Craftyc0rn3r: Lego Glycerin Soap. I decided to make some home made soap with my Lego molds as one of the favors for E.'s upcoming birthday party. They turned out so fabulous that my kids wanted to use them right away. I was quite shocked to discover how easy it was to make your own soap. I bought a 2 lb block of clear glycerin soap, a bottle of apple scent (since that is my favorite soap smell), and a package of soap coloring. It was $9.99 for the soap, $3.49 for the color dyes, and $2.99 for the apple scent. Cut the soap blocks. Put in a microwave safe container and microwave until the soap melts.
Add your scents and color dyes and mix. Pour into the mold (I made mine here) and wait 20 minutes for it to harden. Don't the Lego bricks look great? Here are some mini figure soaps Mix the color dyes to create even more colors Package the soap and you have a great party favor. I used photoshop to create some labels and had them printed at my local store. How To Make Your Own Insect Repellant Pure Beeswax Candles. Please Share This Page: Google + stumbleupon tumblr reddit If you are a first-time visitor, please be sure to like us on Facebook and receive our exciting and innovative tutorials on herbs and natural health topics! Image – DesignSponge.com Is the weather warming up where you are yet? It’s starting to feel like summer here in California, so I thought it was time to share this great tutorial that I discovered for making insect-repellant 100% pure beeswax candles!
Some of you may already have read my previous page of tips on how to make beeswax “jar candles”, together with the link to an original tutorlal. I can’t really think of very much to add to this fantastic tutorial. Here, then, is the link to the full tutorial for insect repellant beeswax candles: Huge Collection of 320+ TESLA Patents Manuals & Books on DVD ROM | Homesteading Self Sufficiency Survival. 30 Essential Things You Should Keep in Your Car. Endless Hot Water Without Electricity! 15 Lifehacks For Your Tiny Bathroom. 10-Minute DIY Holiday Gift Idea: Peppermint Soap. It’s time for another round of Craft Lightning – quick and easy DIY projects that take less than 20 minutes to make (like my shabby flower headband and stenciled wood bangle bracelet tutorials!).
Craft Lightning + Holiday Season = twice the fun! These lightning quick peppermint soaps are a fun DIY holiday gift idea for friends, neighbors and teachers and can be whipped up in about ten minutes! What You’ll Need: The large block of shea butter soap base is smooth and silky, and it cuts easily with a kitchen knife. Slice the soap base into cubes, place them inside the measuring cup, and melt in the microwave in 30 second increments. Stir well after each microwave session to ensure that the soap is completely melted. Add a few drops of peppermint oil (around 6-10 drops depending on the intensity of the fragrance) and mix well. Pour the melted soap into the mold and top with a few drops of red soap colorant.
Wrap a band of paper or ribbon around the stack of soap, and it’s ready for gifting! The 16 Best Healthy, Edible Plants to Grow Indoors. From farmers’ markets and Community Supported Agriculture, to urban farms and rooftop gardens, to produce delivery services, more and more people across the U.S. are embracing farm-fresh food. And for good reason: Locally grown produce tends to be better for the environment and for local communities than its store-bought counterparts. Growing food at home also ensures that growers know exactly where their food comes from and how it was grown (no need to worry about deceptive food labeling). If you’re not whipping out the pruning shears yet, consider this: Learning new skills is good for our brains. Luckily, you don’t need to be a farmer (or even live near a farm) in order to reap the benefits of home-grown produce.
If you have a sunny window (or two, or five) and a bit of extra time on your hands, then you’re capable of growing your own food right at home. General Growing Tips Fruits and Veggies Photo: Alpha 1. 2. 3. 4. How to Harvest: Most lemons will ripen in six to nine months. 5. 6. 7. Simple Aquaponics System for Growing Your Own Food & Fish At Home.
This aquaponics system is different than most. It’s a scaled down version of the system Will Allen over at Growing Power Inc uses to grow 1 Million pounds of food on his 3 acre farm in Milwaukee, WI. The whole system uses just a single pump and uses very little energy to pump nutrient rich water up to the gravel bed on top for filtration. The upper bed is slightly angled so the water can slowly drain down to the second bed below. And then finally back into the main tank where the fish are kept. This system is scalable and will produce a large amount of food in a very small space when compared with traditional row cropping. The tank(s) at Growing Power are some 60 feet long. This system has almost unlimited potential yield, and scalability. Also, this system can be housed in a greenhouse for year-round growing.
So, what are you waiting for? Image: Comments comments. Upskilling for Post Growth Futures, Together. When I was seven, I was given an Apple Macintosh in the hope that Mavis Beacon would teach me how to touch type. It was an unreasonable expectation, for I was actually more interested in escaping to the fantasy lands of computer games such as Dungeons and Dragons, and Lode Runner.
Yet, these games had a lasting, unexpected impact on my thirst for learning. In playing Dungeons and Dragons, I remember being particularly excited each time my archetypal characters would gain ‘experience points’ that enabled them to upgrade their abilities. I still feel that childlike thrill each time I learn something new.
As my work has expanded to explore how humans can flourish within the planet’s biophysical limits, I’ve also become painfully aware that in some aspects of my life, I’m not very well-equipped to flourish in futures beyond economic growth. But the rising value of the generalist does not mean we each need to know how to do everything ourselves. Means of Learning and the Self Health Bushcraft. DIY 1000 Watt Wind Turbine. Hydroelectric. Hydroelectric Power - Water power - micro hydro systems Micro hydro power is probably the least common of the three readily used renewable energy sources, but it has the potential to produce the most power, more reliably than solar or wind power if you have the right site.
This means having access to a river or creek that has a high enough flow to produce useable power for a good part of the year. Many creeks and rivers are permanent, ie, they never dry up, and these are the most suitable for micro-hydro power production. A micro hydro turbine can take several forms, the most widely recognized of which would be the water wheel, used extensively for grain grinding up until this century. Waterwheels are still used in some situations that do not require a fast-spinning turbine, such as for pumping water. However, other type of turbines have become quite common. The Campo Nuevo Watermotor is the only modern turbine designed to drive common machines directly with waterpower. By Joe Cole.
How to Make a Liquor Bottle Lamp Suzi's Crafts. I would like to share one of my favorite craft projects how to make a bottle lamp. You do have to invest about $15 for a diamond bit, but the bottle lamps can be made for less than $10 and they make amazing gifts or sold for a profit at craft shows and Etsy shops. You don’t have to be a drinker to get nice looking bottles. Most bars throw out there wine and liquor bottles on a regular basis. I simply asked around a couple bars to save me a few bottles and it wasn’t a problem at all. Worst case scenario you might have to dumpster dive for one lol! I bought the drill bit at Home Depot and they have the light kits for about $5. How To Drill Glass For Your Bottle Lamp When your drilling glass you need to take the proper precautions. The key to drilling glass is letting the bit do all the work. To start your hole, put the drill bit at an angle and start drilling out a groove (This prevents the bit from slipping and traveling on the face of the bottle).
Related Posts: Wikihouse Download and Print Your Own House. Imagine downloading your house online, and “printing” it out on a machine. You don’t have to imagine it. It is a reality. Wikihouse makes it possible to download the blueprint designs for the house, which can then be fed into a CNC machine and the parts (and tools) needed to assemble the shelter simply cut out from sheets of plywood. The practical applications are far reaching.
Not only can your design and download your own home, but the Wikihouse could be used in disaster relief scenarios where natural disasters, war, or political turmoil causes destruction of home and property and displaces many people. SCALABLE: This is scalable and modifiable. Anyone can download and use the plans and modify them for you own use under the terms of the license for free. Wikihouse is designed using Sketchup. This is a truly revolutionary idea, and the concept is proven. Source Links: Please visit us @ Mind Culture - Comments comments. Amazing Tiny House on Wheels: Truck Converted Into Gorgeous Solar Powered Off Grid Home. The off grid home is truly a self-sufficient design providing energy via roof mounted solar panels. Built by Joseph Tayyar, this wonderful example of ingenuity and sustainability is a tiny house worthy of the name.
How would you like to live in this? It doesn’t come cheap at $225k, but that cost is spread out over several years. Though this home is not quite affordable for many folks looking to move off grid right away, it does show what is possible with designing and building with recycled/repurposed vehicles, and high-technology. Maybe this will give you some ideas of what you can build for you and your family. This tiny home is self-sufficient, and mobile. Via: via: Images: Comments comments. ART IS BEAUTY: How to build your own FarmHouse Table for under $100.
Good morning my Beauties! I hope you had a fabulous weekend. My labor day weekend was FULL of labor. I built this here farmhouse table for our kitchen and I helped my sister build a chicken coop for her chickens...No resting around here. :) As for the table.........It has been on our bucket list for 2 summers... and both summers came and went...and by golly...by labor day weekend I looked at hubby and said..NO MORE.....
We had planned on using one of the Ana White Plans..she does amazing work and sets the plans up so perfect...but you see ...we had one problem.. You see this GORGEOUS antique primitive bench??? My beautiful Friend Erin, gave me this bench.. and said "do whatever with it". Well my whatever was KEEP IT!!! I loved it and couldn't let it go.. There was so much history in this bench.. So we had to BUILD the table around it.. It was a very long old bench and the numbers just were not working for us with the Ana White plans and since the hubby and I have both built farm tables before we.
Awesome Things To Make From Wire. Calling all creatives out there, today’s 50+ roundup is going to feed your inspiration banks. We gathered over 50 super awesome things to make from wire. You can get craft wire for pretty cheap, and as you will see, you can even use wire hangers! From Christmas, Halloween and Valentine’s Day projects, to jewelry to home decor and gifts, you can find a wire project for about any occasion. If you have a wire project we didn’t find, send it to us. Enjoy! How To Make Homemade Soap In A Crockpot {A Photo Tutorial}One Good Thing by Jillee. This post has been a year and a half in the making. I hope you’ll be as excited about it as I am!
;-) Ever since I started blogging and making my own homemade versions of household products I have wanted to try making SOAP! But I was completely intimidated by the whole process. First of all it involved MATH, which is NOT my strong suit. (OK…it’s not much math…but still). Then there were the “special ingredients” and finally, the “special equipment” needed. Let me first dispel some of the silly notions I had about the soap-making process: 1.) 2.) 3.) OK…now that I’ve dispelled some of the “myths” of soap-making….let’s get down to it, shall we?
I have to start by PROFUSELY thanking Angela at Living From Scratch for her tutorial. Oh, I forgot to mention, there is one more fairly important piece of equipment that is needed for this particular soap-making endeavor….a crockpot. First thing you have to do if you want to make soap is find a recipe. Then do the same thing with the coconut oil. 1. Winter Camping: The Long Fire. Please Share This Page: Google + stumbleupon tumblr reddit Winter Camping: The Long FirePhoto – Fire is an essential component of survival in the wild. If you want to go camping or are in a survival situation during the height of the winter season, it’s going to be a bit challenging to set up a campfire. We’ve found a great video tutorial by IA Woodsman that will teach you how to create long lasting fires using a special technique called the long fire. Location is essential if you want to create fire. Unless you have logs of wood already prepared, try looking for fallen timber.
To start a fire it is quintessential to get good tinder. Okay, here is the video: Great Ideas for Upcycling Those Old Jeans — A Cultivated Nest. In my post 21 Frugal Tips To Try This Year I mentioned that one thing I wanted to work on was the idea of repair/reuse/repurpose. With that in mind, I researched some ways that I could upcycle/repurpose my daughter’s holey jeans (which are beyond donating them to Goodwill). You could make cute little pencil pouches like these from Papemelroti via etsy seller GPyoga Here are a few ideas that I think are bit different from what I’m used to seeing. I’ve seen one or two bloggers make slipcovers for their chairs out of denim. This beautiful chair is made by Legend Blues who uses recycled jeans to make one of a kind furniture. This cute upcycled denim placemat (there’s a tutorial on how to make it) is from Today’s Nest.
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