Show your antique porcelain and pottery a little TLC. Spruce up your favorite antiques with these safe cleaning techniques. Remove the dirt and let the beauty of porcelain and history shine through. Just because your pottery is old, doesn’t mean in needs to look like it came out of a tomb.
Despite what we all argued in school, math does come up in daily life. When those dreaded fractions are staring you in the face remember these steps and you will be multiplying in no time. Practice always helps.
In this video we learn how to make a Mii on the Nintendo Wii console for the popular movie character Napoleon Dynamite. The first step is to select a male character for the Mii. The second step is to create the body of the Mii and make him about 20% on the skinny side. Next choose the hair/head style and choose the afro type on the third page. Next choose brown as the hair color. Next choose straight vertical lines for the eyes. Next choose big glasses for the eye glasses. The eyebrows should...
This tutorial is about how to create a Lil' Kim inspired makeup look. The first thing to do is to get a foundation that is three to five times lighter than your own skin color. Next for the contour use a creamy dark brown for the cheeks and nose. Use NYX Jumbo Pencil Milk over your whole eye. Take a gold and cover the lid with it. Use a black to smoke it out on the outer corners. Use an ice gold color as a highlight under the eyebrows. Use a black eyebrow pencil to define the eyebrows. For th...
It's a trick that never fails to amaze. You're placed in handcuffs, but with a flick of the wrist, you're free! Kick off your career as a daring escape artist with these simple tips.
In this how to video, learn how you can create a neo sci-fi look. This makeup tutorial uses the following products:
Ever wonder how to make an amazing piece of art just using paper and some glue? This video takes you through the step-by-step process of how to make a Transforming Spike Ball. The video includes the materials needed, and a video demonstration of all the steps that you will need to construct your perfect Transforming Spine Ball. And if you ever get stuck, you can just hit pause, complete your step, and continue. The video also leaves room for you to be creative, allowing you to pick and choose...
This entertaining video demonstrates how to make a bottle rocket using tape, paper napkins, Mentos, and Diet Coke or Coke Zero. Try at your own risk! Make a pouch with the paper napkin. Put the Mentos in the pouch and roll the napkin with the Mentos into a tube shape. Open the plastic bottle of Diet Coke or Coke Zero. Place the tube in the top of the bottle, but don't let the Mentos make contact with the soda. Keep the napkin/Mentos tube stuck tightly in the top of the bottle. Re-attach the b...
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This origami tutorial will show you how to fold a six pointed star out of a regular piece of 8 1/2" X 11" paper. There are verbal instructions in Japanese for those who will find it useful, but the step by step visuals are quite clear. To fold an origami six pointed star, one only needs a single piece of rectangular paper and a little patience.
It’s late at night and your remote control runs out of batteries. When you go to replace them you realize you only have one batter left. Now you’ll have the quick fix knowledge to power your remote with just one battery until you can find another.
This is a tutorial video on how to play the ukulele, brought to you by gtut98. In this lesson, the host teaches you how to play a classic Hawaiian song called "Lovely Hula Hands", as performed by Junior Brown. You will learn all the chords you need to play the song as you follow along with the host. He does a good job of demonstrating the fingering of all the chords, as well as their progression through the song.
In this video gtut98 teaches us how to play "Coconut Island" by Junior Brown on the ukulele. He uses some background music to accompany his playing of the ukulele, which is in the key of C. The chords you need to know for the song are C, G7, F, and C7. The chord progression is C G7 C G7 C C F C G7 C C F C G7 C C7 F C C7 F C G7 C F C G7 C F C-C7 F C G7 C F C G7 C. After watching this video, the viewer should have a better understanding of how to play this song.
In this how-to video series, learn how to make artificial flowers out of tissue paper from artist Neha Ahuja. Neha will demonstrate all the steps for making artificial flowers including how to combine tissue paper to make artificial flowers, how to fold the tissue paper, how to make the flower petals for fake flowers, and how to make the stem for a fake flower.
This makeup video is a quick demonstration on how you can apply black MAC smokey eyes. Products used:
Here are some step by step instructions for how to fold and assemble Yami Yamauchi's origami fireworks. This modular unit uses 12 sheets of paper. A bone folder can be helpful for making creases. After it's completed, this sturdy origami firework can be rotated to reveal a kaleidoscope of colors!
Watch this instructional video and make an origami hydrangea. It's many tiny pieces can be glued to a flat surface to decorate cards and letters. The video includes verbal instructions in Japanese, although the visual guide is quite clear. You will need a piece of colored origami paper for the flower blossoms and a green piece of origami paper for the folded leaf.
This paper airplane has got to be one of the best airplanes of all time. It's called the Nakamura Knot for theknot in the center of the plane that keeps the airplane well-balanced. However, these airplanes take a couple good trials to get right. Once you've constructed it correctly, it should be a straight, even-flying plane. With trial and error, some of your airplanes might do flips, fly in circles, or come back and poke you in the eye, but luckily this airplane doesn't have a sharp tip. Wa...
This origami video will show you how you can fold your very own rose out of some toilet paper.
This toy can walk by itself, it is very easy to make and costs you only 10 cents. Learn how to make this fun paper snake toy - a great project for kids!
Take a few old cardboard boxes or packing boxes and recycle them into snazzy and cool photograph frames. All you need, apart from the boxes is some tape, string, a little wrapping paper for decoration - and, of course, some scissors and the photograph you want to frame.
Start drawing anime girls! This tutorial is for artists who are new to drawing, or new to anime drawing, and shows you how to start with just a pencil and blank piece of paper to start drawing a girl's face in the anime or manga style.
A bokeh lens gives a soft and unique lighting style, and can be created at home. This photography lesson teaches you how to use paper and tape on an aperture camera lens to craft your own. Improve your art with this DIY construction tip!
Pacman is gaining in popularity lately due to the game's 30 year anniversary. If you would like to take Pacman out of the game and into real life, check out this tutorial.
Always smudge when using Copics? This tutorial takes you through how to use Copics, alcohol-based markers, by applying the specific pigment-ink evenly throughout so to not smudge when coloring.
This tutorial is set-up for the novice or beginning body painter or face painter, giving step by step instructions on how to body paint a dragon on someone's leg. Paint colors needed include blue, white, black, red, yellow, gold sparkles and green. Materials are a must and include: A plastic plate or pallet, brushes, make-up or body paint, rubbing alcohol, paper towels, and a model over 18 (with at least one leg).
Follow these step-by-step instructions to fold an easy origami bookcase. You need one large piece of origami paper to complete this project. The visual guidelines are accompanied by written instructions. You can use this origami bookcase to store to store origami books.
This origami how-to video demonstrates how to fold an origami rose to embellish a scrapbook, greeting card or other paper craft projects. Folding your own origami roses is super easy and a great way to use left over scrapbooking materials. Watch this how to video and learn to origami small flowers.
An origami slave isn't going to start doing chores or going to work for you, but you can always pretend. Start out with a frog base, and note that foil paper works best. Learn how to fold an origami slave by watching this video tutorial.
This video origami tutorial shows how to use the traditional Japanese art of paper folding to make a box. Follow along and fold your own little origami box.
Learn about all the health benefits of flax seeds in this how to video. Also learn to make some delicious and healthy flax cracker. To make these cracker you will need: flax seeds, tomato, parsley, onions, garlic, salt and paper to taste.
This video tutorial shows how to color the background of embossed paper with stamp ink. Learn how to multi-task with an embossing machine.
Learn how to decorate a non-spiral notepad. Learn how to craft a boring notepad with art paper and design a fun cover.
In the video we experiment with several different types of insulation, including paper towels, newspaper and aluminum foil to see which one keeps the heat in the best.
This project shows you how to make a great working volcano using posterboard rather than paper-mache or plaster. It's easier, faster, and perfect for younger children. The volcano takes a half hour and is ready to be decorated, painted, and then erupted!
If you know where to get silver sticky paper, then you can make cool looking Rubik's Cubes. Spice it up. Don't just solve it, solve it in style.
This little paper dish can hold candies, nuts, and other small items.
Here's a design for folding paper high heels. I don't know who would wear them though.
Learn an easy way to make your own amazing 3D origami triangle star. Make a 3D star out of 6 piece of paper.
With the quick flick of a spatula, your cake will have textured swirls. Tuck parchment paper under the cake to keep everything even. Work frosting with a spatula to warm it up before you spread it. Make sure swirls go all the way to the edge. Always use fluid motions.
