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How to Turn Film Roll Canisters Into Rad Invites. Film roll canisters: these little but sturdy metal containers protect our precious film.

How to Turn Film Roll Canisters Into Rad Invites

Yet for all their help, they get discarded during the film process, made to wander aimlessly through a sad landfill. Make Your Own “Resort Quality” Liquid Hand Soap for Pennies. Whenever I go to our local thrift store…I’m always drawn to the room with all the health and beauty odds and ends because they have a big basket FULL of wonderful smelling soaps, lotions, shampoos and conditioners that come from fancy resorts and hotels in the area.

Make Your Own “Resort Quality” Liquid Hand Soap for Pennies

(There are a lot around here, trust me!) The little bottles of lotion are the perfect size for keeping in your purse, the shampoos and conditioners are great for travelling (unless you’re staying in a fancy hotel, then you’re already covered) and the soaps (about .10 cents each), I have discovered, are perfect for making great-smelling liquid hand soap! While I was working on the boys bathroom “mini-makeover” I came across a really old bottle of Dial liquid hand soap tucked in a drawer. I realized the new set-up called for a nice, new bottle of soap, but I just can’t bring myself to throw away perfectly good containers! The method for making your own liquid hand soap could NOT be any easier.

Leg Warmers pattern by Jane Richmond. Your local branch of Present&Correct has just by presentandcorrect. This store is managed by KARAKU Co Ltd by karaku. Stamp it out » the fabric of my life. 1. vintage wooden letterpress stamps, euro vintage 2. vintage city central office stamp, same same mary jane 3. old japanese wood stamps, wold heart 4. office industrial rubber stamps, world vintage 5. vintage 60s rubber stamps, the mother load 6. 2 vintage rubber stamps, treasure darling 7. vintage numbers and squares stamp set, bouquet 8. vintage rubber stamp wooden blocks, wisteria studio 9. vintage wooden rubber stamps, the cozy corner.

stamp it out » the fabric of my life

Vintage office rubber stamp set. CAVALLINI WOODEN STAMP SET PAR AVION: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home. I'm a paper and pen freak, and even though these stamps seemed a little pricey I decided it was worth a shot.

CAVALLINI WOODEN STAMP SET PAR AVION: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home

And it was. These stamps are awesome and I love them, have been merrily stamping away. Someone commented the stamps don't have a foam seat between the wooden block and the rubber die - they don't. Welcome to Norajane on Etsy by norajane. How to Carve Your First Stamp. Stamp Carving 101 After you have your desired image on your carving block, carving a stamp becomes nothing more than cutting away the parts of the carving medium that you don't need.

How to Carve Your First Stamp

Speedball Speedy-Carve Stamp Making Kit-: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home. {Tutorial} 3D Stamp + Cut Paper Garland. By Guusje Wannet of Ontwerpfabriek Appeltaart I love making garlands.

{Tutorial} 3D Stamp + Cut Paper Garland

They are festive, fun and easy to make. Blog: Stamps Archives. MAKE Flickr photo pool member funnypolynomial made some awesome stamps from the future (Faster than light travel and turing, PostScript source and PDFs included) - I can’t remember the exact genesis, but one day recently the idea of “Stamps from the Future” popped into my head.

blog: Stamps Archives

I thought, what kinds of things would people commemorate on postage stamps in the near or distant future? My first thought was travelling Faster Than Light (FTL). I really wanted to make such a stamp, but I stalled for a while because the image I had in my head of the stamp portraying some kind of spaceship, seemed tricky to execute. I wanted a sense of verisimilitude, so I wanted to do a sheet, but how to repeat the design?

More: And… we’re launching a newsletter version of the “News from the Future” category on MAKE (and from the print magazine) so – go and sign up. Subscribers, log in and read’em all! News From the Future from MAKE: 08: Toys and Games. Phillip Torrone Editor at large – Make magazine. Related. Henna for Hair. Vintage postcard calendar journal. Growing up, I kept a daily journal.

vintage postcard calendar journal

I always enjoyed looking back at previous entries to see what had changed over the course of a year. These days, I can’t seem to find the time to journal, but I do try to jot down a little note from each day on my perpetual calendar/journal. The idea is very simple — flip to the current date and at the end of the day, write down something that happened. Some days it is big things like “Annie took her first steps.” Other days it is small, like “needed more than one cup of coffee this morning.” The first year is the least rewarding, but I imagine that in 10 years, it will be a daily treat to be reminded of what happened on that date over the last decade. CLICK HERE for the full how-to after the jump!

I’m always trying to give new life to things I can’t pass up at flea markets. Materials Instructions 1. 2. 3.