How To: Make a simple orchid silk flower arrangement
The art of floral arrangement is a fun & valuable skill. Dana Plazyk lends useful tips and tricks on making simple flower arrangements.
The art of floral arrangement is a fun & valuable skill. Dana Plazyk lends useful tips and tricks on making simple flower arrangements.
Rob "Riki Tiki" Roy mixes up another cocktail, with fire! You will need sugar, Bacardi 151 rum, floral tea, amaretto, Grand Marnier, white creme de cacao, and whipping cream. Watch this video beverage-making tutorial and learn how to mix a blackout cocktail.
A funky hippie-chic necklace with a floral focal bead to help bring summer into your life. For this project you will need cord or thong, beads, a jump ring, eye pins, head pins, cord tips, jump rings, and necklace findings. Learn how to make this hippie chic necklace by watching this video jewelry-making tutorial.
This tutorial teaches you how to make an adorable flower arrangement with Six Minute Style host Susan Doherty. This easy and beautiful arrangement of roses is perfect as a centerpiece or gift.
Do you love orchids but do not want to spend $50 just to have an orchid flower centerpiece? Watch this video tutorial by Better TV to learn how to create a floral arrangement that won't break the bank.
Say it with cupcakes! Chef Alison McLoughlin of The Culinary Institute of America has a great suggestion: create a beautiful "bouquet" of floral cupcakes for any festive celebration. Watch this tutorial to get useful ideas on how to bake and decorate your own cupcake creations.
Set a perfectly beautiful Thanksgiving Table! This step-by-step guide from Julie Mulligan shows you just what to do to create an unforgettable table this Thanksgiving Day! In this video, Julie teaches how to create beautiful placemats using fresh flowers.
The Flowergod creates a flower anklet for a wedding or luau. The anklet includes sweetheart roses, pink miniature carnations, plumosa, and a feather ankle bracelet. Use only floral glue which dries very fast.
Tired of spending money on short-lived fresh flowers? Floral Guru Jill Slater has oodles of helpful hints on conditioning fresh-cut flowers to keep them beautiful for days—even weeks—longer.
Wet-plate collodion photography is a process that lets you develop a photo onto a piece of glass. It has some neat applications, but it's not a simple process, and most people use a special camera to do it because the silver nitrate used to process usually ends up leaking, which would ruin a regular camera.
This tutorial by the Floral Design Institute demonstrates how to create a hand-tied Calla bridal bouquet. The key to creating this bouquet is to make sure your flowers are properly prepared. The flowers should be fully hydrated (in water for at least two hours). Take each flower and mold each stem to to reflect the natural curve of the flower. Lay them side by side so they are lined up in a parallel fashion. Give even pressure on the stem to prevent bends or kinks. Some stems may be straight ...
Today's Tech shows you how to fix a cell phone or computer that has gotten wet or jammed. With a wet cell phone, you must act quickly or it may be permanently damaged. The first thing you should do after pulling it out of the water is to take the battery and SIM card out. Dry both of them off. If you drop it in a liquid that is not water, rinse them off quickly. If you have a vacuum cleaner handy, you can use it to suck the water off. You can also place the phone on top of your cable box. Wai...
This is a quick & easy hairstyling tutorial on how to get curls without heat. All you need is hair clips, bobby pins and Evian spray if you don't want to get your hair wet from the shower.
Nothing is worse than having a contact slide under your eyelid. Okay, there are worse things. But this is one you easily can avoid. Check out this Howcast video tutorial on how to put in and remove contact lenses.
Who better to learn how to apply TV news makeup from than an actual TV news anchor? Emily Noel is a famous TV news anchor with several years in the biz, and she's here with this makeup tutorial to show you exactly how to get that flawless, shine-free TV anchor look you see in most news broadcasts.
Despite how she's usually portrayed in popular culture, Medusa (the lady with snakes growing out of her head) was once a beautiful woman. She was cursed by Athena, however, to spend eternity as a horrid snake monster, ergo the nasty scales and snake crown.
The archenemies of cell phones— puddles, toilets, swimming pools— can cause serious damage to your gadgets. And if your mobile phone has taken the dive, don't panic— there's hope for recovery.
Urban Decay has a nasty habit of releasing highly anticipated makeup palettes in very limited quantities so they sell like hotcakes. Their most recent palette, NAKED, sold out in seconds on their website, but if you were one of the lucky ones to snatch one of these up, then this tutorial will teach you how to create a smokin' hot look using the palette.
As a mom and now in her late 20s, Christina Aguilera sports classy and age appropriate makeup, attending red carpets with classic ruby lips and light cat eyes.
This video by Chef Cook Leins from NoTimeToCook.com will teach you a speedy and fun way to cook chicken. This video teaches you how to make both fried and oven roasted chicken tenders. Start with about a pound of chicken tenders and a breading center. Mix all the dry ingredients together as directed by the recipe and then in a separate bowl mix all the wet ingredients together as directed as well. Dip the chicken tenders in the wet egg mixture and leave it there for just a minute. After the c...
Removing the garlic smell from your hands can be a very difficult thing to do. Sometimes you just can't stand the smell. Maybe you have a date and don't want to stink, but just can't get that smell out of your skin. There is a way to neutralize the odor so that you can get on with your life. After you get done cooking with either garlic or onions or any other stinky food, run your hands under some warm water. Then get some coffee grounds and mash them up and get them wet. Once the grounds are...
This video by WallpaperOnWalls shows you how to remove a paperback vinyl wallpaper without using a scoring tool. Although the use of the scoring tool is common practice the tool is not always necessary and these tools might cause damage to your walls. To easily remove the front of the wall paper use the wallpaper wetting agent and remove the wallpaper coating as shown. Wet the wallpaper backing with the wallpaper removal pump sprayer and wetting agent as shown and leave standing as recommende...
Try using a blowtorch to dry the outer portion of a ceramic pot. While the clay is still on the pottery wheel, cut light marks into the outer wall of the pot. Dry the outermost layer of wet clay with a blowtorch. When you continue to stretch and form the wet clay on the wheel, witness an interesting cracking effect.
Keep your wet shaving materials in working condition with these tips. This is a great video for wet shaving on the go.
Wet sanding is a process used to remove some of the finish from a car's paint job. This instructional series of videos will show you how to wet sand your car. Pretty soon, you'll be an automotive expert and wet sanding like a pro.
This video shows you how to make a wet mount that will determine if a person has yeast infection.
No time in the morning to style your hair? Jim Pastrone, "The Hair Guy," begs to differ. He can show even the busiest person how to go from wet locks to wonderful tresses in less than 10 minutes.
If you're running low on time in the morning but still want to look polished rather than ragtag, then there is a way for you to save time while styling a beautiful mane.
In this tutorial, Simon Leach teaches us how to make lidded boxes. First, grab your pot and dip the top of it into water to get it wet and soft. Now, grab a small amount of clay and set it on your spinning table. After this, get your hands wet and start to craft a lid out of the clay. Make an inner base as you are spinning the clay by carefully placing your finger on the side of the top. When finished spinning, place the top down and see if it's the correct size for the pot, then glaze and fi...
Have you ever heard of wet felting? Well, it's the oldest form of textile making and relatively easy to work, thanks to this tutorial by ThreadBanger. Learn how to create a classic-looking beret for this winter season. No sewing required!
With feminine florals being one of the hottest spring and summer trends, it's often recommended by the fashion elite - including Tim Gunn - that more masculine elements be included in your outfits to balance out floral girliness.
In this tutorial video, Jane from Afloral.com shows you how to make a floral centerpiece using centerpiece risers and design dishes. This flower centerpiece is great for any occasion.
In this tutorial video, Sandy from Afloral.com show you how to make a beautiful oblong centerpiece. This is a great centerpiece for holidays or birthdays or other occasions.
This video demonstrates how to make a greeting card using card stock, scrapbook paper, a stamped image and a stamped sentiment. Ribbon and a floral embellishment add the finishing touches to any greeting card. Learn how to make this beautiful card by watching this crafting how-to video today!
Corinne Bradd helps Kristy Clarke get to grips with the tricky art of quilling. Using thin strips of brightly coloured paper and a quilling tool, she shows how simple it is to coil gorgeous, dimensional floral motifs.
Little girls are always in a rush to look just like their mommies. Just think pint-sized fashionistas like Suri Cruz and Courtney Cox's daughter Coco, who was recently caught by the paps wearing the same ruby lipstick as her mommy on a stroll. While we don't think that wearing makeup is all that age appropriate for a five year old, beautiful, youthful hairstyles are.
Tinder is difficult to come by in the best of conditions, but in a damp wilderness survival situation finding it can be downright impossible. Enter this video. It will teach you how to make solid fuel fire starters out of cotton balls and candle wax, which you can use to start a fire even in wet conditions.
Thanks to Sookie Stackhouse, whose fairy lineage was revealed recently in season 3 of "True Blood," fairies are hotter than ever, and after so much blood, gore, and overall gruesomeness with our culture's fascination with vamps and werewolves, it's nice to finally bring pretty back.
This by far one of the most elegant and beautiful cards we've ever seen in a card making tutorial, and we've seen a lot of cards. Rather than tacking on cheesy mass-produced floral prints and little butterflies and other odds and ends that just distract, this Christmas card focuses on minimalist beauty.
If you're into folding origami paper flowers, then this is a must-have addition. You can't just fold the flower portion and expect it to be done!