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This to That (Glue Advice) Delightful country cookin': homemade air freshener. "Don't you get fresh with me, ya hear!

delightful country cookin': homemade air freshener

" Oh, I love it when adults (especially grandparents) say that to little kids. What does it mean exactly? Does it mean we'd rather children get dirty with us? Haha...who knows? Today, I'm going to ask you to actually get fresh with me. How to Weave Basket. Basket weaving hasn’t been so easy with this method: weave around a cardboard frame.

How to Weave Basket

Originally, I saw this method in a Japanese craft magazine, I searched around for the template but can’t find it any where locally or online. So, I built it based on my dimension. Get the tutorial on how to make this easy woven basket and download the templates to try it out after this jump: I would say that this is a wonderful idea to make basket, with this method and concept, basically you can build a lot of shapes and sizes that you want.

Here, I demo it with 3 shapes: triangle, round and square, but you can come out with rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon & even octagon with just a little tweak in the design. The height can be modified to suit your preference. Material: 1. Download the basket weaving template (consist of triangle, round and square) in pdf format. After tracing the template on the thick cardboard, use a pair of strong and sharp scissors to cut the template out. Tutorials by Lee. Homemade Light Box for Product Photography » StudioLighting.net. The object of product photography is to show details of an object clearly.

Homemade Light Box for Product Photography » StudioLighting.net

Lighting an object well brings out details and provides pleasing highlights. One method for uniformly lighting small objects is to surround the object in a light box. The following article describes the process for making your own lightbox for small object photography. From start to finish this project should take no longer than 30 minutes. Materials Foam Board You'll need 5 sheets of foam board, also called foam core or foam poster board. White Tape The tape I'm using is between 1" and 2" wide white masking tape. Lamp / Light Bulbs I'm using shop lights from Home Depot / Lowe's. Other You'll need a razor knife and a straight edge.

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Paper Crafts. Holiday Crafts. Furniture & DIY. Marble magnets. I finally gave in and made marble magnets.

marble magnets

Not surprisingly they are quite fun, smooshing the glue out to make a perfect little magnified image is very satisfying. Here, in order of appearance, are the places I referenced: paper candy instructions with pictures (this is the first place I saw this project) dogmestic with instructions and pictures photogeek pictures ugly green chair cute ladybug magnets – pictures with packaging threads at Glitter:onetwothree I bought all of these supplies at Michael’s, including the glue I went back for since I got the wrong kind to start with. I bought 1/2″ and 3/4″ round (strong) magnets (in with the frames, near the corks); 1/2″ and 3/4″ clear flat glass marbles (in the fake flowers aisle, check the mosaics section too); silicon sealer made by the Crazy Glue people (in the glue aisle). These are great packaged in those Altoid-sized tins, I’ve seen them in office/gift shops like that.

Soap Making Recipes and Tutorials. CraftPOP.com Arts and Crafts Links Directory: Main.