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Wooden Gems. Try This: Wooden Gems Today's tutorial will set you back a couple of bucks and ten minutes, and in the end, you'll have a handful of little gemstones ready for whatever projects your imagination can scheme up.

Wooden Gems

Read on for the easy step-by-step and few ideas for how to put these little beauties to use. MATERIALS: wooden rectangles, pencil, fine tip paint brush, craft paints in colors of your choosing, black, and white ONE: Begin by sketching the facet lines as shown. They don't have to be perfect. TWO: Mix up six shades of the color of your choosing using black and white paint. THREE: Use the fine tip brush to carefully paint inside your sketched facet lines. Try out some other colors and use them in all sorts of ways...jewelry, keychains, napkin rings. A chandelier that turns a room into a forest.

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We The Tiny House People. This is journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops.

We The Tiny House People

Basically, Dirksen made a documentary on people living in tiny houses. For around five years she was traveling the world and filming these segments. Kirsten Dirksen is co-founder of faircompanies.com and a Huffington Post blogger. She has worked for MTV, Oxygen, The Travel Channel and Sundance Channel. From the author: I still live in a relatively spacious 1000 square foot apartment with my family of 4 (soon-to-be 5) and I’m not looking to downsize, but I can’t get enough of these tiny homes. I continue to be impressed by how so many Tiny House People have been able to let go of their stuff and not despite, but because of this, find a certain calm.

Watch the full documentary now. Hang Drum. A few months back I stumbled across a video blog by a moderately well known musician.

Hang Drum

I watched for a few minutes as this person talked about a new album before picking up a very interesting instrument. It appeared to be some sort of steel drum in the shape of a UFO. Unsure of what to expect, I kept watching and was blown away by the sweet percussive tones coming from this strange instrument. It was played with the hands, which just made it seem all the more exotic. I forgot about this video until about a month ago when I came across another video: YouTube Video Now I knew what this instrument was called, a Hang.

Unable to find the slightest shred of information regarding the process by which Hang drums are made, I turned to researching traditional steel pan making techniques. I changed many of the techniques to suit what would be required for a Hang. As is done when building a traditional steel pan, I started with the bottom of a 55 gallon oil drum. That concludes the initial shaping. Cut&paste - we design sticky brands. Geek Living Daily 120502. This post is part of our daily blog that shows our collection of geeky home living products or designs.

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If you want to participate and share your discovery or own design, just send us from here: form to submit Do you want to see all images from Geek Living Blog? Check out –>Subscribe to Geek Living Blog<– 1)What is Geeky Light? 2)[DIY] make your own style bookshelf with few pieces of wood 3)This Elagone lamp made of oak wood with LED light installed inside. 4)Very cool wooden clock without any number. 5)Cannot imagine there are people who recycle wine bottles like this 6)Used beer bottle turn to beautiful vase, everybody can do it. 7)Does our iPad need this buddy? 8)Writeable table with 3 hidden chalkboards, flip it up, you can write messages and surprise people, great idea!

9)Cool vintage bathroom design 10)Iron faceless LED wrist watch, pretty suitable for Iron Man. Top 10 Sites for Do It Yourself Projects : Planet Green.