Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Not Your Mama's Foil

From about.com
How to use foil not like your mama did !

Save Brown Sugar

The next time you go for that brown sugar while you're baking and it's a brick, place on a sheet of aluminum foil, preheat the oven to three hundred degrees, cook for five minutes and voila, no more brick, just brown sugar.

Use as a Fabric Softener

The next time you're drying clothes and you've run out of fabric softener, simply use a bit of aluminum foil roll into a ball throw in the dryer and dry normally. the aluminum foil attracts the static that would usually be on your clothes.

Improve Your Ironing

Now we'll use aluminum foil to improve an ironing board. First, remove the cover from the ironing board, place a piece of aluminum foil at the top where you do most of your ironing and replace the cover. The aluminum foil will hold the heat from the iron and help press the clothes from underneath.

Sharpen Scissors

The next time your scissors are getting dull, instead of getting a new pair, take several layers of aluminum foil and cut through them several times. this quickly sharpens the scissors and works on any type of scissors, cheap or expensive.

Make Grilled Cheese

This is my favorite. We're going to use aluminum foil to make a grilled cheese sandwich. First put all the ingredients for the sandwich in some foil, you can use butter or not, and fold the aluminum foil into a pouch. This is fun when you go on trip with kids and stop at hotel rooms because we're going to use an iron to cook the sandwich. We'll make sure the iron is heated up and we're going to cook that on both sides for several minutes until its toasted. Here's what the sandwich looks like when it's done.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Sunday, July 17, 2011

50 ways To Repurpose and Recycle a Wedding Dress

It Now that the wedding is over ,it seems a shame to store an expensive dress when there are so many ways to repurpose wedding gowns . Here is a small lit of ideas for any wedding dress or ugly bridesmaid outfit.

1. How about making a christening outfit
Many patterns can be found in stores and online
2. Make underwear
Use that silk and lace to create something special. How to Link Lace
     How to Link 
3. Kimono Robe
    Wonderful with a bit of colored embroidery  around the white of the old wedding dress. How to Link
4. Evening Gloves How to Link


5. Arm warmers with thumb holes
6. First Holy communion Dress
7. Garter
     Make garter for your friends and family  How to Link
8. Christmas ornaments
9. Jewelry Bag
10. Flower girl's dress

11. Anniversary Outfit
       Shorten the dress if you're going to be dining out, remind your husband how beautiful you looked                  on your wedding day
12. Fabric Earrings
13. Fabric flowers
      My fav is the fabric Flowers  How to Link
14.Bed skirt
15.Padded hangers How to Link
16.Ring bearer pillow
      For your family and friends How to Link


17.Burial Bunting
18.Cocktail Dress
19.Donate To a Local Theatrical Company
20.Bassinet Skirting
     A very sweet way to remember your life and child a beautiful skirt of your own wedding dress.
     How to Link
21.Fairy Princess Dress
22.Halloween Costume
23.Fabric Flags with photos printed on fabric.
   Print on dress and make cute fabric flags for your anniversary party .Remember to get other anniversary photos through the years to add to the flags How to Link
24.Art Canvas
      Stretch across a frame and paint away ,or print on fabric and frame .
25.Donate To Charity
26.Christmas Tree Skirt  How to Link
27.Doll cloths or Doll dressed like an angel
28.Pillow Sham
29.Sell On eBay
30.Shadow Box
31.Prom Dress
32.Sell to a second hand shop
33.Stuffed animals How to  Link Dog

34.Quilt or Photo Quilt - How to print on fabric
35.Tablecloth
36. Table runner  How to Link
37.Wedding Album Cover
      A great way to store all the wedding memories is in a fabric covered photo album covered wedding         fabric and lace. How to  Link
38.Wedding Gift Wrapping
39.Storage box Covers
      How to stylishly store your treasures . How to link

40.Christmas bags  How to Link
41.Christmas stockings How to Link
42.Baby shoes  How to Link
43.Fabric postcards invitations
44.Ballerina dress
45.Hankies
     For the groomsmen and grandchildren or just a memento of the day  How to Link
46. Evening Purse How to Link
47.Tree Skirt  How to Link
48. Card fronts for a anniversary dinner or celebration. Mixed media  Quilting site
49. Valentine gifts
50.Tooth fairy Pillow

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Make Homemade Liquid Sidewalk Chalk

Opproximate Time: 5 minutes
Supplies:
1 cup cornstarch
1 cup water
food coloring
old muffin tin
Tin foil

Instructions:
1.Mix together the cornstarch and water in a bowl.
2.Line muffin cups with foil
3..Next divide it among the muffin tin holders.
4..Now add your food coloring to each one and stir. This is also an opportunity to teach your child how by mixing colors together you can make new colors. Combine red and yellow to make orange, blue and red to make purple, and blue and yellow to make green.
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Recipe #2

Super Sidewalk Paint

1/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup cold water
6 to 8 drops food coloring

Mix cornstarch and cold water together in a small bowl. Add food coloring and stir. Repeat this process to make different colors of paint. You can color larger areas of sidewalk more quickly with this paint than with the regular sidewalk chalk.
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Sidewalk chalk
2 cups water
2 cups plaster of paris
2 Tbsp wet or dry Tempera paint
toilet paper tubes
duct tape
Use duct tape to cover one end of each toilet paper tube. Mix all ingredients and set aside for 5 minutes. Line a cookie sheet with wax paper or foil. Place tubes upright(open end up) on cookie sheet. Tape the tubes upright onto the wax paper or foil to make it steadier. Pour mixture into holders. Let sit until chalk mixture is almost firm. Rip off the toilet paper tubes and let the sidewalk chalk dry for about 2 more hours.