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How To: Patch stucco with This Old House
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How To: Build wooden landscape steps with This Old House
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How To: Clear a clogged drain with This Old House
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How To: Plant a tree in poor soil with This Old House
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How To: Plant a tree with This Old House
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How To: Remove a tree stump with This Old House
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How To: Vent a bathroom fan with This Old House
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How To: Create a cute off the shoulder sweatshirt by cutting off the collar
Got a bunch of old, chunky sweaters accumulating in your closet? Of course you can donate them to Goodwill, but we're betting that you can get a lot more mileage out of those babies than you think.
How To: Cut a pretty flower food garnish from a carrot
You want to know the real reason you pay so much money to dine at four and five-star restaurants? Well, the quality of the food is obviously a factor. But the biggest discrepancy is quite simply the presentation. Order something as simple as pan-seared tuna with sesame seeds and it'll come drizzled in a posmodernist Pollock-esque pattern of soy sauce and a miniature dragon made out of a carrot. It's pretty impressive stuff, almost as impressive as what your bill will be.
How To: Do the Hustle "Wobble" dance step by step
As strange as it may seem, the Hustle "Wobble" is actually a form of line dancing. But rather than tossing your cowboy hat on and your boots for an old West rendition of the Cowboy Boogie, the Hustle Wobble is more about shakin' what your mama gave you and getting down with your bad self.
How To: Fade the edges of a black and white photo in Photoshop
If only we could fade bad memories of bad exes as easily as we could fade photos. But we digress. If you have a special photo memory you'd like to visually enhance and preserve for posterity, then one of the best tricks you can do is to fade the photo edges using Photoshop.
How To: Create a soft fade around an object in Photoshop
We don't know why exactly, but somehow fading the edges of a photograph makes it look more sentimental. Maybe it's because faded edges remind us of old timey photographs that have yellowed and softened with age, or maybe it's because faded eges endow a sort of dream-like atmosphere to your picture.
How To: The Trick to Stabbing a Balloon Without Popping It
A balloon's worst fear is a sharp object, so usually when you puncture a balloon, it pops in your face. Not with this science trick! To puncture a fully blown up latex balloon without popping it, you'll need a pointed metal or wooden skewer and some plain old dish soap. That's it.
How To: Craft a 3D nature-inspired butterfly greeting card
You know those ancient, so old you could crumble them just by blowing on them greeting cards and postcards your grandma has? While vintage cards are gorgeous in their antiquity, if you're going for a vintage look without the delicacy then it's best you make a vintage inspired card yourself.
How To: Make an awesome propeller Steampunk brass ring
Add instant art school style to your outfit by crafting this propeller Steampunk brass ring. Steampunk style, which fuses Victorian/industrial age style with anachronisms like old watch parts and propellers, is on trend right now with Hollywood as well as the indie craft scene.
How To: Craft a vintage collage necklace with brass stampings and rhinestones
This Mona Lisa necklace is really as unique and charming as it gets. Why wear the same old stringy bohemian necklace as everyone else when you can fabricate your own neck wear using vintage brooches, brass stampings, and other found knick knacks?
How To: Use Gears, Propellers, Wheels, and Watch Parts in Steampunk Jewelry
If you've never heard of Steampunk before, then you're about to be educated. Steampunk is a relatively new hybrid style (and subgenre) of old anachronisms and technology. So, for instance, a steampunk computer is one that's done in an industrial, victorian manner with brass parts.
How To: Decorate a festive Christmas tree cupcake
Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree, how delicious are your branches...and ornaments...and crowning star. Of course, we're not talking about any old Christmas tree here, but rather a cupcake decorated to look like one! It's really much simpler than you think.
How To: Replace an electrical socket step by step
Electrical sockets are often taken for granted. It's not until one of them breaks or stops working and our laptops won't turn on that we truly have a crisis (mostly over lost internet time).
How To: Save money on detail sanders by using abrasive paper rolls
Detail sanders are one of the finest tools for polishing wood surfaces to a perfectly smooth finish. But it often costs a lot to replace detail sander sheets. Luckily, there's a way to save some moolah on your sanding sheet needs.
How To: Complete a detoxifying vinyasa yoga sequence with Sadie Nardini
When you think detox, you probably imagine lithe, bony starlets sipping on vegetable juice or lemon water with cayenne pepper. While removing junk from your diet is a common form of detox, you can also remove toxins and cleanse your body by doing exercise.
How To: Create an edgy, sparkly acid-green eye makeup look
We know that "acid green" is not exactly a delightful color when it comes to most things. If your two month-old orange is acid green, it's probably pure mold, and if a bottle is full of acid green liquid, it's most likely poison (or, okay, soda). But you get our point.
How To: Create a feminine twisted French braid updo
French braids are timeless hairstyles that make you look elegant and put together whether you're simply headed for Biology class or you're assembling a beautiful hairdo for a wedding.
How To: Solve the puzzle in Pan's Temple in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Pan's Temple contains a tough puzzle that may leave you thrashing about and quite possibly breaking your controller in half. You have to save your love from a variation on the old Pendulum Blade torture device. The puzzle presents you with two main rings that you have to adjust among other nasty pieces of the puzzle. If you're confused on how to complete this puzzle, check out this video to get a tutorial on how to complete the puzzle quickly and easily!
How To: Make coral embellished upcycled plates with Evette Rios
Typically during the holiday season hostesses give very little attention to the plates that food is served on. Because the focus is on the food, the plate needs to be nothing more than a plain white backdrop, right? Wrong.
How To: Find the missing laser pistol for Knight Torres in Fallout: New Vegas
At some point in Fallout: New Vegas on the Xbox 360, you'll eventually find yourself in Hidden Valley, the secret location of the Brotherhood of Steel. After exploring their bunker, you may find yourself meeting with Knight Torres, the Quartermaster for the Brotherhood of Steel. She will tell you that she is missing a Laser Pistol from her last shipment and wants you to go look for it. Well, not just any old Laser Pistol will do, apparently— she wants something very specific. In this video, y...
How To: Complete the quest "Come Fly With Me" in Fallout: New Vegas
Come Fly With Me is a quest that you get in Fallout New Vegas after speaking with Manny in the search for the man who shot you, Benny. He needs you to go check out the old ReppConn headquarters to get rid of some of the Ghouls nesting over there. What you find, well, that's a whole other story! Having trouble completing the quest? Check out this video for a full walkthrough of the entire quest! Just be sure to watch your back!
How To: Bake traditional English scones with flaky crusts
Once you start making your own scones you'll never go back. While those hardened, several days old scones you get in packs at Costco are great if you're running low on time in general and just need a flaky doughy thing in your mouth fast, the best scones are fresh and homemade.
How To: Reach Fort Nellis Air Force Base in Fallout: New Vegas on the Xbox 360
In Fallout: New Vegas, you will eventually end up having to check out the other factions and tribes in the game. One of them happens to be the Boomers over at Fort Nellis Air Force Base, a clan of old vault dwellers who took over the base and have been making use of their heavy artillery to keep intruders away.
How To: Curl your hair the eco-friendly way with scraps of fabric
Curling your hair without either a curling iron or a flat iron? It sounds preposterous, but it can be done - and to great effect - after you watch this video. Sure, curling irons are great and quick ways to add bounce and volume to your locks, but they eat up electricity and damage your beautiful strands.
How To: Calculate compound interest in math
In this video, we learn how to calculate compound interest. Start with your example of investing $2000 at 3% interest over four years. Now, write down how much you have at the start of year one. To find the percent of this you will need to simply do the amount divided by one hundred and times it by three. Then, you will find the number for the amount of interest you had for that year. Continue to do this for each year and the amount of money you will increase each year. Do this until you reac...
How To: Create a film noir Old Hollywood makeup look for Halloween
During the age of silent film and film noir film was limited to only variations of black and white. While this aided greatly to produce scenes of dire intensity (a starkly lit shot of a man in an alleyway, for instance), this also meant that actors and actresses had to wear tons of makeup to make their makeup show up on screen.
How To: Create a 1920's Old Hollywood chestnut bun
First things first: The chestnut bun does indeed resemble those round brown nuts you roast by the fire around Christmastime.