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Shoe Lacing Methods. Mathematics tells us that there are more than 2 Trillion ways of feeding a lace through the six pairs of eyelets on an average shoe.

Shoe Lacing Methods

This section presents a fairly extensive selection of 50 shoe lacing tutorials. They include traditional and alternative lacing methods that are either widely used, have a particular feature or benefit, or that I just like the look of. 50 Different Ways To Lace Shoes Criss Cross Lacing This is probably the most common method of lacing normal shoes & boots. Pets / Destructive Puppy On The Loose. Taste of Product Design / Recycling. Summer / Water Balloon Pinata. Bayhylle's Saloon and Lagoon / Mason jars with cupcake liners...keep the bugs out of your summer beverages :) CLEVER! New Bow Glowbys Hair Lights - even better and brighter! Bow-shaped barrette, clip on/off switch. Perfect hair accessory extension for any nighttime event - St Patrick's Day, Prom, 4th of July, Halloween, New Years, Mardi Gras and more! Light up girls' hair with improved Glowbys fiber optic hair clips!

New Bow Glowbys Hair Lights - even better and brighter! Bow-shaped barrette, clip on/off switch. Perfect hair accessory extension for any nighttime event - St Patrick's Day, Prom, 4th of July, Halloween, New Years, Mardi Gras and more!

This Glowbys version has an attractive bow-shaped barrette (with the plastic barrette color matching the light color). They also switch on/off by closing/opening the hair clip of the barrette - it's not necessary to slide the lid open. Glowbys hair lights are illuminated thin fiber optic strands attached to the hair to create many brilliant stars of light (50-60 fibers per Glowby, with the longest fibers 14" long). A small, bow-shaped barrette (1.5" x 0.75") houses two small CR1220 batteries (BATTERIES INCLUDED) and a light source, which lights up the ends of the fibers.

GLOWBYS ARE REUSABLE - you can wear them again and again. Colors:White - Very bright, white light; white bow barretteBlue - Bright pure blue light; blue bow barretteHot Pink - Moderately bright, purplish-pink light; pink bow barretteRainbow - Cycles through all the colors of the spectrum; ~1 sec interval flash. Organization / 54 Uses for a giant binder clip. Crosspost from Jennie Fresa: How to cure chapped lips « Poor & Pretty. This is a crosspost from the Jennie Fresa blog. Even though there hasn’t been any snow this winter, we’ve certainly felt the effects of the season, especially on our lips! Dry, cracked, chapped lips are very common during cold months due to cold winds and the lack of moisture in the air.

Here are a few ways to keep your lips happy: 1. Drink water. 2. Upcycle: Pillowcase to top tutorial. Back-to-School Crafts. DIY : Scratcher Lotto Ticket. Webbed fingers. Altoids Mini Ice Hockey. Jar_pour_spout.jpg (JPEG Image, 629x299 pixels) Life to do list. Make shoelaces out of hair ties. Last week when my sister was gathering items for her daughter’s first dance class of the season, she realized that her tap shoes were missing their shoelaces (surely the latest victim of their kitten’s playful nature).

Make shoelaces out of hair ties

Because the shoes only had one pair of eyelets for the shoestrings to go through, they needed some VERY short shoelaces. My sister began a quest for short shoelaces that night, visiting every store in town. Making a Mosquito Trap. To keep mosquitoes from ruining a picnic or camping trip, it is nice to have an enticing trap to lure them away from you.

Making a Mosquito Trap

This guide is about making a mosquito trap. Solutions. Office, Workplace, Cubicle, Business Card Holder, Pen, Organizer, Stress Reliever, Coworker Gift. Office Oasis Who would have guessed that "going to your happy place" could mean that you're at work?

Office, Workplace, Cubicle, Business Card Holder, Pen, Organizer, Stress Reliever, Coworker Gift

With this meditative, desktop Zen garden, you can soothe away all your workday worries in style. Housed in an unvarnished wooden frame, the striking black sand invites you to create calming patterns in its surface using the included handmade brushed aluminum rake. Gifs-4.gif (GIF Image, 300x172 pixels) Button canvas shoes. I picked up a cute pair of blue shoes for Mini Me at my local Target this weekend.

Button canvas shoes

I wanted to jazz them up just a bit so I hit the craft room with the Plain Janes. Luckily for me, Chica had left her box of colorful buttons at my house… a plan was formed! I decided to replace the laces with buttons. I knew the look I wanted but initially had no idea how to make it work so the shoe still functioned. Some elastic, I thought, would do the trick. Then I laced up the shoes with the elastic, adding a button at each hole. Because the holes were so close together, I couldn’t use all big buttons. This project went really quickly. Image-38.jpg (JPEG Image, 670x866 pixels) - Scaled (77%) Image-14.jpg (JPEG Image, 680x489 pixels) Summer Fun: Microwaved Ivory Soap. When I came across the idea to microwave Ivory soap on The Cyber School Mom Diary’s fantastically comprehensive Supermegatotally Thrilladelic Not Bummer Summer list, I was instantly intrigued.

Summer Fun: Microwaved Ivory Soap

“What happens when you microwave Ivory soap?” I asked. “Try it and see!” Chrissi told me.