Spinning Wheel. How to Create an Inexpensive Photography Lightbox (with pictures) Make a Plant Press. The frosty, bloomless months of winter offer their own charms as mosses, lichens, and mushrooms pop from every moist nook under the forest canopy, but who doesn’t long for the sun filled beauty of handpicked wildflowers? The colorful blossoms of spring and summer can be enjoyed year round with one simple tool that is easily crafted during a lazy afternoon at home. Plant presses have been used for hundreds of years to dry and preserve specimens for safe travel across vast continents and rough seas. Explorers would guard their botanical treasures like gold, hoping to return home with a variety of floral curiosities for later identification, taxonomic cataloging, and even cherished supplies for artwork. Presses can be small enough to carry in your hiking pack, perfect for collecting herbaceous plant leaves, roots, and flowers as you wander, or they can be made large enough to press a towering Verbascum thapsus from your garden, root to flower.
Cardboard Plant Press * Several old newspapers. Make a Rolling Kitchen Cart From an Old Filing Cabinet » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: curbly-original, caesarstone, Kitchen. Curbly-Original We’ve never met anyone who couldn’t use more kitchen storage and counter space. This rolling kitchen cart offers both - drawers for storage of tools, spices, or root vegetables, racks to hang towels and utensils, and a butcher-block top for food preparation or appliance storage. Read on to find out, in step-by-step detail, how to make one yourself... We're bringing you this Curbly original project as part of a series of posts sponsored by Caesarstone - makers of quality natural quartz surfaces.
The main structure is a used filing cabinet, which are plentiful in secondhand shops, garage sales, and online classified listings. We found ours for less than three dollars at a charity shop. Look for a filing cabinet whose drawers and hardware are in working order, and for a case that has no major dents or damage. Materials: Tools: Mineral spirits or sticker removerElectric drill1⁄8” and 1⁄16” drill bits24 1⁄8” bolts, 1/2 - 1” long24 1⁄8” nuts 4 #8 short screwsWashers (if necessary)