Wine Bottle Lights. Decorating a basement bar or rec room can cost a fortune. But Bill Lehman from Muskego, Wisconsin shares this fun idea for turning wine bottles into inexpensive art! First gather several empty wine bottles and corks. Wash the bottles inside and out with hot, soapy water. Any glue reside from the label can be removed with a penetrating oil spray like WD-40®. Make a simple wooden V-shaped fixture to hold the bottle while drilling. Wearing eye protection and work gloves, slowly and carefully drill a hole 1 to 2 inches up from the bottom of each bottle using a 1/2-in. drill bit designed for glass.
Rinse bottle to remove any glass particles. If desired, use a clear sealant to cover any rough edges of glass. For each bottle, you need a single-plug strand of 20-25 lights. To make it easier to put the cork back into the bottle, drill an 1/8-in. hole lengthwise into each cork. Editor's Note: If the glass has any defects, it may crack during drilling. Monster Fleece Lovey Blankets. Back in March when I was knee deep in monster birthday party planning, I came across fleece fabric at JoAnn's that had little monsters on it. I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but I went ahead and purchased 2 yards of it anyway. And its been sitting on my craft shelf ever since. When I found out this weeks One Crafty Contest material was fabric, I knew it was time to put the monster fleece to use!
I don't own a sewing machine nor do I know how to sew - Yes, there is something I can't do :o) But I had recently learned how to crochet around fleece for the Project Linus Blanket Drive. I thought a blanket was too boring, but a monster lovely would be perfect! First I cut a 10.5 x 12 piece of the fleece fabric. I purchase my skip stitch blade from the Project Linus website and you will need a Fiskars 45mm Contour Rotary Cutter which I purchased from Amazon. Here is the crochet pattern I came up. Head: Chain 17, SC in second chain from hook, and in the next 16. And sewing shut. 4 Tips For Going Paperless With Kids. Having kids produces a lot of paper. Even before they are born there are forms to fill out. Then they are born and there are more forms. There are medical records. School forms. Artwork. Report cards. Permission slips. 1.
There are as many ways to organize notes in Evernote as there are people who use Evernote. I have a tag for each of my kids. 2. Any time we get paperwork, it goes into my inbox and gets scanned into Evernote as part of my daily process. I set the create date of the note to the date on the form. Not everyone is comfortable having this kind of information in the cloud and that is a perfectly reasonable concern. Having these documents has come in very handy. 3. Once my son started at his school, he started producing artwork and he hasn’t stopped. 4. I’ve written about how I use Evernote to remember everything.
Other things that I capture on my timeline: When my kids are sick. You get the idea. There are probably a lot more ways you can go paperless with kids. Creating Virtual Scrapbooks Using Evernote. I imagine that nearly everyone has tried to keep a scrapbook of some kind at some point in their life. Maybe it was to collect ticket stubs for concerts or sporting events. Maybe it was for vacations or family photos. When I first started writing, I kept a scrapbook of my rejection letters, and later, after I was published, I kept a scrapbook of my publications. But scrapbooks take up room on shelves. They can be damaged by the elements or by wear and tear. It seems to me that Evernote is as good a place as any to keep and maintain “virtual” scrapbooks. So this week, I’ll discuss four types of virtual scrapbooks you can keep in Evernote (there are, of course, countless types) and I’ll talk about some of the ways I manage my scrapbooks.
My Bibliography Scrapbook One thing I’ve been doing for a while now is keeping a virtual scrapbook of all of my “tear sheets.” I’ll use this scrapbook to collect reviews on my stories as they are called out to me by friends. My Kids’ Artwork Scrapbook. ScrappingHappy. Summer Layout.