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Solutions For Nuisance Dog Barking! How to Make Cheap Couch Covers. How to Be the Perfect Host in the 21st Century. 21 ways of turning pallets into unique pieces of furniture. HAIR COLOR HOW TO: Hair Chalking. Get ready to paint the town, I mean, your hair red....green, hot pink, or any color you like.

HAIR COLOR HOW TO: Hair Chalking

All temporary- to wash out at your next shampooing! Fun and creative, without the commitment! I'm gonna show you how to do HAIR CHALKING. This is not new, it's been around for a while, but I thought I'd do a "hair chalking" tutorial for you guys to inspire you and have fun with! So watch the tutorial below! I wouldn't normally put the red with the green and turquoise, but I wanted to see how the red would show up in my dark hair! WHAT YOU NEED: 1. 2. Now let's see how it's done: TIPS: *The chalk might come off on your shirt- you can try misting the hair with hair spray to seal it in even more. I still cannot believe how how well this colored my hair!

It is so fun! And if you sleep in it- wait til you see how pretty your pillowcase looks in the morning! Post below the pictures of your "hair chalking" or tweet them to me, I'd love to see!!! Turquoise hair tips, your kandee. Make It Right® DIY: Generate Your Own Electricity. Do It Yourself A generator is simply a device that converts mechanical energy (itself derived from coal, oil, natural gas, wind, water, nuclear reactions or other sources) into electrical energy.

DIY: Generate Your Own Electricity

Here, we describe how to use readily available materials to make a simple generator. Although it will only be powerful enough to light a small torch bulb, it works on the same basic principles as the power station generators that supply domestic electricity. How a generator works When an electric current flows through a wire, it generates a three-dimensional magnetic force field around the wire, similar to that surrounding a bar magnet. Copyrighted image Credit: Used with permission Two-dimensional representation of the magnetic field around a bar magnet. The simplest generator consists of just a coil of wire and a bar magnet. This method of generating electricity, called induction, was discovered by Michael Faraday in 1831. 24 Clever DIY Ways To Light Your Home. Life Hacks - how to video tutorials Life Hacks (Most viewed)

DIY & Home - how to video tutorials Green Living, Housekeeping, Life Hacks (Most viewed) Create Storage Space - 7 Ways to Create More Storage Space. Storage spaces are at a premium in most homes.

Create Storage Space - 7 Ways to Create More Storage Space

Have you ever heard someone complain, "I just have too many closets? " No, you haven't. Let's think outside the closet and create more storage space using the space already in your home. Here are several tried and true and easy tips to create more storage space. Toss stuff you no longer need through decluttering Use the best storage solutions (not the fancy ones) Photo / Rakku I'm sure you've seen some truly wacky storage solutions "As Seen on TV," but some storage solutions really do work. It helps create more space It streamlines your organization by grouping like items together It makes thing easier to find by creating a proper "home" That sounds good, right? Start using plastic storage containers Photo / The Container Store This one is really a no-brainer.

Tips: Label these containers! Maximize your use of prime real estate Photo / Martha Stewart Living Think about what you reach for most often. Think vertically Always label for easy retrieval Tip: