How To: Do a Very Basic Ikebana Flower Arrangement
Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, dates back to over 500 years ago and is still practiced as a highly respected cultural art form in modern-day Japan.
Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, dates back to over 500 years ago and is still practiced as a highly respected cultural art form in modern-day Japan.
Cyclists and unknowing vehicle participants "collaborated" on a public guerilla graffiti art piece in Berlin this last week.
Got a bottle of inexpensive, unopened red wine and some citrus fruits lying around in your kitchen? If you plan on throwing an outdoor summer party, you really can't go wrong with a pitcher full of homemade sangria.
Rooibos tea alone is a treat, with its naturally sweet and slightly nutty taste. But think about adding hibiscus tea to the mix. How about a little bit of tea flowers? Now, think about turning that wonderful red combination into iced tea. Perfect for hot summer days!
Monty Don plants up a ceonuthus, sharing his tips for good drainage and adding extra energy for the plant roots.
Bill Granger combines pumpkin and chickpeas in a colorful and delicious vegetarian dish, fantastically simple to make. Prepare aromatic pumpkin and chickpea stew.
Make molasses-glazed duck salad. Molasses-glazed duck is combined with salad greens, pecans, and roasted vegetables and served on sweet potato puree in this colorful salad. Make molasses-glazed duck salad.
Chef Rick Bayless demonstrates how to make rustic jicama salad; a colorful and tasty salad perfect for an appetizer. This recipe includes blanched onions and fresh ground spices. Make rustic jicama salad.
Julia Child and her guest demonstrate how to make eggplant falafel with tahini dressing. Falafel, an Israeli specialty containing chickpeas and eggplant, is served with crisp salad and colorful vegetables over pita bread. Make eggplant falafel with tahini dressing.
My favorite kind of violence: flower bullets and drops of petal blood. The bad guys encroach on the scene in a hippie VW bus, and flower bedlam ensues...
Monty Don demonstrates how to plant up and age a stone container to create a formal garden display. Follow these Gardeners' World step-by-step guides to garden projects from the BBC. These lovely tutorials on gardening will grow your green thumb and make your gardens grow healthful plants. Plant up an ornamental flower container.
In this episode Preston Bailey gives his tip on how to select flowers to make the most dramatic effect for your wedding. Create a dramatic effect with flowers.
In this video learn how to fold a napkin into a lily flower horn. It will surprise all of your guests. Fold a napkin into a lily flower (Pliage fleur de lys).
Simon Adams and VideoJug demonstrate how to make a desert flower cocktail. This refreshing tequila cocktail is just the thing for a hot day beside the pool. You'll need gold tequila, sugar syrup, creme de cassis liqueur, 1 lemon, and crushed ice to make this drink. Make a Desert Flower cocktail.
This demonstrates how to make your own personalized flower pots. This is a great rainy day project to do with children. It is also great for them to give as gifts they made themselves. Make personalized flower pots.
The Flowergod designs an accent table arrangement for a wedding. The arrangement includes pink freesia, white wax flower, plumosa, sword fern, white calla lilies, and a cylinder vase. This is a good centerpiece to put on a serving table. Make an accent table centerpiece.
The Flowergod designs bubble bowl centerpiece for a wedding. The centerpiece contains white hydrangea, pink freesia, white wax flower, plumosa, white tulips, an 8" bubble bowl, and blue marbles. Make a bubble bowl centerpiece.
The Flowergod creates a Gerbera ribbon choker for a wedding or luau. The choker is made of ribbon tied in the back with an orange Gerbera daisy and a geranium leaf glued to it. You use flower glue which dries very fast. Make a Gerbera ribbon choker.
The Flowergod shows you how to put together a fall arrangement with a dozen yellow Roses, three different greeneries, and a filler flower. Make a dozen fall rose arrangement.
Giveaway Tuesdays has officially ended! But don't sweat it, WonderHowTo has another World that's taken its place. Every Tuesday, Phone Snap! invites you to show off your cell phone photography skills.
The angle in which you shoot your subject can change everything. Sometimes when you take a picture at eye level looking straight at the object, things can appear flat and not as interesting. But instead of just snapping a picture, try getting down to the subjects level. For example, if you're taking a picture of a flower, get down close to the flower, and maybe angle your lense up, looking up at the flower, instead of looking down. Or angle your lense as if you're looking at the flower sidewa...
While I don't find Mattijs van Bergen and Anouk Vogel's "Living" dresses aesthetically earth shattering, I'm wowed by the concept. The fashion designer and landscape architect created a collection of dresses made from recycled inner tubes and flowers for a late summer exhibition titled “Fashion & Architecture” at the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture.
Guerilla gardener Steve Wheen has a simple solution for urban beautification: grow mini-gardens in potholes all over the city, simultaneously transforming ugly roads AND warning motorists and cyclists of potentially dangerous potholes.
Food & Flowers Freedom Act in Los Angeles
Martha Stewart and kids editorial director Jodi Levine shares ideas for decorating Easter eggs with crepe paper. Crepe paper is one of my favorite materials. It's actually tissue paper that has been reinforced with sizing and "creped," a crinkling method that yields a medium that is incredibly pliable yet sturdy enough to iron and sew. Beautiful and durable, it lends itself to countless applications. In fact, I walked down the aisle with a bouquet of crepe paper blooms! I recently realized ho...
Patience is a virtue that many of us do not possess, which is exactly why we've previously shown you how to acquire the initial wallpapers for Mac OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 beta.
If you are bored of the way the interior of your home looks but don't want to spend a lot of time and money buying new furniture or investing in expensive DIY projects, give your inner space a quick lift with a few simple tools and supplies. Like, chalk paint on a wall which you can then decorate, erase and redecorate with chalk. Or a splash of color by hanging fabric on the wall or adding a colorful floor rug in the living room. Or simply adding a vase of flowers, a glass bowl of fruit or se...
I make silk flowers for personal use as of now. My sister suddenly passed away 18 yr ago, & I try to make sure she has a very nice flower arrangement for every season. I dont have alot of money but she deserves to have a nice flower arrangement. She was only 19 when she passed so I have been doing this for 18 yr. I would like to make a business of this , I just dont know how to get started
From Astronomy Picture of the Day, Milky Way Over Abandoned Kilns by Tom McEwan. McEwan shot some historic kilns in rural Nevada, stitching together a panoramic "digital conglomerate of five separate images taken in early June from the same location. Visible above the unusual kilns is a colorful star field, highlighted by the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy appearing along a diagonal toward the lower right."
Take a trip back to the 80's with this Halloween costume idea. With a little bit of makeup and some colorful clothing, you can create a retro 80s costume, complete with the appropriate makeup. Take a look at this tutorial to find out how.
If inspired by the Gowanus Jell-O competition (1, 2), here's a manageable starting point. Brett Bara demonstrates how to make a "wiggling tower of colorful goodness": Previously, Make Blingy Jewels out of Jell-O.
Ok, it's gross. But at least they're... colorful.
Small tortillas filled with shrimp, vegetables and herbs. A colorful and original canapé. Experience our prawn tortilla canapés recipe. Make prawn tortilla canapes.
A colorful, summery and extremely tasty vegetarian dish. Serve as a vegetarian lunch or supper dish or as an accompaniment to barbecued meat. Make summer vegetable crumble.
This video shows how to make an easy origami jasmine flower napkin. Wee need 2 square papers. Fold this papers diagonally on two sides. Fold 4 corners of both the papers to the center. The folding of both must be exactly same. Use the first one as a template. Creases of the other one is exactly aligned with the template square. Repeat for the second one as the template. Fold the papers diagonally to the corners. Fold it double 4 more times on the other side. The folds should not end at the po...
Florist expert, Emily Weaver, owner of Chestnut in the Tuileries, shows Martha Stewart how to make a creative centerpiece with tulips. Materials needed are assorted tulips, large knife or clippers, ribbon, pins, 4 vases, water, cut-flower food and
Taken with Instagram from my aunt's wedding album. I'm the crying flower girl sitting among my many, many aunts.
Sick of the standard bread baked in a loaf pan? Impress your family and friends by baking bread in a plain terracotta flower pot. Baking bread in a terracotta pot makes for crispy bread with a tender and moist interior. Make sure the terra cotta pot is unglazed and unpainted before using it.
This is a picture of one of my moms flowers that she planted.
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