Light Bulb Vase So, I finally just changed all the burnt out light bulbs in my house. So now my left with old light bulbs and being the environmentalist I am, I do not want to throw them out. I want to make art with them! So I was looking at different crafts and I came across this vase. I was ready to make it on the spot but sadly I do not have all the materials, so I decided to share it with all of you! What You Will Need: A clear incandescent light bulb (only use an incandescent bulb.
How To Make a Ladybug Feeder & Attract Them to Your Garden Last week, I showed how you can make natural pesticides for your plants. While these sprays pose less risk than the toxic ones, they also rid your plant of beneficial insects like the ladybug. Unlike most pesky bugs that you want to purge from your garden, ladybugs live up to their cute little name. They pose no harm and are actually beneficial to your plants by feasting on a few of your plant's nemeses such as aphids, mealybugs, leaf hoppers, scales and mites. Along with insects, ladybugs also look for pollen for a food source, so there are numerous plants you can grow to help attract them. If you're still having trouble attracting the little buggers into your garden, you might want to consider buying ladybugs to release in your garden. When it comes time to release them into your garden, make sure you follow the instructions that come with the ladybugs to help boost your chances that they'll want to make your garden their home. What You Need ToolsSawDrillPencilRuler Instructions 1. 2.
Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce Recipe This hot fudge sauce was 100% impromptu and perhaps one of the best decisions that I have ever made at 9:45pm on a random Saturday night. This past Saturday my Chief Culinary Consultant was enjoying some guy time golfing and going to a baseball game, so I spent some quality time with my mom. My first instinct was to see if there were any chick flicks OnDemand. After a quick search, I realized that I forgot that 400+ channels yield virtually nothing in the good movie department. When I started poking around for a recipe, I obviously wanted something that could be made with ingredients I already had in the house. It’s rich, smooth, and the absolute perfect texture for pouring over ice cream. Once you make this hot fudge sauce you’re going to want to hoard it, hide it in the back of the refrigerator so no one can find it, and only eat it when alone.
Rope Bowls so it's been a while since i've posted anything remotely crafty lately...i suppose i must be getting lazy (technically lazy-er). anyway, i saw this cute bowl on craftgawker over the weekend so i decided to make my own-with my own tutorial 'cause i need the practice anyway right? anyway, it's a pretty simple process, it's actually really similar to my recycle magazine bowl but with rope instead. basically just glue, wrap, glue, wrap, etc, etc. all you need is a hot glue gun and rope. i got my rope for $2-it's 50 ft, 1/4 inch, manila rope (i almost went with the sisal but i liked the color of the manila more). start wrapping in a circular motion to form the base. if you plan on making several i might consider making all the bases first just to make sure they're the same size. when i made my second i tried to make it the same size...which of course, it isn't. but that could just be the fact that i can almost never make the same thing twice... making one bowl took me about an hour...ish?
You Can Do It! First-Time Vegetable Gardening for the Black-Thumbed Some of you may feel like no matter what you try to grow, it dies. Too much water, not enough water, too much sun, too much shade, or… it just dies for no reason at all. This has been my experience with gardening for a long time, and when I tried to grow a vegetable garden for a few years in a row, it was a total disaster. I fought a never-ending battle with weeds — and lost. Bugs ate more vegetables than I did those summers, and "working in the garden" involved lots of standing and squinting, hands on hips, uttering curse words under my breath. 2. Sunset has an excellent tutorial on building a raised bed; the final project is about 8' x 4' and costs about $175 to build yourself. 3. 4. For your first garden, get some easy wins; get some advice from locals on what works, and stick with that! 5. 6. Now that our little raised bed is next to our patio, just a few mere feet from our outdoor spigot, we have a simple, easy-to-keep-up-with watering plan. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Candy Bar Card - Repeat Crafter Me Need a last minute Valentine’s Day idea for your honey? How about a candy bar card! I remember doing these when I was younger. There are so many different candy bars you could include in your note and this doesn’t necessarily have to be for Valentine’s Day. You could make one for graduation, Father’s Day, Birthdays or many other occasions! I especially love THIS ONE. My boys had fun helping me raid the candy bar aisle at Walgreens. I wanted it to start by saying “To my Big Hunk” but I couldn’t find a Big Hunk candy bar And I was going to end it with “I hope you find this card funny, love always your Bit-O-Honey” but I couldn’t find a Bit-O-Honey bar either. Some other ideas would be: “Our life is a Symphony” (using chocolate Symphony bar) “There are many Riesens why I love you” (using Riesen candies) “I love you Now and Later” (using Now and Laters) “There is no one on Earth, Mars or in the Milky Way that is better than you!” Feel free to list some of your ideas in the comments!
Clothespin Bowls Yeah, I know. No big whoop. However …. And once you have that you can form it into this … Clothespin Fruit Bowl Or you can spiral it and use it like this … A Tabletop Sculpture Or stack the bowl up a bit and have … A Sculptural Bowl Or just form it into whatever shape you want and lay it on a table or buffet. So by now you have the idea that you can do just about anything you want with this method. Total cost of this project? I’ve used just over 9 feet of this hot pink wire which I bought for a total of $7 at the hardware store. If you don’t like the pink wire you can give it a quick coat of paint. I used 220 clothespins. If you happen to have some standard electical wire around, you can use that too. To make it even easier to form your project into the shape you want, squish your clothespins together as tightly as you can. If you come up with a bowl shape you absolutely love and don’t want to lose, just dot a few beads of hot glue around the edges to hold it together.
How To Drill Holes in Plant Pots Previous image Next image Sometimes the planters we like don't come with drainage holes. I'm sure we all have them: plant pots sans drainage hole(s). What You Need MaterialsA clean planter in need of a drainage holeSmall amount of waterTarp (optional) ToolsDrill, fully charged (mine is a hammer drill)Diamond hole saw kit (can be purchased at Home Depot or other online retailers for around $20)Hammer Instructions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Additional Notes: You may want to do this on a tarp, a piece of old cardboard or something else that can't be damaged. The diamond hole saw kit was not with the rest of the drill bits in the tool section of the hardware store. (Images: Michelle Chin)