| How-To: Homemade Toothpaste Sarah James is at it again with another DIY replacement for a drugstore products: toothpaste. She writes: Quit throwing away your hard earned cash for name brand toothpaste like a sucker! Get the cleanest feeling teeth of your life with this homemade toothpaste recipe that actually tastes good. Toothpaste is something you can make easily with stuff you have at home, and flavor however you like. Your family could be brushing their teeth for a YEAR for how much you're currently spending on one tube! Now how does that sound? But Scooch, you say, I've tried homemade toothpaste, and it's tastes like. . . well, like baking soda! Now, now, I understand your concerns - I've tried them all too. Yuck! So I've decided to put an end to nasty homemade toothpaste with my own recipe, designed to bring you a new level of taste and freshness from that I think you're going to love!More: Instructables Beauty Contest Homemade Shampoo How-To: Make Your Own DeodorantRead this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
Sangre Chronicle > Eagle Nest > Arts and crafts at altitude in Eagle Nest EAGLE NEST Over its 28-year history, the High Country Arts & Crafts Festival in Eagle Nest has garnered a reputation as the place to pick up one-of-a-kind works that have been handcrafted by regional artists. sangrechronicle.com |
Church Briefs Savannah storytelling, Kalahari crafts, Madagascar music, Grassland games and Serengeti science, along with snacks, critters and trading cards, are in the works for the Baobab Blast vacation church school at St. Thomas Lutheran Church on Grosse Ile. thenewsherald.com |
How-To: Musical Drawdio Puppet By Angela SheehanConductive fabric/thread and a few electronic parts make this seemingly ordinary plushie into a fun playable instrument.This octopus jellyfish-inspired puppet lets you make different squeaky sounds using an embedded Drawdio. Hold the puppet by putting one hand in the loop on its belly. Use the other hand to touch conductive spots on its legs, which complete the Drawdio's circuit to make sounds. Using the technique shown in the Make:Online project Unruly, 100K resistors in the legs create a change in pitch between each conductive circle. I experimented with different resistor values at the end to change the sound of each leg as a whole and included some that I thought sounded cool. Feel free to change up the resistor values and make your own unique soundscape.Musical Drawdio Puppet from Angela M. Sheehan on Vimeo.Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in CRAFT Projects | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |
Easy-to-Make Earring Holder Fellow Mitten resident, and Detroiter, Melissa Anderson has instructions for an easy, inexepensive do-it-yourself earring holder.Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in Organizing | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |