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Copper Plating and Etching Altoids Tins. UPDATE: There's some great information on this page and it's comments, but I've recently published a far more comprehensive article here: Etching Tins with Salt Water and Electricity With this project I wanted to try a number of new things: Magazine pages as cheap toner transfer mediaCopper electroplatingEtching Altoid tins with a salt water solution The copper plating met with mixed success, but the other two methods resulted in some nice pieces.

Note: blue vitriol and muriatic acid are archaic names for copper sulfate and hydrochloric acid. Magazine pages for toner transfer: While looking for information on transferring toner using a fuser assembly from an old laser printer I ran across several websites where people suggested using glossy magazine pages for transferring printed circuit board images to a copper substrate. I thought I'd give this a try for etching Altoid tins, so I cut up a likely magazine. Preparing the Altoids tins turned out to be harder then I predicted. Next we: Foom! Christmas Craft Ideas - 50 Pics. SHOW OFF HOME | SHOW OFF. The Magic With Corks | Home Decorating - Design And Ideas. If you enjoy in good wine and you didn’t trow away the old corks you can create interesting home gadgets that are both interesting and creative. Home decorating can be improved using one of the 25 home ideas with corks we presented here.

You don’t need to spend money for your home, you can easily recycle and reuse the old corks for coasters, maths and much more. Stamps Thread Spool Corks Wreath Magnetic Cork Planters Cork Ball Key Chains Coasters Cork Letter Placecard Holders Trivet Bathmat Plant Marker Cheese Knives Cork Candles Cork Candle Votives Simple Cork Necklace Embroidered Cork Necklace Wine Corkboard Champagne Cork Knobs Wine Charms Lampshade Fridge Magnets Animal Sculptures Cork Pen Journaling corks arts, corks usage, diy corks.

How To Turn A Beer Bottle Into A Glass. Crookedbrains. Make a scrying mirror. Now here's a very odd but simple project that doesn't involve electronics at all, but has a very delicious element of darkness to it in more ways than one. It's a scrying mirror. Basically a black mirror used to focus (or defocus) the mind to perceive images often perceived as spiritual. Have you ever laid in a dark room and gradually seen random images like people or portals into other places?

Not everyone has this experience and it may be linked to forms of autism where the dream world leaks into waking vision. It happens to me, and I'll admit that in the past it used to be a bit scary at times. I can well understand why this would have been even scarier in the dark ages, and why they may have been interpreted as spiritual visions or prophecies when a child innocently told it's parents about the images it was seeing. Here are the materials we will need for this project. We start by removing the glass carefully from the picture frame. Patience is a virtue! And there we have it. Home > Geometric toy > Origami Spring. How To Mix Chalkboard Paint in Any Color. We love using chalkboards as backdrops for displays and parties (like this one here!). So we were super excited to learn that you can create your own custom colors-and it's really easy!

We first learned how from Martha Stewart whose tutorial you can read here. She recommends that you use latex paint, but we tried it out with acrylic paints with much success. Here's how you too can create your own chalkboard paint... Supplies: 1/2 cup acrylic paint (choose any color you like, or mix colors together to make the perfect shade!) 1. 2. Once your chalkboard has fully dried be sure to slate the surface before using it for the first time. Have fun creating any color combination you like!! 31 Insanely Easy And Clever DIY Projects.

1181-1340220830-6.jpg (500×1221) Art 1. Optical Design. Two Turntables Are A Drawing Machine. Forget two turntables and a microphone—focus instead on two turntables and some wooden arms. In Drawing Apparatus Robert Howsare turns a pair of turntables into an automated drawing machine, swapping rotating vinyl for two wooden arms that draw geometric patterns as the turntables spin around. Varying the speed or shortening the wooden arms leads to different patterns being created, with Howsare seeing the resulting images as markers of temporality rather than simply drawings.

As he explains: The revolutions of the records create drawings that serve as a markers of temporality. The drawings also speak to the idea of the editionable print through their ability to be replicated using domestic materials. The simple device follows in the traditions of automated drawing machines pioneered by computer artist Desmond Paul Henry and continued by many others. [via MAKE] @stewart23rd. How to make roses from maple leaves. How to turn "water" into "marbles".

Ice Formations Diurnal Freeze-Thaw Cycles. In January 2007 I was introduced to some interesting photos of ice growing from a metal fence on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. I corresponded with Sheryl Terris about her photos and she gave me permission to use them on my web page. In these three photos we see ribbons of ice emerging from where the top beam sits on the vertical support posts. The sign above warns to Beware of Dog and in the photo below we see the legs of one of those dogs. We also see the size of this ribbon in inches. These three photos show the junctions of the vertical steel support beams with the overlying larger beam. The two photos below are quite special.

The extrusion of two rods of ice from a small hole in the base of the steel fence above is quite exotic. My Attempts to Grow Ice to Explain Many Things I was not able to find any ice on plant stems in the fall and winter 2006-2007 season, although I looked many places. I then turned to black steel pipes and had more success. To do / Glass cutting with only yarn and fingernail polish remover- Here is what you do: -wrap the cotton yarn around your bottle 5-6 times, tie and cut ends. -slide yarn off of the bottle -dip in nail polish remover -slide the wet yarn back onto the bott. Stuffed animal. This is actually quite a good idea! Secret Belgian Binding Instructions.

The Secret Belgian Binding These instructions show you how to bind a book with an interesting pattern of weaving which laces the front and back covers to the spine. Included is the sewing of the text block (a set of four signatures) which is attached to the inside spine of the cover. The secret is in the weave of the cover and in attaching the text block. It is not difficult to do but requires patience in getting the threads taut so that the book does not wobble. Hedi Kyle rediscovered this binding attributed to the Belgians and she solved the mystery of how to make it. The materials and tools needed are as follows: Questions or comments?