Drink Can Tinwork Upcycles Soda Cans into Embossed Boxes. SExpand Am I doing it right?
Protips: 1) Don't score the original fold lines with anything sharper than that ballpoint pen. As you can see my box disintegrated along those lines when I folded it up. 2) Not a project for those with arthritis. 3) Draw your patterns as if you were using a big fat marker; use broad shapes and leave plenty of room between them, because, 4) When you go to trace your lines on the front, you'll NOT want to trace them too close, or the relief won't stand out very much, and it will be hard to RE-trace your original lines on the back.
DIY Oil Lamp from Recycled Cooking Fats. How to Build a Car Mount for Your Cellphone from Office Supplies. Vodka Makes The Perfect Cocktail, But What Else Can It Do? 16 weird and wonderful uses for vodka... and a few drink recipes. At a recent cocktail party, I was surprised to find people favoring brandy and bourbon drinks over vodka drinks. It surprised me because vodka has always seemed to me to be the go-to choice for a good drink. Spray Paint Art by Clay Butler: Purple Fantasy Forest. Create a Polymer Clay Collage Pendant. LED Tin Can Lantern. How to make belts and bracelets out of soda pop tabs. DIY Stone Sconces. This is a super easy project that anyone can do on the super cheap.
I wanted some nice sconces for my guest bath downstairs. I looked high and low and couldn’t find anything I wanted and the ones I did like were about $20 a piece….story of my life. I couldn’t bring myself to spend $40 on 2 sconces for the guest bath. A few weeks back I was strolling the Dollar Tree trying to see if there was anything that I could fashion into a sconce. I walked the whole store 3 times and came up empty. Anyway let us continue. I walked back into the Dollar Tree and grabbed 2 bags of decorative stones, glass tealight candle holders, a pack of glue sticks and some sponge brushes for $6. I already has some wood at the house and some dark brown paint. We had a wood board that was 1/2 inch thick. Once the paint dried I nailed the picture handing hardware to the back, top part of the larger rectangles. Then hot glued the small bottom piece onto the back.
Checkout the finish product proudly handing on the wall. Red Sofa - designer jewelry — RedSofa - designer jewelry. Paint Moss Graffiti - Step-by-Step Guides for Offbeat DIY Projects. Slatts Paracord Rescue Bracelet (no buckle) I love paracord, both for its countless uses and the fact that it looks really cool when woven into bracelets, belts, straps, etc.
Yong ho ji: mutant mythos tire sculptures. May 14, 2010 ji yong ho: mutant mythos tire sculptures ‘deer head 3′ tire, steel, wood, styrofoam 29x21x38 in. (74x53x97 cm) 2007 (image: gana art) ‘mutant mythos‘ is a collection of sculptures by korean artist ji yong-ho. the pieces are made by hand from recycled tires and include animals, humans, and combinations of both. ji calls his variations ‘mutants’ to refer to both their hybrid forms and the mutation of media that their creation requires. sizes vary from an eleven-inch-high dog, to a wild goat with horns that is five-feet-tall to a 10-foot-long hammerhead shark.
The pieces were first exhibited at gana art, new york in 2008 and have since been shown around the world. ‘rhino head 1′ tire, steel, wood, styrofoam, 2008 (image: gana art) ‘my concept is mutation—mutants. the product is from nature, from the white sap of latex trees but here it’s changed. the color is black. the look is scary. rubber is very flexible, like skin, like muscles’ – YHJ. Saucydwellings: String tree how-to. In the past I've had people request instructions on how to recreate the string tree I made in my living room.
While I don't have a full tutorial, I do have enough to get you going so you can hopefully recreate this fun project at home. Here's the tree in my living room that started all the trouble: I apologize in advance for the quality of the photos, when I took them my camera's screen had died- so I could take pictures but I couldn't really aim or anything or be sure the photo had come out. Start by putting pushpins into the wall in the general shape of the tree you're hoping to create. Online : How-To: Make a cellphone battery holder using a vacuum former. Teh Vaporizer. Heat shrink fuse holder @Makezine.com blog. Easy Decoration Tips - String Tree Wall Mural. DIY Altoids Mini BBQ Grill Is Curiously Awesome! Happy Labor Day!
As households across the states prepare to fire up the BBQ today, why not give your grilling a smaller footprint this year with this awesome mini grill made from a tin of Altoids! This ingenious DIY project was pulled together using an empty tin of Altoids Sours, two salvaged computer fan guards, and a bunch of nuts and bolts, and it’s large enough to hold a single veggie dog or hamburger patty. How-To: Ultralight camp pot from Heineken "keg" can @Makezine.com blog. In the summer of 2002, Heineken introduced its 24 oz.
“mini keg” can in the US. Besides having twice the volume of a normal aluminum beverage can, the “mini keg’s” unusual design includes a number of ridges and rings that make it much more rigid. Sometime around 2004, so far as I can tell, ultralight backpacking enthusiasts began experimenting with using the new can design as a cooking pot. The community has evolved the design of these cooking pots to a remarkable extent, and although there seem to be as many variations as there are builders, a few common features seem to be emerging: