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Welcome to the wonderful world of creative recycling...Milomade gives discarded, unwanted items a new lease of life. t-shirt pom poms | Craftaholics Anonymous™ Learn how to turn old t-shirts into pom poms! T-shirt Pom Poms are so much more durable than tissue paper ones. And I think they look loads better! got an old tee or two {or 20!} Supplies t-shirts, 1 per pom pomscissorscardboard use round objects to trace circles onto cardboard to make 2 templates like those shown above. i used a roll of tape and my camera lens cap…. the diameter of the outer circle is 6.5″ and the diameter of the inner circle is 2.5″. you can play around with different template sizes to get different sized pom poms. cut your t-shirt into 1/2″ strips. i only used from the arm pits down on each shirt. . take one strip and one template and place strips as shown close to the inner circle. sandwich the strip by putting the other template on top. take a fabric strip and place on cardboard with the end even with the outer edge. wind around the template as shown. pull the strip tightly so that it stretches the material. when you get to the end of the strip….

Creative and Cool Ways to Reuse Old Stuff. We aren't sure what you do with your old newspapers, bulbs, plastic and glass bottles and many other things? Here are some really cool and creative ideas of how to reuse them. Ways To Reuse Bottles: Cool and interesting ways to reuse bottles. Here are some more of these - link: 1| 2. Plastic Bottle Lamp: Creation of designer Shelley Spicuzza. Glass Bottle Chandelier: Made from stainless steel and glass bottles, its about sixty cm in length and uses a maximum 40 watt light bulb. Bottle Coatrack: It comes with a set of four clasps. Vases: Simple to look but it has an attraction and appeal of its own. Plastic Bottle House: This house measures 60 sq meter, built over a period of five years using 13,500 plastic bottles. Soda Bottle Raft: Plastic Bottle Chandeliers: Ways to reuse Old Light Bulbs: Well what can be said, after all these are just too creative - link. Light Bulb Planter: Light Bulb Window Vase: Credit Card Art - Mosaic: This interesting looking work of art is created using credit cards.

Photo Rag Quilt - Made with Printed Treasures Printable Fabric Home | What's New? | Pictures | Scrapbook | Recipes | Fonts | Our Wedding | Contact Info Please click the images to view larger versions! I had so much fun making my first rag quilt, I immediately had to start another one. And I had just the project in mind! Several years ago I was browsing through a craft store when I came across printable fabric. I picked out coordinating fabric to match our living room so I could snuggle under the new photo quilt and watch movies. ;) Miley and Howie think the new blanket is snuggly soft. ;) Rag Quilt Instructions Home | What's New? garden therapy » A Green Guide to Natural Beauty + Mango Citrus Body Butter Recipe It’s time to review our very first Garden Therapy Book Club book, A Green Guide to Natural Beauty: 35 step-by-step projects for homemade beauty by Karen Gilbert. There are many different types of books we will be looking at in Book Club, but when the book is DIY or project-based, then the best way to test it out is to give the projects a try. As the title suggests, A Green Guide to Natural Beauty boasts 35 different natural beauty projects, which made it very appealing given that I’ve been aiming to make as many of my bath and body products as I can. As part of the Natural Skincare Series I’ve shared recipes and tutorials for soap, scrubs, and bath products all made with natural ingredients, and where possible ingredients from my garden. First and foremost this book is beautiful. The photography is stunning and while those who love lots of bright colour may find the pages a tad on the beige side. Apricot Face Scrub Recipe p. 60 Review 2/5 Mango Citrus Body Butter p. 78 Ingredients: Equipment

the LIFE LESSONS blog {things crafty, thrifty, family, yummy & rambly): Lesson# 144 The Best Gifts are Homemade {Natural Chapstick} After searching FAR AND WIDE for an awesome Christmas gift for my girlfriends this year... I finally landed on the best gift project I'm made thus far. I mean, this is way better than painted frames, decorated mugs and puff painted totes. Homemade Natural Chapstick (because who needs another crocheted tissue box cover?) 1.5 oz beeswax (1 and a half tablets) 6 vitamin E capsules 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil (2=more rigid, 3=softer) 2-3 teaspoons of coconut oil 2-3 teaspoons of cocoa butter 25-30 empty chap stick tubes OR 15 lip balm containers DIRECTIONS 1. Where I found my ingredients: Organic olive oil (local health food store) Organic coconut oil (local health food store) Vitamin E tablets (local health food store) Empty chap stick tubes (ebay and a few pill boxes) clear printer labels (walmart) Aren't they adorable? Be Brave and EXPERIMENT! Dress 'em Up! Cost per Tube The total cost I think was around $1 per tube, but I have seriously 75 percent of all my ingredients left!

Handmade Salt Pouches For The Shower Or Bath I love salt scrubs, especially this time of year when I want to slough off the dead skin from winter, and I equally love bath salts for the skin softening ingredients in them – but more often than not I find myself in the shower. These pouches are perfect for combining both bath salt and salt scrub into an exfoliating pouch I can bring into the shower, and they are simple to make. You can go a few different routes when making these so play around with your recipes and find your favorite. I made these for my mom for Mother’s Day so I added a few things for specific reasons. 1 cup sea salt – Coarse because it holds up better in the water for exfoliating1 cup Epsom salt – Anti-inflammatory, skin softener among other things1 cup powdered milk – Skin conditioner, gentle exfoliate1 cup baking soda – My mom has hard water, this will soften it15 drops of Peppermint essential oil – She is up before dawn and needs a pick-me-up A few different ideas for a mix: Start with 6 cheap washcloths.

How to make gift bags from newspaper When I bought something at a store recently, the clerk handed me my purchase in a bag made from a newspaper. I liked it very much and had to make some more—thus today's DIY recycled newspaper project: gift bags made from the Wall Street Journal. You can vary the dimensions, of course, but here's what I used to create a bag that's 5" tall, 4.5" wide, and 3" deep. Stack two sheets of newspaper on top of each other. Cut out a rectangle that's 15.5" wide and 8.25" tall. Fold a flap 1.25" down from the top. Cut two pieces of cardstock or chipboard to 4.25" x 1", then glue them on the widest two panels just under the top fold. Put glue on the outside of the 0.5" tab and bring the left-most panel over to form the body of the bag, aligning the cut edge of the panel with the folded edge of the flap. Upend the bag so the 2" flap is now up. Put glue on both flaps and fold them inward to form the bottom of the bag.

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