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How To: Make sodium acetate with homemade items

In this tutorial, we learn how to make sodium acetate. First, pour a bottle of vinegar into a large pot on a stove. Next, add in baking soda slowly until it is completely dissolved into the vinegar. Stop adding the baking soda once the mixture doesn't bubble anymore. Now, turn the heat to medium and let the mixture boil down until you get a rich gold color. Now, grab a box of activated filter carbon and pour it into the bowl with vinegar and baking soda. When finished, mix the product togethe...

How To: Paint Carnation flowers in the Chinese brush style

In a special Mother's Day installment of their weekly instructional series on Chinese painting, Blue Heron Art's Henry teaches us to paint Chinese Carnations in watercolor, with calligraphy highlights done in ink with a brush. His grace and accuracy with both the watercolor and the ink would be challenging for many of the less-artistically-inclined to emulate, but the finished product is beautiful and should impress all but the choosiest of moms if their child were to make / buy it for them.

How To: Recycle an old cell phone at Best Buy

Not sure what to do with your old cell phone? Best Buy has answers. There's a recycling program directly inside the store that allows you to drop off any old phone you may have so it can be reused or sent to a proper landfill. The Best Buy Mobile team explains how simple it is to recycle an old cell phone at Best Buy.

How To: Make a wooden spear from scratch

Making a wooden spear requires a between medium and small thick stick, a rectangular piece of board, a hatchet and a wood clipper. The branches off the stick is removed and thrown away. The stick is clipped at the smaller end. It is then placed on the board and the larger end is cut off with the hatchet, while the stick rotates in a circular motion on the board to remove the outer skin. Closer attention is paid the shaping and cutting of the point of that larger side to get it in formation. T...

How To: Make an easy dreamcatcher

Arts and Crafts at Camp Watonka demonstrates how to make an easy dream catcher. Tools for the dream catcher include a ring, wax string, leather strips, pony beads, feathers, scissors and craft glue. First, cut a medium-sized piece of string. Tie a knot on the ring. Wrap the string around the ring two or three times and pinch it. Then, move to a different part of the ring and repeat the technique a few times. Add pony beads and feathers to the project. Glue the leather strips all the way aroun...

How To: Create a sex kitten makeup look

Learn how you can create the ultimate sex kitten look with this how to video. Just slap on a smokey eye and a pink lip and you're ready to be an import girl. This makeup tutorial uses the following products (All MAC unless otherwise specified):

How To: Style a herringbone braid

Learn how you can create a herringbone or fishbone hairstyle with this tutorial. You will need long to medium length hair for this hairstyle. Watch this video demonstration and you can create a herringbone or fishbone hair style with your own hair.

How To: Draw Mickey Mouse in MS Paint

Learn how to draw a Mickey mouse on your computer using MS Paint in simple steps. Use the oval tool and draw two medium size circles leaving some space between the other. Now draw a bigger circle by making its top ends meeting the other two circles. Draw two little circle inside the bigger circle for the eyes and draw another circle below the eyes for the nose. Make a curve joining the two eyes and draw its mouth below the nose as shown in the video. Finally draw some hair and give the colori...

How To: Copy and back up DVD's on a Mac

See how to use Wondershare DVD Copy to copy and back up DVD's on a Mac. DVD Copy for Mac is a professional DVD copy program designed for Mac OS users to copy D9 and D5 DVD movies. It can copy your DVD with the original quality 100% preserved and at the same time remove DVD protections such as CSS, RC and RCE.

How To: Make coconut mead

Prepare the coconuts by drilling a one inch hole in them . Drain out the coconut milk and rinse out the inside of the coconuts with spring water. Add mead and then cork with a rubber stopper and airlock. All that's being done is fermenting the coconuts so the mead can absorb the coconut flavor.

How To: Apply gold and green eyeshadow

Learn how to create a shimmery gold and green eyeshadow look with this how to video. This makeup tutorial uses the following products: water-based mixing medium, a soft white gold base (Gold Dusk pigment), an emerald green base (Emerald Green pigment), an emerald green eyeshadow (Humid eyeshadow), a white gold eyeshadow (Gorgeous Gold, Casablanca), a dirty gold eyeshadow (Rye eyeshadow), a cool mint green eyeshadow (Aquavert), a brow bone color (Casablanca), a black liner (Graphblack technako...

How To: Draw an exaggerated dog

Illustrator and Character designer Joe Bluhm goes over his thoughts and process while digitally painting an exaggerated animal sketch in Illustrator. You can apply these principles to any digital or traditional drawing mediums. Good video for people who learn visually with little verbal direction.

How To: Use a computer scanner

In this series of videos you'll learn how to connect and use a 2D scanner. Electronics & media expert Tony Ramirez shows you step by step how to load the drivers and software onto your computer, how to adjust the scanning settings, and how to save and print an image you've scanned.

How To: Freeze peaches

Eat wonderful peaches all year long. Freezing fruit is easy and a great ways to preserve and retain nutrients. Freeze your peaches now and thaw them when you are ready to make a peach pie or smoothies. This is the perfect way to make the most out of your fruit.

How To: Give your car a complete tune-up

Gear up the performance of your car with a comprehensive tune-up. Check out this video tutorial from the DIY Network to see how to give your car a complete tune-up. You'll need to get spark plugs of course, and the wiring harness. If your vehicle needs a change, help it out with these automotive tips. Change the belts, the air filter, the oil filter, and more. Learn from the masters.

How To: Rope braid your hair

Learn how you can create a rope braid hair style with this tutorial. You will need long to medium length hair for this hairstyle. Watch this video demonstration and you can create a twisted rope braid hairstyle in no time at all.

How To: Choose and mix colors

This tutorial talks you through the vital processes of painting: color mixing and color choice. Although the artist is about to paint an oil, this tutorial is applicable to all color mediums from pastel to watercolor, acrylic, and gauche.

How To: Play office politics

You either love politics, or you don't, but office politics are entirely different than your local elections. It could mean respect, raises, or could even mean your job. Just staying out of it could stunt your career. Here’s how to jump in and get ahead – without getting burned.

How To: Recover a stolen bike

You love your bike and it was stolen. Although, this is not a good scenario, you still may be able to retrieve it. Sketch the serial number or means of identification into the bike and then when it is stolen you can really get the word out to all the places that it might turn up.

How To: Make corn tortillas with a tortilla press

In this tutorial, we learn how to make tortillas with a tortilla press. First, you will need masa, which is corn flour with lime juice in it. Pour out some masa into a bowl, then add in warm water to the bowl to make a dough. After this, mix the masa and the water until you have a dough. It should feel like warm clay or play dough. Now, heat up a cast iron skillet and while that is heating up, grab your dough and place it into the tortilla press. Make your fresh tortilla, then place it into t...

How To: Replace the battery in a Creative Zen Vision:M

Have a tweaking Zen Vision M? Your battery might need replaced, so do it yourself instead of paying someone else to do it! You don't need to pay an expensive professional when you only need to pay for the battery. This step-by-step video demonstration will show you the procedure for replacing the battery in your Creative Zen Vision:M Portable Media Player. You can use the replacement battery found in the video, or any other replacement battery, the results are the same.

How To: Cross-dress on Meez

Meez is the social entertainment leader combining avatars, web games and virtual worlds. Get help with all of your Meez avatar needs with these Meez tips and tricks! Watch this video tutorial to learn how to cross-dress on Meez.

How To: Use BearShare to download music

In this video series, watch as computer, internet and software expert Matt Nichols teaches how to use BearShare to download music. Learn the basics of BearShare software, how to download BearShare, how to install BearShare, how to search for songs to download, how to download music, how to get a monthly subscription to BearShare, how to use the playlist, how to burn CD's using BearShare, and how to use BearShare for social networking. File-sharing is a great way to learn about new music and s...

How To: Show welcome messages in WordPress with subscribe link

Do you know where your blog's traffic is coming from? Everywhere. That's where. And they all want a warm welcome to your website. Every blog has multiple traffic sources. In order to welcome visitors from different traffic sources like Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, etc., with the welcome message, we can add our subscription link according to the traffic source. Also, we can use default welcome message for direct visitors with help of this plugin. See how.