Parakeets are small, colorful, friendly and chatty and all of these reasons make them great pets for kids. In this clip, learn how to select and care for your little feathered friends with pet expert, Marc Morrone. You will get the 411 on these colorful critters and learn how to keep them happy, healthy and singing all day long.
There are an infinite number of things that you can make out of K'nex. A disproportionate, but entertaining, number of these are toy guns. This video features an innovative design for a powerful K'nex (it also has a rubber band in it) gun that shoots small K'nex pieces across a room accurately and with a lot of power. It may not look like a gun, but it works!
These origami ninja stars have been modified to include a small box for storing everything from candy for a celebration to your keys. Made out of a square piece of foil origami tissue paper, these storage boxes are perfect for summer celebrations or birthday parties.
Unlike cupcakes, which magically disappear even before they are set down on the table, cake pops can be made in more abundance and are portion sized so everyone can try at least one before seconds are given out.
These days it seems like budgets are on everybody's minds. Big or small, financial planning is an essential part of daily life following the latest recession. In this tutorial you will learn how to create budget resources, using MS Project 2007, that you can assign to your project to compare you actual hours and costs against your budget.
Lunges are certainly not as loved as cute bikini bottoms, but the two go irrevocably together. Unless you're a genetically gifted mutant (Gisele, we hate you), you probably don't have a rock solid, perfect pair of butt cheeks and most likely deal with small amounts of chub and cellulite.
Want to know what that foreign YouTube comment says without loading a separate webpage to translate it? Downloading gTranslate, a Firefox addon that translates any text, will help you see what that comment is or any small sentence. Just highlight the text, right-click on the text and go to the translator, the foreign language will be automatically detected and translated.
If you own any bored reptiles and want to zest up their terrarium environment on a budget, this video will teach you how to make a cool waterfall for their terrarium using basic materials. It should take a couple of hours, and the results are very pretty (depending on your painting skills) and sure to entertain any small-to-medium-sized lizard. Not recommended for dinosaurs.
You don't have to live with that unsightly popcorn ceiling anymore! If you want to get rid of the popcorn ceiling your home, you can do it with just a small amount of equipment and the willingness to deal with some hard work. This video will show you how to remove popcorn ceilings.
Want to make your own electromagnet? It's easier than you'd think. It's so easy, in fact, that this video guide can present a complete and thorough overview of the entire magnet making process in just over two minutes. For complete instructions and a list of necessary materials, watch this free home science how-to.
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 307th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX, ROWS, COLUMNS, LARGE, SMALL functions to create 4 different formulas that will invert a range of values.
Forget TV dinners, watch this video and sit down to enjoy a delicious salisbury steak. A perfect treat with mushrooms, a side of mashed potatoes, excellent meal for the entire family to enjoy.
Cake decorating is a real art so who better to learn from than from a professional cake artist? This video is full of professional advice and takes you through the process of how to use butter cream to frost and decorate your cake.
Save yourself a fortune by making your very own homemade oatmeal facial mask. Place 6 teaspoons of sweet almond oil into a small bowl. Add 2 drops each of pure violet oil, lavender, neroli oil to the bowl. Add enough oatmeal to the mix and make a paste. Pat onto your face and lay down for 20 minutes. Rinse clean with warm water.
Learn how to avoid dry skin that develops on extended airplane flights. 1 Buy a small sprayer (under three and a third ounces, due to airplane security) and lip balm. 2 Every hour that you are on the airplane, spray your face once with the sprayer's fine mist setting. 3 Do not wipe off the water and apply a thin layer of oil free moisturizer. 4 Apply lip balm every hour.
Here is a series of hot and complex sexy salsa dance patterns. This is a more complicated salsa pattern. It is a very long pattern, so take it in strides and small bites. We have named the individual moves to help you piece the entire salsa combination together.
It's easy to make Italian parsley gremolata. First you start off with chopped parsley in a small bowl. Next add some pressed raw garlic and some lemon zest using a microplane grater. After that, add just enough olive oil to blind the ingredients. Now you have a sauce that can be used to spruce up meats and stews.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the ancient Japanese art form of origami to make a butterfly. This is a fairly simple design that's good for beginners, taking only a few minutes to learn. But the results are impressive, making for an elegant decorative item or small gift.
Need a way to hide your small pricey or memorable objects? Well, what better place to hide those cherished items than in a burning candle? Unless your robbers have a thing for scented and aromatic candles.
(S.E.P) ShootingEggs Productions shows you how to make a magic coin like David Blaine to be used as currency! We show you how. You need a jeweler's saw, a vice, small rubber bands and a coin of your choice. This coin can be used for the coin bite trick or the coin in the bottle trick. It is easy to do and very effective for prop magic tricks.
With the average woman a 36C, it can suck being the flattest girl in the room. Here’s how to make the most of what you’ve got! You will need better posture, the right clothes, the right bra, exercise and eye shadow. Small breasts age better, so don't feel bad about your flatter chest. Use these tips to enhance your natural flat chest.
A good sugar cookie is sweet, crisp, and delicious. This is a good sugar cookie recipe. You will need:
Looking for fast cash with no questions asked? There are legitimate ways to get it, if you're willing to pay the consequences. You will need a credit card with unused credit, a tax refund, a car, a small loan company, a signature loan company, or a payday loan. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to get money quickly by finding a loan shark.
In order to connect two personal computers to each other, you will need a crossover cable. If you don't have one, that's not a problem. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to make a crossover cable from and ordinary LAN cable with a small connector block, a knife, tape, and a lighter.
There are a lot of ways to keep your camera from shaking. Most of these involve expensive devices known as tripods. If you're super stingy and don't want to spring from a tripod, this video tutorial will show you how to make one using only a rubber band. The method shown in this cinematography video is small, simple, and very effective for keeping your camera from shaking.
You know that really annoying whirring sound your computer makes when it's, well, working? That's due to your hard drive vibrating and creating a small noise while doing so. Luckily, you don't have to put up with a loud hard drive anymore.
There are many variations on the chain stitch used in hand embroidery. Here's one that produces a "realistic-looking" chain, with a small link between each of the loops in the chain stitch. It's called the cable chain stitch. Watch this video from Needle 'n Thread to see how it's done.
The fly stitch can be worked both horizontally and vertically. In this video tutorial from Needle 'n Thread, you'll see the fly stitch worked vertically.Besides working fly stitches in horizontal rows or vertical columns, the stitch can also be isolated, to create "filled" (loosely filled) background areas, or to create small accent-like stitches across a "canvas." Experiment with it! It's a fun and quick stitch!
Make your very own hydrogen (and oxygen) generator with a 9V battery, copper wire, and baking soda (or salt). Why? Who knows. Make sure to check your connections. For more information on this hack, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on assembling your own HHO generator, watch this how-to video.
Check out this how-to guide on constructing a penny-stove. This video will take you through each small step of making the penny alcohol stove for camping or just for the garage.
You need scissors and some patience. Also, pick up a small flashlight to light your paper craft.
TOUCHPAD HACK - This video tutorial shows how to transform a touchpad into a useful mini graphics tablet with some simple, everyday items. You will need a 1.5V battery, a small ball bearing, and a Philips head screwdriver. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to transform a touch pad into a miniature graphics tablet.
Circular breathing will enable you to play your didgeridoo continuously. In this movie we'll show you how easy it is by breaking the process down in to small simple steps.
In this video we learn how to create a simple paper football. First, fold off a strip of a piece of paper and then cut it or rip it off the page. After this, grab the bottom of the paper and fold it into a triangle. From here, fold the triangle up and then continue to fold it making the same triangle shape. Do this until you reach the top of the strip of paper. You will have a small piece of paper left over at the top of the strip. With this, you will take it and tuck it into the small pocket...
In this video we learn how to make a paper football with different papers. First, grab the papers that you want to use and then cut a strip off of them. Once you do this, you will fold the told of the paper down in a triangle. After this, fold down the triangle many times down until you reach the end of the strip. You will be left over with one small piece of the paper that you will tuck into the small pocket that you made when you folded all of the triangles in the strip of paper. Once you d...
No matter what kind of business you have, small or big, online-based or not, when you're dealing with email marketing, the number one things your targets will see is the subject line, and if your subject line looks spammy or uninteresting, it's not going to help you one bit.
In this video, we learn how to do a fancy and messy side bun. First, curl your hair however you would prefer, but it should be more wavy than curly. Now, part your hair on the side and then tie your hair on one side. Bring your bands out of the tie, then start to tease your pony tail in small sections. Make sure to use a lot of hair spray while doing this, then afterwards as well. Now, take the pony tail and connect it to the head. Use small sections and connect them with bobby pins. When fin...
Small umbrellas are perfect for martinis and cocktails, but your kids don't have to know that. But this variation of the mini umbrellas aren't the kind you'd like to stick in your drink, but the kind your kids can have tons of fun with. They're cute, easy to make, and a fun afternoon of crafts with the kids. To see how to make these foam umbrellas, watch and learn. You'll need:
In this video, we learn how to make homemade lip balm. You will need a spoon, Vaseline, a butter knife and lipstick. First, scoop out a small amount of Vaseline into a container and mix it in with a small piece of your favorite lipstick. Mix this until the color is fully blended. Lift it out with the butter knife and put it into a lip gloss container and let it set for a little over a day. It will slightly harden up and then you will be ready to wear it. You can choose whichever color lip sti...
Forever Yours demonstrates how to get shiny, healthy straight hair that will last throughout the day using a hairdryer, round brush and a ceramic technology flat iron. Apply a heat protectant before beginning the process to protect the hair. Divide all hair into three equal layers, bottom, middle and top. Clip middle and top sections up high on head and begin by drying the bottom section. Dry the hair fully, divide hair into two sections and starting from one side, flat iron from root to end ...
