HowTo: Make Soap With Bacon
"Fruity hand soaps, moisturizers, emulsifying lotions, pumice stones, and Loofahs don't cut it. We want to cleanse ourselves with the fat of the sweet, dead pig."
"Fruity hand soaps, moisturizers, emulsifying lotions, pumice stones, and Loofahs don't cut it. We want to cleanse ourselves with the fat of the sweet, dead pig."
Martha Stewart shows how a Cyclamen in a customized planter makes a great gift. You will need a clementine box, paintbrush, gray paint, sheet moss, aquarium rocks, cyclamen (available from your local garden shop, or the plant section of your supermarket), ribbon and gift tag. Make a Cyclamen customized planter gift.
Want to wrap your Christmas gifts in a memorable way? Give your gift recipient a DIY super-secret book safe, and while you are at it, hide a small gift inside the the secret safe. Or, if you plan on giving a gift card, create a snow globe out of a mason jar and water and glitter, and insert the gift card at the bottom of the jar so that it is held upright by superglue.
In an ideal world, the art of gift-exchanging is a joyous, wonderful thing that makes both parties feel equally good. But as many of us already know, gift-giving is also an emotionally charged social minefield that can leave many of us feeling... awkward.
Giving a lot of gifts this year? Make your holiday presents even more unique for your recipient by adding a fun, personalized gift tag.
A delicious twist on the traditional pancake! For this recipe, you will need: 2 medium peeled sweet potatoes, 3 eggs, 2 2/4 cups milk, 1/4 cup butter, 2 3/4 cups flour, 2 tablespoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/2 tablespoon salt, cinnamon and mini marshmallows. Make delicious and fluffy sweet potato pancakes.
Plastic Jungle.com offers an awesome service in which you can sell your unused gift cards for cash, other gift cards, and even Facebook credits!
Intro to Camotes Older Filipinos love eating camotes, also known as sweet potato fries, for breakfast. Aside from filling your stomach completely, it also has fewer carbs than regular white rice.
FV Extender for Chrome This is an extension you can download for your the Chrome browser. At this time the extension only accepts and sends back gifts but may do more in the future. See developer's site for more information, and a quick video showing this feature in action.
The Flowergod designs a sweet pea & rose halo for a wedding or luau. The halo includes purple sweet peas, sweetheart roses, and plumosa attached to aluminum wire. Make a Sweet Pea and Rose halo.
Sick of the same boring, holiday-printed, gift wrapping paper for packaging your presents? Using spare cardboard, make a pyramid-shaped gift box for your unusually-shaped item. Or, transform your spare empty cereal boxes into fancy custom-made gift boxes.
Auto accept facebook requests and gift back to your friends! In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can auto accept Facebook requests and gift back to your friends. If you're like me and get hundreds of Facebook requests each day - this will be a life saver. You'll be able to focus on playing the Facebook games - and let GiftAuto handle the rest.
These boxes are great for small gifts, and you can make them at home. You will need a craft knife, a square ruler, a cutting mat, heavy paper (approximately 6 inche by six inches) and Dura-Lar paper or sheets of clear acetate. Make a home made gift box for Christmas or holiday presents.
Learn how to grow sweet pea plants from seed with Monty Don's step-by-step video advice. 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. Sow sweet peas from seed.
Chef Leah Chase demonstrates how to make sweet potato pie; A simple yet delicious pastry with a pecan pie crust. Make sweet potato pie.
Yeah baby! That's right, 1960's, retro style motion graphics. You want em, you need em and this tutorial with Angie Taylor of Red Giant TV shows YOU how to get them by using PlaneSpace, Text Anarchy, Trapcode Echospace and Warp! Shagadelic baby! Create retro-style motion graphics for a sweet 1960's look with After Effects.
The possibilities are infinite when it comes to DIY gift wrap. Instead of the usual Christmas-themed wrapping paper, make your packaging look funky with old maps, music sheets, calendars, and other material to encase your loved ones' presents.
Got some gifts that you don't need? Now you can Re-Gift them! Click the purple re-gift button and you'll get this little popup
Searching for a Valentine's Day gift? Great. That means you have someone to share V-Day with this coming Monday. And you want to get the best gift to show your love. But c'mon—no matter what you get, it's probably enough to woo your lover over, even if it's as simple as a battery and magnet.
A perfect example of California fusion cuisine! For this recipe, you will need: 1/4 cup peppercorns, 1/2 cup coriander seeds, 1/2 cup fennel seeds, 1/4 cup salt, 2 pounds unsalted butter, juice and zest of 3 limes, 1 1/2 cups of pureed chipotle chilis in adobo, canola oil, 12 fresh chicken wings and 1/4 cup Thai sweet chili sauce. Make a batch of sweet and spicy chipotle chicken wings.
Chef Madhur Jaffrey demonstrates how to make minty sweet and sour eggplant. Eggplant, prepared with cumin seeds, cayenne pepper and fresh mint leaves, makes an ideal appetizer or side dish. This Middle Eastern dish is best served a side dish. Make minty sweet and sour eggplant.
Though the holiday season is just wrapping up, don't throw away your torn leftover gift wrap paper just yet. Whether for next year's holiday season or for year-round use, leftover gift wrap can be reused for a variety of creative and practical uses.
This video teaches how to make a gift box for Fathers' Day out of chipboard or cardboard. Learn how to fold, cut, trim, and decorate a gift box in the shape of a tool box for Dad. Make a cardboard Fathers' Day tool box gift box.
These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold paper sweet corn Japanese style. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper sweet corn. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video if it is going too slow. Very cool Japanese origami how-to video! Origami sweet corn Japanese style.
This sweet little knitted heart cushion is easy to create and makes a lovely gift. It can also be used as a sachet. Here are the directions.
Don't let the word "healthy" in the title turn you off - in fact, sweet potato fries are one of the rare foods that both taste like an explosion of perfection in your mouth and also do your body good.
Chef Johanne Killeen demonstrates how to make sweet and savory baby cakes - pecan, rhubarb, and rose geranium flavored pound cakes. She uses brown sugar and melted butter and then adds bourbon to make these sweet baby cakes. Make sweet and savory baby cakes.
Nexus owners in the United States are eligible to grab an easy $20 e-gift card from Best Buy this holiday season. All you have to do is install the Android Pay app and use it to make a purchase at one of the million-plus participating merchants through December 31st, 2015.
This holiday season, get yourself a bunch of mason jars. With a little crafty effort and inexpensive supplies, you can transform an empty glass jar into an endless possibility of DIY gifts catered to your gift recipient's personality and interests.
Last year and the year before that, I gave some suggestions on DIY holiday gifts that you could make for family and friends, and this year, I wanted to follow up with even more Christmas gift ideas.
So it is Christmas Eve and you are just getting started on your Christmas gift shopping. Thankfully, even for the last-minute Christmas gift shopper, you have a good variety of options to choose from within driving distance or on the internet without worrying about shipping costs or waiting in ridiculously long lines at the mall.
A elegant dessert from the American South! For this recipe, you will need: 1 1/2 cups flour, 3/4 cup vegetable shortening, 3 tablespoons cold water, 2 egg yolks, 1/8 teaspoon salt, 2 cups cooked and mashed sweet potatoes, 2 eggs, 1 cup sour cream, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/4 cup butter, 1/4 cup raisns and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Bake a delicious Southern style sweet potato pie.
The souffle can be a finicky dish, prone to collapse. But if it can survive the baking, it'll be a delicious dessert, perfect at the end of any meal. You will need butter, flour, sugar, milk, eggs, orange zest and Grand Marnier. Make the perfect sweet souffle at home.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make sweet and sour pork short ribs. The ingredients required are pork short ribs, 1/2 of onion, 1/2 of garlic and 1/2 of ginger. Prepare the sauce by mixing together soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar and salt. Place the short ribs into a plastic bag and add some flour. Mix it inside the bag and then saute or deep fry the ribs until they are golden brown in color. Cook both sides. Then add in the garlic, onion and ginger. Now add in the sauce mixture ...
What's better than melted marshmallow goodness on top of sweet potatoes? This great Thanksgiving dinner side is delicious and easy to make! Follow along with this cooking how-to video to learn how-to bake sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows.
Eureka! I ve seen the future, and it is Friendly Game SimplifierFriendly Gaming Simplifier is an add-on to the Foxfire or Chrome browsers. You can download a version for either one here: http://rzadki.eu/projects/fgs/ You don’t have to play FrontierVille through Firefox or Chrome to use it; it shows up as a tab on your Facebook wall.It will also accept the sort of gifts that usually go straight to your FrontierVille Utilities. You’ll still have to accept Game Requests, but Botoholic’s Gift Bo...
Free Tree Gift Request Links With the new orchards and tree mastery system everyone is looking for more trees! As wishlist requests often end up with errors, I've created this list that will provide links you can put your ID into allowing people to send you the item without getting the "gifterror=notfound" message.
Here is an idea for a nice smelling homemade christmas gift. This video will show you how to make rose petal soap in a matter of minutes. Remember you can use items other than rose petals! Supplies needed: fake roses, alligator clips, scissors, tall glass, fragrances, glycerin melt and pour soap. Make homemade christmas gift from rose petal soap.
Time is running out. Christmas is almost here, and you still haven't worked your way through that holiday shopping list yet. But don't worry, there's hope yet— thanks to social buying websites like Groupon, LivingSocial, SocialBuy, Eversave, Tippr and BuyWithMe.
Last year, I wrote a post on "10 Thrifty DIY Christmas Gift Ideas" for people looking to get crafty during the gift-giving season. It seemed only right to do a followup this year with 10 more ideas!