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Tutorial: Vino Drinking Glass Coasters!

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These coasters set the FUN inwards functional!  Flannel industrial plant best for this project, but experience gratuitous to substitute whatever 100% cotton fiber textile of your choice. Tutorial is for 4 coasters.   You volition need: Either 1/2 yard of flannel textile or 1/3 yard EACH of two flannel fabrics washed in addition to ironed Coordinating thread Old CD or Circle Template Cardstock Pen Scissors Chopstick, retractable pen, Popsicle stick or anything else that volition help circular out the within curves  Iron  1. Print out this Circle Template or detect an former CD, a pen in addition to some strong paper/cardboard. Spend a few minutes reminiscing nearly the songs you lot used to call to during freshman year. Remember Counting Crow's "Long December"? After reminiscing, usage the CD to describe a circle on the strong paper. Cut out the circle. Congratulations, you lot guide maintain ma

Frozen Balloon Decorations

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Did you lot run across the photograph tutorial of how to brand colored H2O ice balloons on Pinterest? The flick doesn't atomic number 82 to a spider web address :-(. It worked!! Just add together a few drops of nutrient coloring into the balloon, claw the rima oris of the the balloon or together with hence your faucet, check tightly together with fill upward amongst water. Knot the end. Set exterior (in freezing weather--Minnesota is a non bad identify for this!) for two days. Set it on difficult snow. If you lot laid upward it into soft snow, it'll sink inwards together with the snowfall volition act equally an insulator instead of a freezer. See pic below: The H2O didn't freeze. But these would brand beautiful outdoor votives. Does anyone inwards your identify unit of measurement convey a wintertime birthday? Instead of hanging balloons outside, purpose these to decorate the edges of your driveway!

Diy Newspaper Christmas Ornaments

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It's fun together with slowly to brand these traditional newspaper ornaments, together with at that topographic point are lots of tutorials out there. I posted a how-to inwards 2006 together with decided to brand to a greater extent than for my tree this year. This fourth dimension I didn't gum these modules into a star (which looks great; reckon the former post). I similar them every bit uncomplicated private ornaments, too. To brand cutting to a greater extent than uniform, here's the template I drew. Large ornaments Small ornaments Print out a page together with cutting along the inner lines amongst an X-acto knife. (I freehand it.) Then cutting out the squares. Bend the middle flaps inward. Moving outward from the center, curvature the adjacent duad of flaps roughly to encounter on the reverse side. Secure them amongst gum or tape. Keep alternating the administration of the flaps until each duad is joined. If you lot like, gum the points of vi orname

Make A Tiny Origami Santa

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I made wee origami Santas. Each guy is folded from 2 1 1/2" squares of cherry paper. Have the kids tuck i within your Christmas cards or stick them onto gift tags. Make them dark-green too they could hold upward elves. Learn how to brand these tardily origami Santas right hither at HoikuAkira . The instructions are inward Japanese, but I but followed the photos. Google interpret didn't add together much value; the pictures were plenty to become the project done. (Oops! Looks similar that link stopped working. This YouTube video looks similar.)

Fringed Tabular Array Runner Tutorial

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Do you lot convey 2 hours to waste matter as well as a cervix + dorsum you'd similar to pose a few knots into? Well, this projection was tailor-made for you! I've fringed a few tabular array runners. Every unmarried time, virtually half-way through, I wonder why the heck I decided to fringe the darn affair instead using a uncomplicated (fast!) folded hem.  But the fringe is then pretty ! You volition need: 100% Cotton cloth inwards the dimensions of your choice Thread Sewing Machine Iron Cutting Mat + Rotary Cutter Thread Puller Look at the tabular array you're making the runner for. Decide if you'd similar the runner to hang off the brusk ends as well as how broad you'd prefer it to be. My tabular array is 86" x 40". I chose dimensions of 70" x 13" for the tabular array runner. While actually broad runners tin hold out visually appealing, the onetime dimensions worked improve for the specific cloth

Pine Cone Clumps

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Pine Cone Clumps.  Fancy name, right? I aim to please.  These volition add together a fighting of vacation flare to wreaths, ornaments, presents, cards or napkin rings   You tin either purchase pino cones or scavenge inwards the peachy outdoors. If you lot scavenge, soak the cones overnight inwards H2O alongside a splash of bleach. Dry thoroughly earlier using. Spray alongside an acrylic sealer. Supplies: Pine Cones Floral Wire Wire Cutter Use a wire cutter to snip off a four inch slice of wire (if you're using tiny cones. Cut a longer slice for larger cones). The wire is from Walmart, $3/spool. Bend the halt of the wire merely about your finger. It should expect similar a candy cane. Place the crook of the candy cane into the bottom department of the cone. How it should expect from the bottom:   Push the brusque halt of the wire (the crook) into the cone. Wrap the long halt of the wire i time merely about the co

Cinnamon Stick Stars

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Mmmm . . . this arts and crafts smells heavenly! It was inspired past times the Bachman's Birch Branch Stars that appeared inwards the Ideas House a yoke of years ago. You volition need: 5 Cinnamon Sticks 8 to x pieces of Yarn (each approx. eighteen inches long) Small pinecones (optional) Floral wire (optional) 1 in addition to 2. Buy a parcel of cinnamon sticks. I establish some at Cub Foods for $1/package. xv sticks per package. Find some quondam yarn or twine. This is a dark-green in addition to white mixture I bought at Wally World. Cut a slice some eighteen inches long. This is non an exact science! 3. Tie the yarn about ii sticks close 1/2 inch from the cease of the sticks.  Leave a 2 inch tail on 1 cease of the yarn. This should exit you lot amongst 1 long tail in addition to 1 brusk tail. Wind the long tail of yarn about the sticks. Around in addition to about nosotros go. Keep going about until the tails of yarn are close

Cheap Tabular Array Makeover

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Months agone nosotros bought a $10 tabular array via Craigslist to concord upwards a light inwards the invitee bedroom. It was inwards distressing shape: So I decided to laissez passer on it a quick pigment labor to motion into expect to a greater extent than fun. Sort of Jonathan Adler-esque, except for the curvy base of operations that doesn't build much feel amongst the geometric blueprint I pose on it. But when a daughter wants diamonds, she wants diamonds. I'd heard close adding Floetrol to latex pigment to grade out the brush marks in addition to asked my local Ace Hardware guy close it. He said it was an option, exactly instead recommended door in addition to cabinet paint for my niggling job. It already has an additive like to Floetrol inwards it to polish out brushstrokes. It's latex, making cleanup easy, exactly it doesn't accept the stickiness that latex sometimes does. (Which from experience, I've learned tin endure a pain. I painted latex on som