Book Cover Welcome to The Southern Institute, I'm so glad you're here! Make sure you stay in the know... subscribe to our newsletter! Today is going to be fun! We have another guest with us who is sharing a great project! Larissa from mmmcrafts is visiting. Gotta get some of those shoes! Well, hello Southern Institutioners! So a bit about me. Make a Mini Memo Book Cover I love these inexpensive little 3.25 x 4.5 inch composition books. ), usually for less than a dollar US each. So here’s how to pretty them up with a nice re-usable cover. You’ll need: this templateprinterletter sized card stockscrap of decorative papercraft kniferuler glue (I used Fabri-Tac)optional bradoptional embroidery floss 1) First step is to print the template at actual size on the back of the card stock. 2) Use the provided spine pattern to trace and cut out a spine from a scrap of decorative paper. It will be a bit longer than the cover, so it will overlap nicely when you glue it on and it is a cinch to get it centered: There!
Cute Notebook just a notebook but it's all hopped up on cuteness. simple fun notebooks from wal-mart....with many many ribbons tied to the side. that's it. this is the mysterious crayon project! using old crayons...i made new ones. (you can make ice or bake in them too.) first break the crayons up and put the pieces into the shapes on the trays. set the silicone trays on a cookie sheet for stability. preheat your oven to 250-ish. put sheet of trays into the warm oven and check at 10 minutes. when all the crayons pieces have become liquid....they are done! remove the sheet from the oven and let cool for at least an hour...or 3 or 4. the liquid wax was beautiful! i was loving it! i wanted to pour it all over something and paint with it. maybe another time.... each letter crayon is about 2 inches tall. they are still crayons.... just now instead of being dull shaped old crayons in the bottom of the box they are adorable bright alphabet shapes. i love them. and now for the new obsession. it's SO EXCITING!!! and voila!
Maitri Libellule at Dragonfly Cottage... Photo Tile Coasters Last Christmas I almost had a breakdown... We had just moved in to our home the month before, but I didn't want to let that prevent us from having the holliest jolliest Christmas. My intentions were good. I wanted to make Christmas special for everyone, but I learned the hard way that I should have been planning ahead!! And that's how it happened. Well, with this project I created an anniversary gift AND a Christmas gift. While I was in Utah, my sweet cousin Michelle showed me a couple of projects using resin. Here's how I made these photo coasters... I started out with a trip to Home Depot. Next, I ordered some photos. Only 13 cents a print at Costco! I used a regular old Elmer's glue stick to paste each picture onto the tiles. I won't give a full tutorial on using resin because each product is a little different. After mixing the resin with the hardener, I just poured it on! Then it took them a full 24 hours to harden up! All done! Now these are stinkin' cute!! Happy weekend!
Printable Day Planners Free printable planners. I'm over the moon to share this homemade gift idea with you. Free printable weekly planners, free printable day planners ...what a gift! No businessperson?! How about free printable wedding planners? We thank M. Free Printable Day PlannersOne Stop Info Center Get a binder, print the pages and voila! Would like to do more? The organize has calendars, planner pages, phone numbers and so on. Don't forget the food - menu planners. Free printable monthly planners make it easy to keep organized. "When you can't give a gift of EXTRA TIME,then a personal organizer is as close as you can get!" How To Use Free Planners? Each life organizer gift will be unique - a binder with divider sections. * Telephone and message section * Divider for activities * Home management * Finances * Medical info * Personal info, like birthday reminders, size charts and gift lists As the information can always be added, organizers become unique as the owner. Ho To Make Free Printable Weekly Planners
Maitri Libellule (periwinklenotes) Recycled magazine coasters My latest after-dinner-while-watching-TV project: woven coasters made from magazine pages. To make a coaster like the green one above: 1. Tear out 6 magazine pages. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Open Education and Bio380 lecture on Neanderthals This academic year I have set myself the goal of making all my lecture available for all, in the public domain, via YouTube and maybe also Slideshare. The technical side of doing this is fairly straightforward (capture a screen movie via QuickTime), but the major hassle is ensuring and documenting permissions for all images. In my first attempt, I quickly realised that putting this information on the same slides as the images led to cluttered chaos, so I have piled them all up at the end of the talk. It is unclear to me what the rules are about using material from published papers, but cannot see how authors would not want students to know about their work. So, in general, I am proceeding along the course of it is easier to apologise afterwards rather than ask permission in advance. If anyone objects to anything I have done, let me know and I will remove the offending material from the public domain. Slidecast via YouTubeSlides via Slideshare
Maitri's Heart Not a Scrapbook Scrap-booking (is there such a verb?) seems so forced, and well, last-century. Next time you have a lot of pictures to work with, why not make a little booklet? This makes a nice souvenir of a special day or trip, and is a wonderful, small gift. Heres how: In your favorite page layout program, divide the page into quarters. Layout the pictures following the guidelines shown above. Print out the first page of your booklet, and put the page back into your printer to print on the backside. Fold your double-sided page in both directions, as shown. You can continue to add pages, but you must add them in sequences of eight. All the photographs in this tutorial are courtesy of the talented photographer Jack_G, and are available through a Creative Commons license. Like this: Like Loading...