DIY Skills - DIY Skills. DIY Projects Essential Skills and How To. Apache Foot Trap (A Survival Trap) Parchment Cupcake Liners. By Joy on April 9th, 2012 We realized too late that there were no cupcake liners in the house for Kodiak’s birthday cupcakes. Rather than running to the store for bleached, colored, pre-folded liners, Kelsy made some out of unbleached parchment paper. How to Make Natural Shampoo [Easy Recipe] I’ve made natural alternatives to most of our household products and toiletry product, but shampoo was by far the toughest. Make Your Own Laundry Detergent! It's Easy! Save BIG & Have Fresh, Clean Laundry! Well, I did it! I have pinned various recipes for homemade laundry detergent for months, now, thinking that soon I would gather the exotic ingredients and muster the courage to make some. I should have paid a lot more attention to those recipes I was pinning.
Four Homemade Cleaners. This was easier than I thought it would be.
2 oz Natural Twist-up Tube, Twist-up Tubes, Elements Bath & Body. Homemade Laundry Detergent [Soap] How to Make a Gallon of Liquid Handsoap From a Bar of Soap. Could This be the Next Big Thing In Backyard Pools? [VIDEO. Make Your Own Non-Petroleum Jelly. Homemade Soap & Body Care. Homemade Lip Balm. You've stumbled upon one of my most popular posts.
You might also enjoy let's talk lip balm. After making my own lip balm I will never buy it again. It's easy, cheap, 100% natural and good for your lips, especially this time of year. I tried to figure out the actual cost of this recipe but it wasn't worth counting up the pennies. Let's just say Burt's Bees makes a killing on lip balm! Ingredients 1/2 oz. Directions In a small pot over medium low heat melt beeswax, coconut oil, lanolin and vitamin E. This recipe makes enough for 3 - 3/4 oz tins (see photo for size) and one 1 1/2 oz jar. Notes. How to Make a Friendship Bracelet. How to Make a Friendship Bracelet.
A friendship bracelet has a knot as a symbol of a friendship that can't be broken. Let your friends know how special they are with a hand-tied friendship bracelet. Halloween Specimens, Potion Bottles, and Apothecary Jars. Halloween is the one time a year where everyone can get away with putting their strangest collectibles on display.
So, take full advantage -- light up those squishy little Halloween specimens in glass jars, fill the potion bottles with colorful liquids adorned with vintage label designs, and top off the apothecary jars with edible candy sweets and/or gruesome appetizers to indulge your guests in an unforgettably strange Halloween party. Potions, elixirs, and specimens have been bottled up since the middle ages, as one of the earliest ancient medical practices to be able to easily distinguish and dispense pharmaceutical mixtures in both healing and poisonous forms. Mommy Blessings: Potion Bottle Labels Tutorial.
Just in time for Halloween – We’ve raided the Fairy Godmothers Potion Cabinet.
Aged Halloween Potion Bottle Labels. I’ve been working on spookifying my house for Halloween, and my favorite look has to be the vintage Halloween style.
It’s somehow creepier if it’s old, right? Here’s how you can take ordinary household items and create vintage “potion” bottles for creepy ingredients like eye of newt and arsenic. And with a simple coat of spray paint, no one has to know the bottles are actually empty! Supplies for Aged Potion Bottle Labels: Glass bottles (try empty food bottles from the recycling bin, or pick something up at the thrift store for next to nothing!) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Blot with a paper towel and allow to dry. 6. You might notice the “Potions” label in the picture does not look like the others. AranaMuerta.com. Every witch needs a kitchen… and a cauldron, and some shelves, and some potion bottles, and a spell book.. and pets….
Visit my shop to see if there are any potions ready for purchase, or read on and learn to make your own. Making witch kitchen jars and ingredients is easy and inexpensive. Any jar or bottle of any size will do. Potion Bottles. Aged Paper Labels for Potion Bottles, Alchemy Labs, etc. I enjoy making potion bottles, especially ones that look ancient.
However, an old-looking bottle requires a similarly aged label. To create the effect of an aged label, I used a simple graphics program (in this case, MSPaint but you can use GIMP, Photoshop, etc.) to generate the label, then print and age it. Because I want the printed elements of the label to look distressed (and because it's difficult to run anything but smooth sheets of paper through my printer), I aged the paper after the design was printed. Some printer ink can’t stand up to this process. The ink should be fairly color-fast. You can create an image for your label using a border or interesting clipart found online or in your own clipart collection. In step one, I selected the scroll and turned it in the direction I wanted.
Homemade Fabric Softener in Frugal Tips, Homemade Cleaners, Recipes. You may already be making Homemade Laundry Detergent and other DIY Cleaners… but if you’ve been wanting to cut costs on Fabric Softener… you’re going to love this Homemade Fabric Softener!
What You’ll Need: What You’ll Do: Mix conditioner & hot water well, until conditioner is dissolved completely.Add the vinegar, and mix well.Store in a large container {empty fabric softener container, empty large vinegar bottle, etc}Pour into a downy ball… or use approx. 2 tbsp. in the fabric softener spot in your laundry machine… then wash! Thanks to frugal friend Holly for sharing this great recipe on The Frugal Girls Facebook page!