DIY Holiday Wreaths
Green Acorn Wreath Glue all those acorns in the backyard (minus the acorn tops) to a cheap straw wreath for instant holiday decor. Keep this beauty up year-round by painting it a different color every season.
DIY List Maker Notepad
Well, I am in charge of creative activities for my church's MOPS group and I decided this would be an easy and quick craft that everyone could do and use. I had to modify it a bit for time constraints as well as budget reasons. I like to keep the crafts around $2/person if possible.
Copper Plating and Etching Altoids Tins
UPDATE: There's some great information on this page and it's comments, but I've recently published a far more comprehensive article here: Etching Tins with Salt Water and Electricity With this project I wanted to try a number of new things: Magazine pages as cheap toner transfer mediaCopper electroplatingEtching Altoid tins with a salt water solution The copper plating met with mixed success, but the other two methods resulted in some nice pieces. Note: blue vitriol and muriatic acid are archaic names for copper sulfate and hydrochloric acid.
Too beautiful to be real? 16 surreal landscapes found on Earth
These bizarre locations may seem like a series of elaborate movie sets, but they are real destinations that you might want to see for yourself. Photo: Greg Mote/Flickr The Wave, Arizona, U.S. Photo: Shutterstock
Ultra Realistic Wood Sculptures by Randall Rosenthal
Randall Rosenthal is an amazing artist who creates incredible wooden sculptures. His wood creations are so realistic and so detailed that it is very easy to be mistaken. Look at this image below. It’s not paper. The interesting thing about these realistic looking sculptures is the fact that these are hand carved from just one block of wood. Using trompe l'oeil painting techniques, Randall Rosenthal makes his works look just like the real thing, by creating a three dimensional reality.
From Trash Pile to Fully Functional: the Rough Lamp from Compeixalaigua Design Studio is Anything But
Posted by erika rae | 18 Nov 2013 | Comments (2) Sometimes great designs come from leftover waste—look no further than Pothra planters, shipping pallet chairs and clothes hangers made of bike parts are three examples that prove it. We've got another design that's giving new life to old materials: Rough from Barcelona-based Compeixalaigua Design Studio is a clean update on the forgotten pile of wood strips it once was. The designers needed a way to light up their workspace and the perceived trash became a bright idea. The packing tape used to keep the sticks together became the inspiration behind the hanging strips that hold the light in place. The light's height can be adjusted using the hanging strips.
How to Make Your Christmas Lights Flash to Music: 12 Steps
Edit Article Edited by Horses4Ever, Andy Zhang, KnowItSome, Sysadmn and 66 others You've probably seen videos of Christmas lights that are synchronized to music. The single from the most-watched YouTube video of all time — PSY's "Gangnam Style" — has even made it into a Christmas lights extravaganza.
Home Decorating - Design And Ideas
If you enjoy in good wine and you didn’t trow away the old corks you can create interesting home gadgets that are both interesting and creative. Home decorating can be improved using one of the 25 home ideas with corks we presented here. You don’t need to spend money for your home, you can easily recycle and reuse the old corks for coasters, maths and much more. Stamps Thread Spool Corks Wreath
