Looking for an easy way to impress your date (when at a not-so-impressive restaurant)? Make a rose from a paper napkin using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions on how to make your own paper flowers from folded paper napkins. For more information, and to get started making paper napkin flowers yourself, take a look!
This video shows how to use baby socks to make cute decorative roses. Take one sock and lay it flat on a table. Roll it up starting at the toe. When you get to the end of the sock fold the ankle opening over the rolled up part of the sock, then arrange the "flower petals." You could make a whole pile of these baby sock roses in just a few minutes. They would work great to decorate a baby gift, or to decorate a baby shower. You can tie them up with ribbons or add stems and make a "flower" disp...
You’ll have a blooming good time in the colorful costume in this how-to video! Dress up with some friends and go as a bouquet this Halloween! You will need a green long sleeved shirt, black leggings, black shoes, 4 sheets pink sticky felt, green pipe cleaners, yellow pipe cleaners, white glitter paint, a marker, a headband, scissors, a fake leaf garland, and the step-by step instructions in this video costume-making tutorial. Make a flower costume for Halloween.
This beautiful flower can be used as decoration on a hat, scarf, headband or purse. You name it. There are many uses. On the photo above, I added it to a hat. I have also used it as a decoration on a napkin ring. The flower is knit in three parts. Check out the instructions below. And see the closeup photo of the finished flower at the bottom of the page.
Did you play Cat's Cradle as a kid? Well, there's more to string figure art than just Cat's Cradle or Jacob's Ladder. This string art video demonstrates how to make a string figure flower. Song: The Shadows - Apache.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: HELLEBORE [n] A hellebore is any of the approximately 20 plants from the genus Helleborus, many of which are poisonous. Hellebores are herbaceous perennial flowering plants from Eurasia related to the buttercup family, having showy flowers with petaloid sepals.
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Hi All, These little flowers took ages to make, but was well worth it
Just imagine you're on the French Riviera..
Two research teams, in Turkey and Iran, both recently discovered an incredibly rare species of bees. Coined the Osmia (Ozbekosima) avoseta bee, the insects use colorful flower petals to create papier-mache cocoons for their offspring.
An ant camouflaged atop vibrant flowers
Trish Horrington shows how to arrange flowers in a large vase. Using long-stemmed flowers, she shares tips and tricks to assembling the large vase in a quick and efficient way. Watch video for best results. Arrange flowers in a large vase.
In this video, we learn how to make a paper lily pad with a cool pop up flower. First, take a piece of paper and fold it in half, then unfold it and fold the bottom half up to the middle, then fold the top half into the middle. Now take the scissors and cut off the edges, leaving the middle crease. Now, cut down the middle crease and then fold the right half of the crease in half twice. Fold it once more, then flip it over and take half of it and fold it up. Now, take your scissors and cut it...
If grass is creeping into your flowerbeds or you just want a more finished look to your landscaping, try installing brick edging. This landscaping video and text tutorial from the DIY Network will show you the necessary steps to installing brick edging to your flower beds.
Trish Horrington shows how to arrange flowers for a small vase. Using the tools and equipment listed in the video, Trish shows step by step quick and easy tips for arranging the vase. Arrange flowers for a small vase.
I was in Tucson with my family and I had recently bought the MyTouch 4g Slide and was testing out the micro zoom on the 8MP camera. I decided to capture this ant as it was moving along the side walk and captured this stunning image.
Here is a great tutorial on creating stunning moving timelapse shots with this relatively inexpensive piece of equipment.
A great starter cocktail! This particular drink calls for: 1 1/2 ounces of gin, 1 1/2 ounces Pineau des Charentes (1 part Cognac to 3 parts fresh grape juice), a few drops of orange flower water, ice and a twist of lemon to garnish. Make the Full Blonde cocktail for an aperitif.
This is a perfect, vegetarian, light breakfast dish. You will need six eggs, 2 tablespoons heavy cream, 1 tablespoon butter, sea salt, chive flowers, roughly torn spinach and 2 tablespoons goat cheese. Serve with fresh orange juice, coffe and toast! Make creamy scrambled eggs with goat cheese and spinach.
Stunning selection of photographs from French photographer Cedric Pollet's new book, Bark: An Intimate Look at the World’s Trees. The photographer traveled across five continents to capture the the exquisite patterns and textures of the world's many varieties of tree bark.
Japanese artist and visual designer Akira Nakayasu creates robotic plants that not only respond to human touch, but anticipate human touch.
Though photographer Mark Mawson's concept is simple, the results are stunning. In a series entitled Aqueous I and Aqueous II, Mawson took photographs of wet paint dispersed in water. The images evoke jellyfish, or rainbow colored hydrogen bombs. Mawson says:"I had seen lots of ink in water shots and wanted to try something which had more body and which produced more organic forms."
via Jezebel It should not be surprising that social media might allow for our life chronicles to be accessed by those we might not desire in our non-media lives, but some still remain stunned.
Shot on the 7D, filmmaker Euan Preston captured these images of Hong Kong that make me want to travel there immediately. Stunning photography. The slow motion footage was shot at 60P then processed through Twixtor at 25% to get these hauntingly beautiful images.
Wow. The detail is stunning.
Sarah Raven demonstrates how to divide asters to ensure the flower quality doesn't diminish over time.
Follow Monty Don's video advice on pruning shrub roses, including techniques that will keep fungal infection and viruses at bay, while encouraging flowering stems.
Chris Beardshaw demonstrates how to prune an old viburnum, removing sideshoots and woody growth to reinvigorate the plant and encourage flowering.
A whole fish is just as easy to prepare as a fillet, and it makes a stunning presentation. Enjoying it will take just a little more navigation on the part of your guests to avoid the bones, but the flavor imparted by a fish cooked on the bone is worth every extra effort. Eat a whole fish.
Chef Christopher Gross demonstrates how to make a chocolate tower with fresh berries. This mouth-watering dessert, with its chocolate latticework tower topped with fresh berries, is both stunning and elegant. Make a chocolate tower with fresh berries.
In a special case of the 90 degree rule where there is no cut angle, the cue ball will transfer its speed to the object ball on impact. The cue ball will push the object ball into the pocket, but stop before falling in itself. This is known as a "stop shot" or "stun shot". Make the cue ball stop after it hits the object ball.
Cottons balls may not be the most exciting bathroom product in the world, but there are some surprisingly useful things you can do with them.
There's a lot of paper-art, paper-craft, paper-design on the web, but rarely do you see something that truly transcends the material. Stunning paper chandeliers by Dutch artist Paula Arntzen.
Artist Zimoun creates amazing sound sculptures using motors, magnets, compressed air, hoses, woodworms and other materials. Some of the sculptures recreate everyday sounds (rain and sprinklers), others have an unidentifiable, industrial sound to them.
Fashion designer Andreia Chaves of São Paulo has created some optically stunning, "invisible" shoes. Constructed with mirrors, the shoes blend into their environment, chameleon-style.
Bill Beaty's at it again! Our favorite crackpot physicist presents a backyard solution to that emergency need for cryogenic fluid. Sometimes you can't wait to freeze daisies.
Learn a simple way to create dramatic lighting with a sense of humor! You will need a bird cage, a lamp cord with bulb socket, a lightbulb, silk flowers, fake birds, wire, wire ship, some chain, and white electrical tape. Follow along with the step-by-step instructions of this video activity tutorial and learn how to make a bird cage chandelier. Make a bird cage chandelier.
Rosie O'Donnell web show demonstrates an easy and quick way to make decoupage soap. Use dried flower or paper cutouts and glue to add a flare to ordinary soap. Make decoupage soap in Rosie O'Donnell's Crafty U show.
To prepare this Mediterranean eel recipe you will need eel, butter, dry white wine, vermouth, shallots, double cream, cress, capucine flower leafs, red tomatoes, potatoes, olive oil, salt, pepper and sugar. Make Mediterranean eel in a cress sauce.
The Flowergod designs a bridesmaid bouquet with hot pink roses, white tulips, white wax flower, and plumosa. He shows you a great trick to keep tulips from opening up. Light a candle and wax the outside and the inside of the tulip. Make a bridesmaid bouquet.
