Reusing Pillowcases: DIY Ideas
Posted by ScrapHacker.com on tisdag, maj 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment Big stashes of bed linen are impractical, yet often we hang onto old sets for the love of a great print or a great memory…This post features ideas on how to inject new life into old pillowcases, instead of having them lurking around in a dark corner of the closet. If you happen to be leading a zen lifestyle (with no pillowcases around the house to hack) you could simply head to a local thrift store, where I guarantee you’ll find piles of graphic geometric or cute florals to choose from….What to make?
doily canvas bag
Thankfully everyone seems to be making a switch from plastic to lasting when it comes to shopping bags, so here’s another fun little tutorial on customizing one to make it oh so cute. You might notice a lot of doilies in my recent diy projects. Since I was getting so many ready for A Christmas Gathering I used a lot of the same materials…monograms seems to be pretty popular now too. My friend Cindy called while I was working on this and suggested I just go ahead a put a “W” on it for her, I happily obligied. Canvas bag ($2.00 when on sale at Hobby Lobby), fabric paint, paper doily, Krylon Paper Finishes Adhesive Spray
Lined Paper Tee by Maybe Matilda
I’m pretty dang excited to be guest posting on U Create, of all places, with an easy and fun project for you. Just in time for heading back to school, I came up with this cute top: My name is Rachel, and I blog over Maybe Matilda.
Recipe for Popcorn Chicken at Life
I was walking through the grocery store last weekend and they had this huge freezer with a special on popcorn chicken. I was a little intrigued. It would be a very quick and easy dinner for during the week. And I almost picked up a bag. The key word there is almost. I ended up deciding against it because I thought “you know what?
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Simply Vintagegirl Blog » Blog Archive » Tutorial: How to Make Lovely Fabric Flowers
29 May 2010 These elegant fabric flowers are very simple to make . . . and only take a few basic supplies. The finished product is delightfully lovely, and at times can look like a real flower!
DIY Book Clutch
I love things that are quirky, and if they boarder on the nerdy side of quirky I love them even more. Olympia Le-Tan’s handmade embroidered book clutches are so perfectly and quaintly quirky that I immediately fell in love. If the clutches alone hadn’t already woo-ed me sufficiently, the film she made with Spike Jonze for Nowness definitely would have tipped me over the edge into obsession. The real thing starts around $1,300, but you can DIY for about $15! I used one of these newly reprinted classics from Barnes & Noble, they’re perfect for this with whimsical hardcovers and sturdy pages.
Chicken Cordon Bleu … My way
I have to be honest, I did not cook this on our holiday. It was one of the many meals I cooked and photographer before coming on holiday, because let’s be honest, there is no way I’m going to stuff and roll chicken breasts for 10 people!! But this IS the perfect thing to wow your friends and family should you feel the need to impress anyone this Festive Season. I’ve loved Chicken Cordon Bleu since I was a little girl. I used to ALWAYS order it in restaurants just so I could say “bleuuuu” (pronounced Bluhhh).
Traditional Japanese Crafts: Silk Folded Flowers
I run Atelier Kanawa (which means “studio to play Japanese harmony & peace”) and I would love to share my stories of my ancestors who were in Kimono business and how I am trying to keep these traditions alive. My great grandfather was an artisan who dyed Kimono designs, mainly Yukata, the Summer Kimono. My grandmother was a Kimono tailor, and both my mother and my aunt graduated from Kimono academy. My aunt has been teaching Kimono classes in Japan. Since January in 2005, I have been studying Kimono and dressing with them myself.
TetraBox Light by Ed Chew
Liquid to Light Designer Ed Chew takes a green step in the right direction with the TetraBox lamp, a light object made from discarded drink packets that would have otherwise ended up in landfills already packed to the brim. The design is achieved by unfolding the packets and refolding them into hexagonal and pentagonal sections that are then pieced together to form a geodesic sphere or any other desired shape.
Easter Eggs with White Chocolate Mousse
Very simple to make and so lovely looking – these Easter eggs filled with delicious white chocolate mousse are a real treat! Serve them at your Easter brunch or with the 4 o’clock tea! Ingredients: 12 empty chocolate eggs (in the size of a normal egg) 100g white chocolate 2 egg whites 50g sugar 150ml double cream 40ml milk Blueberries A handful of small mint leaves Method: In a bowl, whip the egg whites with sugar until they form firm peaks. Melt the chocolate au bain marie.
Photoshop Effects: recreate the look of a medium format portrait
When I first got in to photography, which wasn't quite 100 years ago, there were three reasonably clear groups of camera user. The happy snappers used compacts, the enthusiasts used SLRs and the professionals used medium, or large, format. If you were a really 'serious' amateur, and every club had at least one of these Yodas, you might have got yourself a medium format system, using 6x4.5cm, 6x6cm or even 6x7cm frames of 120 roll film. If you were a professional wedding or landscape photographer you wouldn't have dreamt of using a 35mm SLR, for credibility reasons as much as for quality, and a happy snapper wouldn't have known which end of a 35mm SLR or medium format camera to look through. Not much of that has meant a great deal in the last eight or so years, and the lines between what is professional equipment and what is amateur are exceedingly blurred. Old format, old hat
