new pretty socks, when I spied some elastic sitting next to my machine.....then, like angels singing, it came to me! SOCK TOPPERS with an elastic! Then I won't have to decide what color lace to do with which sock?
Improving General Rhythmic Coordination
These exercises involve a couple of items that some of you might not own, so apologies for that. If you can afford it, I suggest you go out and get them because they're useful tools, not only for creativity, but as this article describes, the development of your general rhythmic coordination. The things you'll need are some sort of keyboard that can be used to play the sound samples in drum creation software, and the software itself. On the keyboard side of things, I like the full sized 88 weighted key types, but for just playing drums, you don't need 7 octaves; a 49 key job would do fine. There is however one very important thing you'll need your drum software to do, and that is trigger different samples when you hit keys hard or soft. Some of them merely increase the volume as you play harder, but this isn't enough.
Homemade Holidays: Crock Pot Candles
Growing up in my house, we always made our own holiday gifts. We were pretty poor, and I suppose it was our only option. But it was never presented to me like that (I didn’t even know what ‘poor’ was, really, and I had a stupendously fabulous childhood full of ‘thing finding’ and ‘government cheese’.
Getting Back at the Dryer....
We all know that our dryers eat socks. Not a big deal with easily replaceable white socks that my husband wears, but when they're my cute little polka-dotted ones, it makes me mad!! I have a huge collection of cute socks that I've been hoping to find the mates for. But after three years, I've given up.
