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How To Make a Wall-Mounted Magnetic Spice Rack Reader Tips. Create Your Own Sun Jar: Lifehacker Edition. BuildItSolar: Solar energy projects for Do It Yourselfers to save money and reduce pollution. Paper Filigree Snowflake Gallery. I've switched over to using acid free paper and glue to make my paper filigree snowflake ornaments now. I figure there's no sense in putting this much work into something that might fall apart in a few years, and with practice, they're starting to get pretty enough that I'm planning to make quite a few of them.

In my search for paper that will hold up over time, I was looking for archival quality paper, but there wasn't much available that wasn't too thick, or too yellow. I visited all sorts of art, craft, scrapbook, and office supply stores in my paper quest, but the pickings were pretty slim for archival paper in shades of silver and white, so I went with mostly acid free paper and will see how it holds up. The pictures don't show it very clearly, but the snowflake above on the right has both white and off white, and it adds an interesting antique look, or at least I thought so until my kids mentioned the old joke about not eating the yellow snow. "How to make a solar power generator". Paper Filigree Snowflake Gallery. Paracord Lanyard Project.

Etched Glass Storage Jars - Martha Stewart Home & Garden. How to make roses from maple leaves. Paper Flowers – Anyone Can Do That. Japanese Kusudama, this tutorial is featured on Craftuts Anyone can do that, I assure you.

Paper Flowers – Anyone Can Do That

The proof: I can, just take a quick look at my result below.