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Www.servicecentral.com. How to Make Your Own Cleaning Products - DIY Environmentally Friendly Cleaning Products. Glass Cleaner • 2 cups water • 1/2 cup white or cider vinegar • 1/4 cup rubbing alcohol (70 percent concentration)• 1 to 2 drops of orange essential oil, which gives the solution a lovely smell (optional) Great for: Windows and mirrors How to use: Combine ingredients and store in a spray bottle.

How to Make Your Own Cleaning Products - DIY Environmentally Friendly Cleaning Products

Spray some solution on a paper towel or soft cloth first, then on the glass. To get smudge-free glass, rub vertically on one side and horizontally on the other. How to grow herbs indoors this winter. How to make a cheap, awesome, professional Curtain Rod. First off, thank you so much for being so kind about my new curtains in the dining room!

How to make a cheap, awesome, professional Curtain Rod

I am taken aback daily by how many genuinely nice people there are in this blogging community. Thank you for loving the curtains along with me, and also thank you for just being plain ol’ nice. Now, shall we get down to bid-ness? Let’s talk Curtain Rods. Home Decor Tips, Infographics & Cheat Sheets. You guys seemed to love my upholstery yardage cheat sheet so today I’m sharing the rest of my collection of interior design cheat sheets and infographics.

Home Decor Tips, Infographics & Cheat Sheets

Some give you hard and fast rules, others function as design “glossaries”. Interior design pros love to say “there are no rules” when it comes making design decisions for your home. Maybe that’s true when you’re a professional and the decisions you make come from a place of knowledge and years of experience about what just works. But when you’re out there shopping on your own, spending hard earned money on products for your home, isn’t it nice to have some guidelines? First up – dining table seating capacities. How big should your dining room area rug be? Living room area rugs should ideally accommodate all furniture in a room. When it comes to area rugs in the bedroom, there are a few options. Upholstered headboard shapes explained. Thomas Paul Dahlia Flowers. Get a cheap shelf from Ikea. Attach a mirror and ... 52 Weeks Project.

RIT Dye Tutorial. It happens to me every year.

RIT Dye Tutorial

The second spring hits, I’m standing in front of my closet going, I am so sick of all my clothes, if I see that shirt again I’ll throw up, but I don’t have any money for new stuff, I’M SO TIRED OF EVERYTHING I OWN. You know that feeling? Let’s kill it with instant-wardrobe-transformer (aka RIT dye). RIT is a brand of clothing dye that’s been around since the 1930s. It turns drab-colored clothes and accessories into bright works of art, and I am obsessed with it. To these! And it’s not even hard. Now, there are other kinds of clothing dye out there, but I chose RIT because it’s got simple instructions on the back of the package, it costs about $3 per box, and you can find it almost everywhere in the U.S. 41 Easy Things To Do With Mason Jars. Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Crafty - 31 Pics. Make-up Magnet Board.

We all know with craft blogs that original ideas are often hard to come by, we find ideas we love and make them our own but we didn't come up with the idea ourselves.

Make-up Magnet Board

How To Make Bubble Paper/Art. Hand me a paintbrush and a piece of paper, and I’ll start to hyperventilate.

How To Make Bubble Paper/Art

52 Weeks Project. DIY Braided Bead Bracelet. It’s been awhile since our last bracelet DIY.

DIY Braided Bead Bracelet

I don’t know about you, but our wrists have been begging for another colorful addition for months now. So after playing with some materials that were already on hand, we’ve created a tutorial for a braided bead bracelet, which is a not so distant cousin of the hex nut and wrap bracelet. Because honestly, you can never have too many . . . You’ll need: Cut the waxed linen cord into a 26″ and 19″ piece. Tie a knot about half an inch down from the loops. Start braiding the strands. Push the bead against the base of the braid, and cross the left strand over the middle. Keep a finger at the base of the braid, holding the beads in their place and keeping the braid tight. Finish the bracelet with another inch of braided cord, measuring it against the wrist. Thread on a two hole button – two strands through one hole and one strand through another. Trim the end. Your bracelet is finished! (all images by HonestlyWTF)

46 Ideas For DIY Jewelry You'll Actually Want To Wear. Drab to fab! 5 DIY ideas for t-shirt remakes. Posted by ScrapHacker.com on tisdag, juni 5, 2012 · 5 Comments With temperatures rising so is the annual epidemic of fashion fever, making many of us feverishly hit the high street (although our wardrobes are already stuffed full…).

Drab to fab! 5 DIY ideas for t-shirt remakes

This post celebrates the power of re-invention of a wardrobe staple – old t-shirts.