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Willow Trellises For Your Floppy Plants
These supports will work for any plants that tend to flop over as they grow. Natural Supports As my peonies were emerging from the ground this spring, I discovered the old wire cages I had been using as supports were bent out of shape and rusty.
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How to Make a Twig Trug
Tags step-by-step instructions Choose a drill bit that is slightly smaller than the nail you're using, and drill less than the length of the nail so it will fit snugly. (What better excuse to make another?) With a twig trug under your belt, itOs fun to...
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Handcrafted Rustic Wire Basket
Step 5 The basket could be complete here, but if the ends of the wires wrapped around the base of the rebar chair are still poking out, you can wrap yarn or tape around the edges, being sure to cover up each piece of protruding wire.
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How to Make a Gourd Bowl
Tools gloves safety glasses dust mask towel copper pot scrubber hammer small nail twine pencil hand drill keyhole saw pottery tool, grapefruit spoon, dull paring knife or putty knife 60-grit sandpaper paintbrush (optional) scissors large needle and needle...
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Customize Your Own Homemade Cotton Paper
Carefully lift up on one edge of the screen to release the paper onto the couching cloth. For writing with ink, I used a gelatin size. Carefully flip the screen over onto the couching cloth, using a steady movement so the paper doesn't wrinkle.
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Wheatgrass Egg Cups
Patricia Lehnhardt organic wheat berries—about 1 tablespoon per cup potting soil water tea cups and saucers, champagne glasses, or small bowls stones or glass pebbles Step 1 Place the wheat berries in a bowl and cover with water.
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Mint Chocolate Lip Balm
Sunflower or olive oil 1/2 T. Add the peppermint essential oil, and stir again. This recipe makes enough to fill six or seven tubes. You can create customized lip-balm labels using PicMonkey , a free online photo and design program.
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DIY Hip Basket for Harvesting
Step 5 On the last round, you'll add the loops for wearing it on your hip. Continue adding rounds of rope until the basket is as tall as you like. Coil the raffia-wrapped rope and run the needle through the unwrapped end of the rope and pull tight to...
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Making Soap With Kids At Home
Getting these three sessions alone took me about six months. They'll say things like, “That one's mine. The teenager and I man the lye solution, carefully monitoring its temperature and making sure the fumes are vented.
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Easy Plastic Appliques In Less Than 2 Minutes
Step 2 Emily Lawrence Mendoza Emily Lawrence Mendoza Preheat your iron to the medium-low, no-steam setting. Cover up spotted kitchen towels and reuse plastic shopping bags with this quick and simple patching method.
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8 Gift Wrapping Ideas Inspired By Herbs
Choose herbs that make delicious tea, such as mint, chamomile, bee balm or lemon balm. Get the Look: Wrap your box with brown kraft paper and glue an inexpensive woven placemat on the front and back of the package.
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Decorate Easter Eggs With Farm-Made Dyes
Remove the bands to reveal the pattern. The resulting eggs might not be as bright and shiny as you find by artificial means, but are seductive in their earthiness and charm. Chocolate eggs, plastic eggs filled with small gifts, and tiny plastic straw...
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2-Minute Fabric Pumpkins
Step 6 Push the stems of your leaves into the center next to you paper stem. Continue stuffing the fabric being care full to bunch and pleat the fabric all the way around. « More of The Craft Hub » Tags autumn , craft , decor , decoration , fall , Lists...
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Making Mud Cloth
I'd pick up the shards that formed and made mud pies—probably my first attempt at cooking. The traditional Bogolanfini is designed with symbolism, each cloth telling the story of the community.
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5 Natural Ink Recipes
Strain out the flowers. General Instructions Patricia Lehnhardt In the recipes, we're producing only a small amount of ink—about 3 or 4 ounces—so it doesn't take a lot of plant material or time, leaving you room to experiment with a lot of different...
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Papier-Mache Bowls For Mother\'s Day
Step 6 Patricia Lehnhardt Use a damp paper towel to wipe off the excess paste when you're finished. Brush on a coat of gesso and allow it to dry overnight. When I was young, Sunday afternoons were devoted to learning a new craft.
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Fragrant & Fresh Ginger Soap Bars
Find it on sale at Amazon , Barnes and Noble and wherever books are sold. Step 4 Stir in additional add-ins with a toothpick. Amy Renea This article was excerpted from Crafting With Nature by Amy Renea.
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Wash Your Hair With Homemade Shampoo Bars
Make sure the bottle says “sodium hydroxide” and nothing else. Some soap makers like to stir a few times during the process, while others don't disturb it at all. If you hear big clumps bumping around inside, the lye is past its prime and won't measure...
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Coconut Honey Balm
This simple balm contains just three ingredients and is perfect for soothing dry, scraped or irritated skin. Place the pan over a medium-low burner until the beeswax has melted. Stir thoroughly again for a few minutes.
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Herb Wreaths: Useful Culinary Decor
Step 4 Repeat the process until the entire frame is filled. A host is never more deserving of a gift than during the holidays. Tips for Use: This wreath goes really well in a kitchen, where bits of the herbs can be plucked from it and used for cooking.
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Gardener\'s Hand Cream
Cocoa butter is too hard for this no-melt recipe and coconut oil is too soft. Substitutions and Tips Feel free to play with this recipe to make it your own. Add the sunflower oil and corn starch then beat again until fully incorporated.
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DIY Fabric Paints From Natural Materials
Hang to dry overnight. After several days, the mixture will dry and crack and easily be scraped off the cardboard. This is plenty for the four napkins I made. Deriving the pigment from a plant to make paint is not the quickest way to add color and design...
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How To Make Goat-Milk Soap
If your soap won't immediately separate from the molds, place them somewhere cold for about two hours. Don't heat the mixture above 230 F or it will splatter. (Optional) After tracing is the only time you can add fragrances or colorants.
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5 No-Chemical Fly Repellent Solutions
Be sure to spot test the solution before applying liberally as vinegar can damage some materials such as marble, resulting in fading, bleaching, peeling and blistering. Reapply as needed.
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Why Do We Use Lye In Soap?
Cool completely and then strain. The bars that don't use lye rely upon a hodgepodge of synthetic detergents, such as sodium laureth sulfate, to produce suds and are not considered true soaps.
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DIY Spring Planter Boxes
I'd suggest making three or four planters at a time, using them to attract new customers on a first trial. These planter's boxes take a little time and money to make if you buy the wood new, but if you're resourceful, you can create a couple of these...
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How To Make A DIY Stone-Covered Birdhouse
Don't be afraid to experiment, too. Jessica Walliser If you use a metal or wooden form, you can place the entrance hole wherever you'd like, but file down any sharp edges before moving on to the next step.
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