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DIY Hand Sanitizer Tutorials

Katar — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:00:01 +0000

I don’t know how I manage to get sick over 10 times a year, but I do. I even obsessively wash my hands and carry around hand sanitizer! I must have the weakest immune system ever.

If you’re crazy like me and need hand sanitizer constantly, the cost of buying it all the time really adds up. Why not make your own, instead?

And hey – this dude on YouTube says a lot of store-bought hand sanitizers are bad! Hand Sanitizers Cause Hundreds of Child Poisonings: WCVBtv on YouTube

Below, there are so many different ways that you can make hand sanitizer. Honestly, I don’t even know which one I should try or which one will be the most effective. But at least I can research more easily now!

Click on the photo or link to get the tutorial. Stay well!

Tutorials:

Natural Hand Sanitizer: Pepper Paints - this tutorial link has step-by-step photos, yay!

Make Your Own Hand Sanitizer: Lestout

Make Your Own Natural Hand Sanitizer: Rodale

Make Your Own Eco-Friendly, Germ-Annihilating Hand Sanitizer: LifeHacker

How to Make a Natural Antibacterial Hand Sanitizer: FireHow

How to Make Hand Sanitizer: TVLesson

Make Your Own Healthy Hand Sanitizer: NBC New York

DIY Hand Sanitizer and Surface Disinfectant Spray: EcoSalon

How to Make Your Own All-Natural Hand Sanitizer: Curbly

Make Your Own Hand Sanitizer: PrissyGreen

Make Your Own Waterless Hand Sanitizer: LearnHub

Make Your Own Hand Sanitizer: FitSugar

Make Your Own Hand Sanitizer: TreeHugger

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. I obviously need them!

Also, if you know of any recipes that work better than others, I’d love to hear what you have to say!

Thanks!

DIY Christmas Recipe Tutorials

Katar — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:00:22 +0000

I absolutely hate making ‘boring’ food, as I enjoy calling it. If I’m gonna bake, the end result has to look like something! This post includes a ton of recipes that serves as an edible display that is interesting to look at. I think I may need to borrow my fiance’s nieces to make some of these some weekend!

I just love these recipes – they all look yummy and really fun to make! Click on the photo to get the how to.

For a huge list of Christmas desserts from Family Fun, check out their Delicious Christmas Desserts Recipes

Appetizer Tutorials:

Christmas Package Cheese Snack: FamilyFun

Cheese Ball Santa: FamilyFun

Frosty the Cheese Ball: FamilyFun

Mini Bagel Wreaths: FamilyFun

Chocolate Church Mice: FamilyFun

Chocolate Cherry Mice: FamilyFun

Jolly Snowman Bread: FamilyFun

Crunchy the Snowman: FamilyFun

Wrap 'n' Stack Sandwich Tree: FamilyFun

Pizza Pocket Wreath: FamilyFun

Pine Tree Fruit Kabobs: FamilyFun

Candy Tutorials:

Jelly Bean Christmas Trees: FamilyFun

Red-Nosed Reindeer Lollipops: FamilyFun

Cookie Tutorials:

Nutter Butter Rudolph: NapTimeCrafting

Holiday Hello Cookies: FamilyFun

A Light Dessert: FamilyFun

Sweet Tortilla Snowflakes: FamilyFun

The Elves' Snickerdoodles: FamilyFun

Sweet Macaroon Angels: FamilyFun

Sugar Cookie Windows and Doors: FamilyFun

Santa Hats: FamilyFun

Santa Hat Sugar Cookies: FamilyFun

Santas and Heavenly Angels: FamilyFun

Mint Cookie Pops: FamilyFun

Meringue Snowflakes: FamilyFun

Kris Kringle Cookies: FamilyFun

Holiday Wreaths: FamilyFun

Candy Cane Cookies: FamilyFun

Frosty Graham Crackers: FamilyFun

Gingerbread Family Kit: FamilyFun

Cupcake Tutorials:

Snowman Cupcakes: Martha Stewart

Donut Tutorials:

Doughnut Snowmen: FamilyFun

Drink Tutorials:

Hot Chocolate Cones: FamilyFun

Marshmallow Tutorials:

Candy Cane Marshmallows: Martha Stewart

Homemade Chocolate Chip Marshmallows: CraftZine

Popcorn Tutorials:

Peppermint Popcorn: Make it Do

Popcorn Ball Ornaments: FamilyFun

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

DIY Gift Tag Tutorials

Katar — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:00:34 +0000

Yay for gift tags! If only I had the time to make all of these wonderful things. Maybe I should start crafting in July!

These tutorials will help you make your Christmas gifts even more special. These crafters are so talented! Click on the photo to get the how to.

Looking for more Christmas tutorials? Simply check out my blog archive for Christmas!

Gift Tag Tutorials:

Punched Snowflake Gift Tags: Martha Stewart

Making Christmas Tags Out of Old Greeting Cards: Altered Stuff

Christmas Gift Tags for Bridge Lovers: A Spoonful of Sugar

Quick Christmas Gift Tags: A Spoonful of Sugar

Soap Christmas Tags: The Soap Queen

How to Make Vintage Photo Gift Tags: Nice Package

Personalized Gift Tags: Can't Stop Making Things

Last Minute Christmas Tags: inchmark

Recycled Christmas Cards to Gift Tags: Fat Bottom Bags

Music Note Gift Tags: Blue Cricket Design

Fabric Gift Tags: Brown Paper Packages

Button Gift Tags: Bugs and Fishes

Recycled Gift Tags: Craft

Yuletide gift tags: a blender pen tutorial: poppytalk

Easy Christmas Gift Tags: kelly jo's stamp pad

How To - Mini LP Record Gift Tags: Dude Craft

Funky Gift Tags: Blue Cricket Design

Printable Gift Tags:

Free Lace-Patterned Labels and Gift Tags: Creature Comforts

Make Mini Gift Tags Using Free Clip Art From Soft Flex Company: SoftFlexGirl

Clip Art Gift Tags: Blue Cricket Design

Inspiration, Ideas, and Photos:

Glittered Gift Tags: Susie Harris

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

DIY Thanksgiving and Fall Recipe Tutorials

Katar — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:00:35 +0000

Here are some visually pleasing recipes to make for Thanksgiving or for fall in general! Click on the photo to go to the ‘how to.’

Appetizer Tutorials:

Harvest Canapes: jloukotaleimback

Cake Tutorials:

Acorn Cake: Bright Ideas

Bake a Turkey-Shaped Cake: CraftZine

Candy Tutorials:

Edible Arrangement Thanksgiving Centerpiece: Roots and Wings Co.

Cookie Tutorials:

Thanksgiving Cookie Turkeys Recipe: Serious Seats

Oreo Cookie Turkeys for Thanksgiving: Make and Takes

Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies: WalMart

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Turkey: Thrifty Fun

Oreo Cookie Turkeys: The Idea Room

Donut Tutorials:

Acorn Dough Nuts: Family Fun

Rice Krispies Tutorials:

Rice Crispy Turkeys You'll Gobble Up: Alpha Mom

Side Tutorials:

Homemade Rolls for Thanksgiving: Make it Do

My Favorite Cranberry Sauce: Make It Do

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

DIY Thanksgiving and Fall Decoration Tutorials

Katar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:35:11 +0000

Most people skip right over Thanksgiving crafts and head straight for Christmas ones. WHY!? Thanksgiving is JUST as hardcore, COME ON! psh. I mean, at LEAST make some paper turkeys traced from your hands… Well. Here are some sweet Thanksgiving craft tutorials. Long Live Thanksgiving Crafts!

Oh! But some of these could also work for Halloween crafts too.

As usual, just click on the photo to get the tutorial.

Banner Tutorials
Centerpiece Tutorials
Favor Tutorials
Table Runner Tutorials
Felt Thanksgiving Food Tutorials
Setting a Thanksgiving Table
Napkin Tutorials
Menu Embellishments
Place Card Tutorials
Place Mat Tutorials
Silver Storage Bag Tutorials
Wine Holder Tutorials
Home Decor Tutorials
Free Thanksgiving Clip Art
Inspiration, Ideas, and Photos

Banner Tutorials:

Give Thanks Banner: Organize Your Stuff Now

Centerpiece Tutorials:

Indian Corn Centerpiece: Eddie Ross

Make a Glittered Cornucopia: Cathie Filian

Paper Turkeys: Martha Stewart

Edible Arrangement Thanksgiving Centerpiece: Roots and Wings Co.

Bringing Fall Indoors: The Mother Huddle

Turkey Centerpiece: WomansDay

Make a Decorative Table Centerpiece out of Paper: eHow

Floral Arrangement in Pumpkins: FamilyE

Scallop Pumpkin Centerpiece: Sunny Day Memories

Thanksgiving LED Turkey Centerpiece Project: SparkleLabs

Grateful Bouquet: Wendysmedley

Thankful Jar: Little Birdie Secrets

Thankful Jar: Poppies at Play

Tacky But Cute Thanksgiving Centerpiece and Party Favors: I Love To Createpil

Favor Tutorials:

Clip-Art Paper Squirrel Favors: Martha Stewart

Finger Puppet Favors: Martha Stewart

Table Runner Tutorials:

Fall for Mod Table Runner: Plaid Online

Festive Foliage: Martha Stewart

Felt Thanksgiving Food Tutorials:

Felt Food Harvest Dinner: So You Think You're Crafty

Thanksgiving Dinner Kidlet Style: Smashed Peas and Carrots

Felt Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream Tutorial: Smashed Peas and Carrots

Setting a Thanksgiving Table:

Simple Place Setting: Cathie Filian

A Whimsical Thanksgiving Table: Martha Stewart

A Modern Thanksgiving Table: Martha Stewart

A Timeless Thanksgiving Table: Martha Stewart

A Harvest Thanksgiving Table: Martha Stewart

Silhouette Tablecloth: Martha Stewart

Tabletop Collage: Martha Stewart

Leaf Motifs for the Table: Martha Stewart

Napkin Tutorials:

Three Easy Napkin Folds: Martha Stewart

Turkey Napkin Fold and Gold Leaf Turkeys: Martha Stewart

Apple Stamped Napkins: Plaid

Acorn Napkin Ring Embellishments: Mad in Crafts

Walnut Charms: Design Sponge

Make Turkey Embellished or More Formal Clay Napkin Rings for the Fall Season: The Artful Crafter

Headdress Napkin Wrap: Martha Stewart

Monogrammed Napkin Ring in Burlap: MayaMade

Burlap Thanksgiving Themed Napkin Rings: The Graphics Fairy

Harvest Napkin Ties: Martha Stewart

Wishbone Napkin Ring: Martha Stewart

Menu Embellishments:

Menu Table Embellishment: Brenda Pinnick

Thanksgiving Menus Free Download: Brooklyn Limestone

Place Card Tutorials:

How to Make a Turkey Place Card Holder of felt and feathers: The Artful Crafter

Pom-Pom Tom Decoration: Martha Stewart

Thanksgiving Clip Art Place Cards: Martha Stewart

Thanksgiving Chocolate Bar Place Card: Martha Stewart

Glimmer and Shine Pumpkin Place Cards: Martha Stewart

Boat Place Card: Martha Stewart

Thanksgiving Place Cards: Martha Stewart

Pear Place Card: Martha Stewart

Quick Place Cards: Martha Stewart

Pinecone Turkey: Martha Stewart

Speckled Place Cards: Martha Stewart

Turkey Place Cards: Martha Stewart

Turkey Trivia Place Card: Martha Stewart

Grateful Spread - Rustic Place Card: Martha Stewart

Indian Corn Place Cards: Holiday Crafts and Creations

Fall Harvest Place Card Holders: Margot Potter The Impatient Crafter

How to Make Holiday Pop-up Place Cards: The Artful Crafter

Acorn Place Cards: Cant Stop Making Things

Place Mat Tutorials:

Handmade Placemats: ReproDepot

Apple Placemats: Bkids

Thanksgiving Day Table Decor: PBS

Silver Storage Bag Tutorials:

Make Your Own Silver Storage Bags: Cathie Filian

Wine Holder Tutorials:

Thanksgiving Wine Tote: ReproDepot

Home Decor Tutorials:

Thanksgiving Styrofoam Turkey Craft: AllKidsNetwork

Pumpkin Tealight Candle Holder: CandleandSoap.About

Valdani Pumpkin Cross Stitch Pattern: CrossStitch.About

Thanksgiving Memories Keepsakes: The Object Project

Thankful Blocks: The Creative Crate

Mod Podge Season Signs: Craft Rookie

Seasonal Word Blocks: CreativeKDesigns

Autumn Sign: Moody Girl Projects

Make Wheat Harvest House Blessings: Gingerbread Snowflakes

Festive Feather Wreath: J-A-Girl

Acorn Holiday Wreath: Place to Bloom

Fall Wreath: Mad in Crafts

Acorn Wreath Tutorial: Someday Crafts

Fabric Wreath: So You Think Youre Crafty

Fall Picture Frame: Someday Crafts

Snazzy Frame Idea: J-A-Girl

How to Decoupage a Frame: Brixton Life

Give Thanks Burlap Pillow: La t dah

Burlap Acorn Tutorial: Rebekahlrobinson

Thankful Tree: Roots and Wings Co.

Thankful Turkey Keepsake: Roots and Wings Co.

Heartfelt Thanksgiving Letters: Roots and Wings Co.

Leaf Nut Bowl: Pattie Wack

Thankful Pumpkin: The Swell Life

Salt Dough Leaf Prints: That Artist Woman

Scarecrow: MooreMinutes

Free Thanksgiving Clip Art:

Thanksgiving Cheer Postcard: Cheeky Magpie

Inspiration, Ideas, and Photos:

Turkey Sweet Treat Favor: Beein Creative with Julie

Aww.. the turkey clay napkin rings are cute

I will be adding more Thanksgiving craft tutorials to this post throughout November. If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

DIY Halloween Costume Tutorials

Katar — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:00:53 +0000

Tutorials:

Looking to make a costume for your pet? Check out my collection of links!
Having a Halloween Costume Contest? Check out my tutorial for award ribbons!
Search for Halloween Costumes on my blog to find out if I have mentioned DIY costumes in other posts. They will be listed under Halloween Tutorials in the posts that appear.
Have a DEEP love for Pac-Man? I have a ton of Pac-Man costume tutorials in another blog post!

Contents:

Full Costume Tutorials
Baby/Toddler/Kid Full Costume Tutorials
Costume Accessory Tutorials

Full Costume Tutorials:

Mr. T Costume Tutorial: fefillo on Flickr

Create a Real Working iPod Costume: Instructables

Princess Peacock Costume: CraftZine

Punk Mummy and Glam Witch Costume: Cathie Filian

Make a Headless Corpse Bride from Duct Tape: Instructables

Care Bear Costume Tutorial: Craftster

Giant Sandwich Costume: Instructables

Ghostbuster Tutorial: Instructables

Building an Evil Ash Costume: StudioCreations

Cardboard Robot Halloween Costume of Doom: TeamDroid

Flaming Carrot: I-Mockery

Deviled Egg Halloween Costume: The Swell Life's Blog

Oscar the Grouch Costume: Instructables

How to Build a Bat Costume: EvilMadScientis

Mummy Costume: 365 Halloween

Qbert Costume: g42.org/XWiki

Tron Costume: mozzwald on Flickr

Tusken Raider Costume: StudioCreations

A Halloween Costume Masterpiece: The Swell Life's Blog

Stalkaround Costume: SpookyLake

Storm Trooper Costume: StudioCreations

Sock Monkey: HGTV

Headless Horseman Costume: Yahoo Geocities

Headless Marie Antoinette Costume: MakeZine

Spiderweb Mother and Sock Spider Baby Costume: Martha Stewart

Baby/Toddler/Kid Full Costume Tutorials:

How to Make 5 Different Halloween Costumes: mLive – These costumes include a lady bug, a bat, a butterfly, a flower, and a mummy.
How to Make 5 Last Minute Halloween Costumes for Kids: CraftZine – These costumes include a pirate, a bee, a monkey, a Lego, and Sushi!
Quick Snapsuit Baby Costumes: PBS Kids – Strong Man, Munchkin, Wee Witch, and Baby Sasquatch Costumes
Halloween Doodle Embroidery for Onesies or T-shirts: CraftZine
Costume Archives: FamileE – Lamb, Bat, Mailbox, Bird Mask, Bunny, Robot, Skeleton with printables, Knight, Hats, and Skunk. These costumes are so easy and you can print most of the costume out from the site!

Crazy Octopus Costme: Designing Moms

Happy Mutant 3-Armed Baby Costume: Instructables

What a Hoot Owl Halloween Costume: Parenting

Corn on the Cob Costume: Parenting

Fire-Breathing Dragon: Family Fun

Goldfish Costume: Parenting

Pony Costume: Parenting

Bubble Bather: Family Fun

Yoshi Mascot and Baby Mario Costumes for Toddlers: Instructables

Boo-Berry Costume or Any Other Round Fruit You Fancy: Tenth Muse Studios

$5 No-Sew Candy Halloween Costume

Buddy the T-Rex: PBS

Pirate and Fairy Costume: Cathie Filian

His and Her Royal Highness Halloween Costumes: Martha Stewart

Chicken Costume: Martha Stewart

Coffee Filter Fairy Godmother No-Sew Halloween Costume: Martha Stewart

Butterfly Costume: Martha Stewart

Peter Pan Costume Tutorial: Make It and Love It

Tinker Bell Costume Tutorial: Make It and Love It

How to Make a Ladybug Costume: Make-Baby-Stuff

Cookie Costume Tutorial: Make-Baby-Stuff

Button Costume: Gets Bored Easily Blog

Kid's Owl Halloween Costume: Alpha Mom

Easy Kid's Pirate Costume: Belle Epoque's Blog

How to Make a Kid's Halloween Musketeer Costume: Instructables

Tricky Gnome on Toadstool Costume: FamilyFun

Little Bearded Gnome: FamilyFun

Wee Gnome Halloween Costume: Instructables

Cupcake Halloween Costume Tutorial: WonderTime

Make Nutty Squirrel Costume: Designing Moms

Thomas the Tank Engine Halloween Costume: Mommy Gossip's Blog

Crocodile Costume Tutorial: Evil Mad Scientist

Godzilla Halloween Costume: Creatrope

Homemade Barbarian Armor: ursuscelticus on Flickr

Costume Accessory Tutorials:

How to Make a Knitted Pirates Hat for Kids: Moth Haven

: Craft Foam Armor Tutorial: entropyhouse

Arrow Tutorial: entropyhouse

Men In Black Guns: Instructables

How to Make a Cardboard Costume Helmet: Instructables

Cardboard Spurs for Cowboy Boots: Abmatic on Flickr

Rocking TuTu: Cut Out and Keep

How to Create Ice Cream Cone Tights: Naughty Secretary Club

Duct Tape Wheres Waldo? Shirt: Winona on Flickr

Harry Potter Skirt Tutorial: StartfirePhoenix

Easy Mermaid Tail Costume Tutorial: CraftZine

How to Make a Lego Minifig (man) Costume for Halloween: Xenomachina

: Bunny Hat and Paw Mittens: Purlbee

Make a Flying Spaghetti Monster Headpiece: EvilMadScientist

Duffman Costume Belt: Arr the Kraken

Halloween Fantasy Mask Tutorial: CraftZine

Easy Halloween Mask: Phyllis Dobbs

Calaca Sugar Masks: AZCentral

How to Make a Mask out of Tin Foil and Tape: WikiHow

Gilded Lace Crowns: Bitter Betty Blogs

Dress-up Crown: The Long Thread

Tatiana's Crown: Cheeky Magpie

Gothic Skull Princess Crown: The Crafty Chica

Shrimp Sushi Hat: Hiding in Asia's Blog

Inspiration, Ideas, and Photos:

Low Resolution Costume: kindacarsick

Photo Credit: San Diego Shooter on flickr