Want to be on top of the trends this winter season? Circle scarfs are in now, and they are super easy to make! All you need is two yards of your favorite fabric, then sew it into a tube to create your own scarf.
Layering becomes a necessary skill to know during the fall and winter, when it's nigh impossible to get away with wearing just your favorite dress or t-shirt and nothing else.
Glazing your windows can provide a nice decorative touch while keeping heat inside in the winter and outside during the summer. Watch this video to learn how to glaze your own windows and get this home improvement job done yourself.
Kids and former kids all grew up dreaming about perfect Christmases filled with snow, toys, and of course, Christmas cookies and treats! Christmas is not Christmas without a sprinkling of holiday goodies like cookies, candies, and pastries.
Standing on thin is not perhaps the smartest thing to do during the winter, but miniature tableaus of cute chubby animals standing amongst evergreen trees on a layer of ice are just genius!
A daring look for Halloween that'll work for a Lady Gaga costume or to complement a sexy salsa dancer costume, this Lady Gaga-inspired makeup look involves hot pink eye tones and a glued on lace eyepatch that's almost "Phantom of the Opera"-like.
Transition your makeup look from fall to winter with help from this video By Lauren Luke. Learn how to apply an adorable snow bunny inspired makeup look with the help of something that has saved women across the globe from dark undereye circles and blotchy skin: makeup. Steal this wintery look with this step-by-step makeup application guide.
The fine folks at The Pathfinder School present what they call a spring tune-up for for you knife techniques, which have presumable deteriorated during the winter. The host is trying out a new knife he has been asked to test, and uses it to make a trap knotch and drill into a log, among other things.
Don't pay retail prices for store bought socks! Gear up for the winter and make your own knit socks at home. This six part video tutorial takes you through every phase of knitting socks with detailed instructions along the way.
Make your holidays DIY and save yourself some money. Follow this video to learn how to make two types of holiday wreaths. Learn from Meg as she shows us how to make a mossy Christmas wreath, held together by little mushrooms for a personal touch. She also gives us some great tips on making a cinnamon stick covered wreath. Perk up the kitchen with the spicy aroma of cinnamon for the holidays.
This isn't your grandma's paper snowflake! Get creative and add a new dimension to your winter decorations. You will need two 8 by 8 inch pieces of white paper, a pair of scissors, a stapler, string, glitter, glue and iridescent cellophane. This is a fun holiday craft project. Makes a nice Christmas decoration.
This holiday season, become a wrap artist! Learn how to make every Christmas present look festive, no matter what shape or size. Wrapping Christmas gifts can be quite the bore, but when you add a little artfulness, it could be more fun than ripping it off and finding your present.
What’s the holiday season without a glass of creamy eggnog? Can you even remember a Christmas when everybody wasn't drunk off eggnog? Well, this year, instead of buying eggnog from a carton and simply spiking it with a little alcohol, learn to make your own.
Learn how to make this fun Christmas craft! Make a Christmas ornament from a pine cone by wrapping the top with wire, applying hot glue to the edges and sprinkling glitter over the entire thing for a winter effect. Add holly to the top of a pine cone ornament with instructions from an experienced craftswoman in this free video on Christmas crafts.
One of the most popular fabrics to embroider on during the winter holidays is velvet. Learn about stabilizer choice, needle choice, and how to get great results when embroidering on this kind of fabric. This instructional video will demonstrate everything necessary for embroidering on velvet fabric.
Open work makes a project go really fast. You might not be the warmest on a cold winter night, but it still looks nice. An open work stitch is basically a three to two configuration. This is the perfect beginner's project. These crochet blankets will keep you warm but won't stifle you.
Sempervivum or Houseleeks are extremely hearty breed of succulent plants that can grow in very arid areas. Sempervivum are a great plant to have because they require very little care. In this garden tutorial, Martin Fish from Garden News demonstrates how to create a simple & effective Sempervivum pot that will look good throughout the Winter.
This tutorial cooking video will teach you to cook root vegetables. These cooking ideas for vegetables are delicious for the winter time.
This how to video teaches you to cut ornamental grasses back in the spring to promote great summer growth. In the summer ornamental grasses look gorgeous, but after the winter these grasses are dry and are a fire hazard. Watch this video and learn how to easily prune your ornamental grasses.
Rita Heikenfeld, from AboutEating.com, had a bumper crop of peppers this year. In this how-to video she shows you how to save pepper seeds from one of her garden favorites, the jalapeño. Pepper seeds can easily be dried and stored over the winter to be grown in the spring. They let you save your heirloom seeds for next year.
Pickled peppers are a great way to preserve your garden harvest. From spicy to sweet, this recipe will be a great treat on a cold winter day. Pickling jalapeño peppers, Anaheims, bell peppers really, any pepper is good for pickling. This how to video shows you an easy pickling recipe that requires very little time and won't keep you in the kitchen canning all day.
Freezing tomatoes is a great way to store tomatoes to use all winter long. Tomatoes are great in soups or stews, freezing tomatoes help stretch the summer a bit longer. In how to video, Rita shows you how to freeze and use tomatoes from your garden.
In this tutorial video, you will learn to cook black bean stew. This stew is great for any time, but especially the winter. You will need a pressure cooker for this recipe.
This tutorial Korean cooking video will teach you to make a yummy chicken soup. This ginseng chicken soup is great for the winter.
Bob Schmidt shows you how to handle a common problem that can occur when you have a truss style roof in your home. Expansion and contraction of roof trusses causing truss lift in winter. Interior wall gapped corner,open corner,rising and falling corner ceiling.
Want to be more like Carson Williams this Christmas? Well, that means having a highly decorated house, full of Christmas lights and other holiday decorations, but that's not all... having your Christmas lights synchronized with your favorite holiday jingle or Yuletide tune is the key.
Bike Racks on Buses Have no fear! The bike racks on the front of Muni and other regional buses are easy to use - just check out this short video how-to, brought to you by DPT's Bicycle Program, and Brian McCarthy and Dave Winters of Muni.
Prepare for winter by learning how to use chains with your semi.
This thick, creamy winter soup cooks up in just 35 minutes and makes a hearty main course.
Check out this video with Bob Davies to learn how to paint watercolor trees. These videos will cover everything from paint selection, painting distant, winter, and summer trees, and techniques.
Make a simple vegetable soup for those cold winter days, watch the video and learn how.
This video from Garden Time shows you how to use a cold frame to protect your outdoor plants from the winter months.
Brandon goes into the wilderness to shoot video in the snow. He demonstrates which situations to avoid and which provide ideal opportunities for great looking winter videos.
Looking to create a great centerpiece that will dress up your table for all teh winter holidays? We have some tips for a local 'award winning' expert.
There's nothing like grilled fish in the winter time. Watch this video for an easy recipe and some good seafood grilling tips.
Extend the life of your gardening tools using these simple cleaning techniques. This is most important when you're putting tools away for winter.
This video shows you how to create a great look for fall or winter with copper and green eyeshadow.
While it is a classic winter dish, it’s delicious anytime of the year, and the ingredients are easy to find no matter what the season. Secondly, summer cooking is all about quick and easy, and this one-dish recipe definitely qualifies. Remember “braised” doesn’t always mean slow-cooked. Lastly, what a great reminder to enjoy every wonderfully warm second of this summer, because before you realize it you’ll be raking leaves in a sweater.
A short video looking at the winter constellation Orion and some of the interesting deep space objects it contains. When you look into space you are looking back into time.
What's the perfect Christmas drink for this holiday season... a candy cane martini. This festive winter drink is perfect for all of your holiday parties, even if it's Christmas in July that you're celebrating, or even Hanukkah. Watch as Art of the Drink's Anthony Caporale as he teaches you how to make this Candy Cane Christmas Martini.
