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Hey Everyone! Long time no see and happy late new year! Here’s something different for a tutorial. Let me know if this is something that you’d like to see more of in the future.

head to blog for materials used:

http://www.labellemel.com/2012/01/diy-feathered-alexander-mcqueens.html

Music by my awesome friend:
Lily Bee: Unattainable

http://www.youtube.com/lilianbui

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What are some DIY projects that you adore? (clothes/hair wise)

tutorials?

Thank you!
Lol, please read the question . I said clothes or otherwise, don’t be a smart allelic. (:

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This week BFX is taking a break from building and instead giving you an update in our new host search AND giving you some hilarious bloopers!Indy Mogul’s Backyard FX features cheap, DIY filmmaking tips and tutorials including special effects, props, and camera equipment.  Build episodes on Mondays and Original Short test films on Tuesdays featuring the build.  Website:  http://www.indymogul.comSubmit:  http://www.indymogul.com/submitTwitter:  http://www.twitter.com/indymogulFacebook:  http://www.facebook.com/indymogul

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I bought my mom 2 wii games for Christmas but i want to add a touch of homemade to it so I want to make gift boxes out of paper for each of them. Tried to find out online How to do this but nothing is showing up. Anybody know how? Or know a website that has a tutorial or dimensions?

try this:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-box-with-paper/

good luck! your mom’s lucky =)

This is a cheaper and alternative glitter shoe compared to the pricey brand names at the mall! This is my first tutorial/DIY video so sorry if I’m being awkward!

Materials:
- glitter (any color)
- shoes (any old or new pair of shoes you want to glitterfy!)
- permanent fabric glue
- sponge tip paintbrush
- hairspray or spray-on-glue

Instructions:
1) Make a pasty medium with a squirt of glue and glitter. Also, put a napkin in your shoe so that the glitter won’t go in it.
2) In small sections, use the sponge tip paintbrush to smoothly and evenly spread the glitter paste onto the shoe.
3) Put glitter on the shoe while the glue is still wet.
4) Using your fingers, lightly press the glitter down onto the glue so that it will stick.
5) Tap off excess.
6) Spray hairspray all over the shoe.
7) Put a second layer of glitter and spray hairspray all over again. (Optional)
Let dry for 24 hours.
I also heard that spray-on-glue might even be better, so try that!

I really hope this video helped you! Credits go to pursebuzz – check her videos out too!

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I want to buy a house in the next few years, and I want to learn to do some home improvements and upgrades on my own. Right now, I don’t know any. I was wondering if working at Home Depot or Lowe’s would help me. What are some other options to learn about DIY home improvements? I don’t really learn too well by watching tutorials on internet. I need to actually do it to learn. Thanks

Assuming you could get a job at one of the home centers, you could possibly learn a few things by listening to other, more experienced associates as they help customers, but I’m not sure you would be put on the sales floor, and are much more likely to be hired as a cashier, lot guy, or garden center helper. When I worked for 6 years at Home Depot, I was already an experienced cabinetmaker and carpenter so I tried to pick up what I could in departments I wasn’t as skilled in like electrical and plumbing. But that was when the company was still being run by the founders and they hired people with actual experience in the building trades. They went away from that, but may have returned to that policy to some extent in the past couple of years.

You certainly won’t lose any information by working there, but they really aren’t looking for people they can train to know more about home improvement. They want associates who know something about the products they sell and How to develop repeat business by giving good, sensible advice.

Like RavenSpeak said, Habitat for Humanity might be a much better way to pick up a lot of knowledge and experience in a short amount of time while also doing good work for your community.

You can also volunteer at a local community theater group because there is a lot of practical carpentry, electrical, and even plumbing involved in scenery and prop construction. I’ve been building things for a large theater company for the past 3 seasons as a full time job and have built on my years of experience as a cabinetmaker and furniture builder. You can learn a lot by helping out and you also have the satisfaction of helping an arts organization.

Another way to get better is to do research and by adding to your tool collection. You don’t need fancy laser tools with brass and rosewood handles, but you should avoid the crap in the discount bins at the Dollar Store, too. Poorly made tools are often dangerous, inaccurate, and difficult to use, especially when compared to good ones. Craftsman (Sears and Kmart), Husky (Home Depot), Kobalt (Lowe’s), Stanley (everywhere), are all lifetime guaranteed and more than adequate for most homeowners. Buy decent tools and start building your toolbox. Then start using them, being careful to read and follow all safety warnings. Get some lumber and plywood and begin building things. Experience is the best teacher, though a local community college might also be a place to look into. You can learn from experienced professionals and save yourself a lot of walking that you would have to do if you worked at a home center.

Of course, if you need the extra income, one of the big boxes isn’t a bad way to go. I have friends that have been at Home Depot for many years, both part time and full, but I’m not sure how much any of them have learned about home improvement as a result. Good luck and look into Habitat for Humanity – no experience necessary and they welcome everyone willing to help.

This week, Backyard FX shows you How to create an Alien Hand from District 9 for just $20 dollars!  Grab a can of cat food for a snack and prepare to be entertained and amazed! Indy Mogul’s Backyard FX I features cheap, DIY filmmaking tips and tutorials including special effects, props, and camera equipment.  Build episodes on Mondays and Original Short test films on Tuesdays featuring the build.   Website:  http://www.indymogul.com Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/indymogul Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/indymogul

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I’m renovating my room and I have a limited budget…but I really love the maskros lamp from IKEA, the one that looks like a giant dandelion. It would be great for my room! However, I really dont want to/cant play $50 for it. Ive searched all through the internet trying to find a way to make the pendant lamp myself, and i cant find anything. Can someone help me? Do you know how I can make this from scratch? Im not very good with electricity…..I can install a light fixture/ceiling fan but thats it….Do you know of a DIY Tutorial for making the lamp from scratch?

Start with a basic ceiling fixture, so you don’t have to do any of the electrical/structural design work. See the URL below for a true-cheapie at Home Depot.

I just found out via wikipedia that on the flower head, the white puffy seeds are called achene, and other technical names for different pieces, but here I’ll call them the seed head and the stem, since when enlarged that’s about what they look like.

The stem, you could make maybe out of a white plastic straw. The thinner the better. The *length* of the straw will determine how *many* seed heads you can/need to use. Meaning too few and it will look thin and sparse. Too many the seed heads will be too small to look attractive, or if they’re too large it’ll look crowded. If you’ve seen this thing at IKEA that’ll give you an idea about the dimensions of different pieces.

The seed head is cut out in a shape like flower petals. A large lamp, 50 of these is a lot of material, and the intent is to keep the cost down.The material must be thin enough to be translucent and light or it could get very heavy. Craft store might have something, but it’s not going to be cheap to make ‘a lot’ of them. 2mm/3mm depron is available at hobby stores, very light, translucent, easy to cut out with a hobby knife. The second URL will give you an idea of what this kind of material costs.

Materials are the easy part. *ASSEMBLING* it is the hard part!!! The IKEA lamp has all sorts of custom molded plastic pieces, that’s what makes it easy. About the only thing I can think of is silicone, but the difficulty is that you need to glue each straw to the globe, and *support* it steadily for the 24 hrs it takes to set up properly. You could put down a dot of glue, poke a straw in, add a few pieces of masking take to hold it up till the next day, and then remove the tape. Maybe you could do half a dozen of these a day till they’re all done. There’s no ‘precision’ here, unlike the IKEA, but random/natural looks cool too since it is intended to simulate a natural object. Once a few stems are glued down, those can be used to tape-support more stems.

The seed heads you would add after all the stems are installed, again with silicone, and again with support till the silicone sets up.

This will be very time consuming but very very cool looking when done. If you do this I suggest you take a series of pics along the way and write up a blog or make a slideshow vid to help other people do the same thing.