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Pothos or devil's ivy (Epipremnum aureum) is a vining tropical plant with heart-shaped leaves that is native to the Solomon Islands. Most cultivated plants are variegated with either yellow streaks or cream mottles. Pothos is extremely tolerant of neglect, and it thrives indoors if given the correct care. Wilting leaves suggests a need for immediate attention. They may indicate that the plant is receiving too little or too much water or has been infested by pests.
As homeowners seek to emulate professional-grade kitchens, they are upgrading their appliances to achieve the same commercial look and culinary experience as their favorite restaurants. However, induction cooktops, which have long been used in commercial kitchens, have not been totally embraced by the masses. While their sleek and sophisticated design tops many wish lists, the public has been slow to purchase these appliances due to limited product knowledge and safety concerns.
Homemade non-stick spray for cooking has plenty of pros. The spray you make at home will rely on a mister or spray bottle, which is better for the environment than an aerosol can. It's also cheaper to make your own non-stick cooking spray using regular vegetable oil. Homemade non-stick spray has a few cons, too. Some misters clog and require frequent cleaning. This may be inconvenient if you notice it during food preparation time.
Finding a brass four-pot circle plant stand may seem like an impossible task. With a little creativity and perseverance, though, you can find that plant stand. Take advantage of people you know around your town first, then branch out to the Internet and other local avenues.
A Dutch oven lets you bake bread, make soups or stews, braise meats and even cook desserts. Porcelain-lined ovens typically have a porcelain coating on top of cast iron or aluminum, with an enamel coating on top of the porcelain. The porcelain enamel keeps the pot from rusting, but still lets you cook outside with the pot. If you are worried about foods sticking to the pot, then use non-stick cooking spray.
Pot scrubbers are one of those necessities that are often overlooked when purchasing groceries or setting up house. There are many ways to make your own handmade pot scrubbers from nylon materials that you may already have around the house or that can be purchased at fabric stores. Nylon pot scrubbers can be made with minimal sewing skills or improvised by tying instead of sewing.
HDTV swivel stands are stands that allow flat-screen televisions to swivel 360 degrees. They offer viewing convenience for someone sitting at any angle to the television. Stands like this can be quickly put together using a few pieces of high-quality pine and plywood. A lazy Susan bearing will be used to allow the swivel motion. A project like this is not complicated and anyone with a little carpentry experience can put a stand like this together without frustration.
A swivel-position stand acts as a platform for a monitor, television or other object, yet can be rotated easily. The piece of hardware that allows for this movement is a Lazy Susan bearing. Building a simple swivel monitor stand is not a complicated project.
Ranch houses represent a residential architectural style that became common following World War II through the 1970s. These homes are prevalent in suburban America and are typically single story structures with low roof lines and minimal exterior detailing. If you feel that your ranch home is boring, there are a few ways to make it stand out from the rest.
Bonsai pots are part of the tree's overall presentation and therefore should be given as much consideration as the plant itself. Handmade pots are often a good choice as they are a piece of art as unique as the miniature tree it holds. It is important when shopping for a handmade pot to check for authenticity by locating the maker's signature on the bottom. There are many sizes, shapes and colors of bonsai pots, and they may be glazed, unglazed or antique.
Nameplate stands are often used in offices, reception areas and other business environments. They are usually a decorative piece of plastic, metal or wood that hold a well-designed nameplate to show clients the name of the person they are speaking with. Building a nameplate stand is a relatively easy task. Making a stand can be done quickly with little carpentry experience and a few basic carpentry tools. The building cost for a decorative nameplate stand is low and building several is almost as easy as building one.
A hand mixer is a tool used to combine foods for cooking and baking, and to whip eggs or cream. There are manually-operated and electric-powered mixers available. Mixers blends foods better than conventional spoons, and beat eggs and cream more efficiently than simple hand tools.
If you've got some empty flower pots that you can't make use of for planting, make use of them in crafts for yourself or to give as gifts. There are many creative ideas for turning extra or slightly imperfect pots into something that expresses your love of gardening and nature. Flower pots turned into wind chimes, bird baths and garden ornaments are just some of the many possibilities.
Peat pots are containers for starting seeds indoors. When seedlings are started in peat pots, you plant the pot as well as the plant at transplant time. This reduces transplant shock because the roots aren't disturbed. With reduced transplant recovery time, plants get off to a faster start in the garden. It also cuts down on the time and mess that come with removing a seedling from a plastic pot. There are some environmental concerns about using peat-based products in the garden.
The sea provides artistic settings for painters and crafters to recreate. Far away places, undersea creatures and the adventures of sailing ships inspire artists toward seaworthy pieces. Among the most beloved icons of the sea is the faithful lighthouse. The lighthouse represents safety in rough weather. As a sea-inspired gift or token of safety, lighthouse crafts spruce up the lawn or decorate a fireplace as knickknack.
Whether you enjoy taking time to prepare a meal or are rushing to finish cooking before your family comes home, food mixers can take the effort out of some of your food preparation tasks. Food mixers fold, beat, whip and mix ingredients, usually liquids or a mixture of dry and wet ingredients. A variety of mixers are available in different designs, with sizes suitable for every kitchen.
Gardeners with limited space find container gardening a viable solution. Container gardens allow gardeners to grow everything from annuals and perennials, to herbs and vegetables. Gardeners are sometimes confused, though, about what types of potting mixes to use. Garden soil alone is too heavy for container gardens, while a commercial potting mix may be too light to support substantial root systems, such as those of vegetables. Make your own inexpensive mix with compost, garden soil and other amendments. You'll save money and your plants will thrive.
Hand mixers are small kitchen appliances or utensils that can be electric or person-powered. Essential for beating foods such as batters and other semiliquid foods, electric mixers are time savers in the kitchen. Many cooks have preferences for certain brands and styles of electric mixers, while some cooks prefer to rely on the old-fashioned hand mixer: the whisk.
One of the most prudent small appliance investments you can make for your home is a stand mixer. If you don't bake cakes or whip cream, you might think you don't need a mixer in your kitchen. Don't underestimate stand mixers, though, as they are actually much more versatile and are available with an assortment of attachments to perform the job of many kitchen tools in one.
Whether you have a traditional black cast-iron Dutch oven or an enamel-coated one, confirming the temperature inside the oven is extremely important to prevent food-borne illness caused by improperly cooked foods. Confirming the interior oven temperature requires you use some type of thermometer--whether a Dutch oven or grill thermometer or a meat or food thermometer. The type of thermometer used depends on your preference and in some situations the heating method. You can cook outdoors with coals or briquettes below and on top of the Dutch oven or indoors with an electric or gas oven.
A Dutch oven is a heavy pot made of ceramic, steel or cast iron with a tight-fitting lid. It is oven-safe and is used primarily for braising and stewing tough cuts of meat in the oven or on the stove top after browning. If you don't have a Dutch oven, other cooking containers make suitable replacements.
Jet produces commercial and consumer wood- and metal-working tools, including the JWL-1442VS Pro wood lathe. A lathe rotates the work piece around an axis, allowing you to shape or cut the work piece using stationary tools like gouges and chisels. These tools sit in a in long grooved section with a clamp known as a tool rest, and the tool rest sits next to the rotating axis and the work piece. The lathe is available either with or without a stand.
If you have ever wanted to extend your vegetable growing season or start it earlier, consider cultivating plants in hot boxes. A hot box functions as a kind of greenhouse, harnessing the energy of the sun to keep plants warm. Hot box gardeners commonly have hot boxes made out of large, outdoor, wooden planter boxes topped with an old window. Those with limited or no planting space, however, can create smaller versions out of nothing but flower pots.
A tall ladder is a useful tool for climbing up the side of a wall to reach a roof. Secure the top of the ladder to the roof so that there is no chance of the ladder lurching sideways or falling away from the floor. A few hardware supplies and some common household tools will be needed.
Swivel tables allow a TV, decorations or even artwork to be turned so it can be viewed from several different angles in the same room. Quality-built swivel tables are not always the easiest to find in stores or in the size you desire. The plans for this swivel table are for a 3-foot-high TV swivel table, but the dimensions can be adjusted to meet your individual needs.
If you're a gardener without the budget for planters, don't give up. Instead, check out your bowl collection. Choose bowls you love but never use or bowls that are worn and faded. These bowls can become the containers for a new container garden.
A Dutch oven is a cooking pot made of metal, generally cast iron, that has a firmly attached lid used to better insulate the food while cooking. Dutch ovens are usable on glass-top stoves, provided they have the right construction.
Mixers are kitchen appliances designed to combine ingredients. While ingredients may be mixed with any basic tool including a regular kitchen spoon, it was the invention of the motorized mixer that differentiates mixers from spoons. The stand mixer was developed to handle a larger quantity of ingredients in 1908 by Herbert Johnson; he later introduced the still-popular KitchenAid mixer in 1919.
Good quality potting compost is crucial to growing healthy houseplants and successfully starting seedlings indoors. Good potting compost should be nutritiously rich, sterile, and have good drainage. Making potting compost at home is more work than buying it in bags from the garden store, but the savings add up fast if you have lots of garden projects. A side benefit is that you get to turn all your yard waste, vegetable scraps and lawn clippings into soil --- a sustainable practice that is good for the planet and the budget.
Reaping the tasty rewards of a summer vegetable garden is a joy for anyone who grows their own produce. Gardeners from novice to expert can start their vegetable plants from seeds. Getting the seeds to germinate requires proper planting conditions, including an appropriate container. For easy transplanting later, you can use toilet paper rolls for starting seeds.
Create your own bowl-shaped planters using hypertufa--a mixture of cement and organic materials that has a natural stone look once finished. The ingredients are inexpensive and readily available from most home-improvement stores. To make a bowl, you need a mold for the hypertufa; any large plastic bowl works well. While you can use a metal bowl, plastic is preferable as it's more malleable, and therefore simpler to remove from the finished hypertufa planter after the cement dries.
When you need to get precise measurements for slots, holes or small recessed spaces during a remodel or construction job, reach for a depth gauge. Depth gauges are available in electronic or manual models. Manual models have a slider and provide measurements up to .2 millimeter accuracy. Depth gauges of this sort use the slider much the same as old fashioned slide rules to gauge the accurate depth of the small space.
Potted plants are ideal gifts for garden enthusiasts who like nurturing plants to their full potential as well and who just enjoy their beauty. It is not necessary to purchase the gift from a florist. They could be cuttings from a garden or a purchase from a home and garden store. However, the presentation enhances the gift. Using a few basic supplies, give a simple potted plant a professional appearance.
Create a focal point for your garden with a colorful stacked pot planter. Choose containers that coordinate with the colors of your house, deck or existing flowers. Let your pots create a color splash by planting them with interesting foliage alone, like Sedum burrito or ipomoea. Make flowers the focus by using contrasting colors like blue pottery with white or yellow flowers. Soften the look with complementary colors like violet flowers and dark blue pottery.
A tiered terracotta pot stand can add visual interest to any space. These pot stands can be made in a variety of sizes, and can be used indoors or outside. They also do not have to hold plants; they can be used to display a variety of other items instead. The instructions that follow are for a larger pot stand for outdoor use. However, the premise is the same for any size stand. This is a good weekend project, as it can be finished in two days.
Mixers are useful kitchen tools used for cooking and baking. The biggest difference between a hand mixer and a stand mixer is the amount of volume the two kitchen appliances can handle.
A Dutch oven is a large, heavy kettle or pot used for slow cooking, especially outdoors over a fire. The cookware is usually made from cast iron, and has a tight-fitting lid that keeps heat in. Dutch ovens are specialty cookware, and tend to take up a lot of space. However, you don't have to own one to cook recipes meant for a Dutch oven.
Dutch ovens are large pots with lids that can be transferred from the stove top to the oven. They are used to make braised dishes, stews or anything else that needs to be seared on the stove top and finished off slowly in the oven.
If you want a different way to arrange your flower pots, you can use tipsy pots and paint them to give them a personal touch. Tipsy pots are arranged by threading the drainage hole on the edge of the bottom of each pot with a piece of rebar that is anchored into the ground. The effect is a stack of flower pots that seem to magically balance on top of each other. Painting the outside of each pot creates a customized piece of functional garden art.
Potted plants make great gifts. They brighten up a room by giving it life and fresh air. Instead of spending the money to have a florist put together a potted plant, you can pot the plant yourself for less. By adding a few special touches to your potted plant, you can make it look like it was put together by a professional. Taking care of your own plants from the very beginning, you can also ensure their good health.
Building your own firewood stand can seem like a big task but firewood stand brackets take the guesswork out of the process and even allow for custom measurements based on your supply needs. Brackets can be found online at a store such as Baileys Online, or they may be available at a local hardware store. This stand is designed to hold half a cord of wood, assuming the wood measures about 18 to 24 inches in length. Building two would hold one cord of wood at 4-by-4-by-8 feet.
Tree density gives foresters an idea of how closely trees are growing in a given area. This value is always expressed as trees per hectare. The tree density is not an exact number of all of the trees in the region, but it serves as an estimate. This calculation method is called point-quarter and it divides the area into quadrants for taking a sampling of trees.
A lathe is a tool used to turn wood. The tool holds a block of wood between a driven wheel and a free-spinning wheel which allows the wood to rotate at high speeds. The use of different hand tools, such as chisels or scrapers, allows the user to give a square block of wood a rounded design. Most lathes come with a tool stand attached to the lathe where the different hand tools rest. The stand allows for a consistent angle and pressure. Building a free-standing stand gives you a little more freedom of movement.
Swamp coolers are a popular alternative to more expensive and complex air conditioners, which use a refrigerant to cool the air. Swamp coolers use a process known as "evaporative cooling" to reduce the temperature of a space. Simply put, the swamp cooler pulls hot air through a moistened pad. The evaporation of the water in the pads reduces the temperature of the air, and the cool, moist air that results is blown into the room. A simple stand can be made to support a swamp cooler from standard window frames, using only materials available at most hardware stores.
Dutch ovens are large, lidded pots made of heavy cast iron that cook food with a slower, more even heat than other metals. Dutch ovens are the preferred choice for camp cooking, as their other name -- camp oven -- implies. The shape of a Dutch oven makes it a versatile cooking vessel. Camp ovens with feet can stand directly in a cook fire and its embers and ashes. A lip along the edge of the lid can hold hot coals for cooking food with heat from the top and bottom. Some recipes call specifically for a Dutch oven, but…
Free-standing baby gates combine the protection of a child gate with the convenience and portability of a playpen. Free-standing gates connect across a room and secure at each end, or the gates form into various shapes to create an enclosed play area. Best of all, the gate collapses and is easily stored when no longer needed. Retail free-standing gates are available, but expensive. If you want to keep your costs low, build your own free-standing baby gate; it requires very little actual building experience.
Scarecrows can add a touch of fall to any room, but they're especially useful if you have a garden. While there are many ways to build a scarecrow and traditionally they are made with stuffing straw and wooden rods, there is nothing in the rules that says you can't make them out of something else, like pots. With a little imagination you'll begin to see countless ways to make your new scarecrows.
A stack of flower pots creates a focal point in your garden. This vertical structure can be filled with exotic tropical flowers, cascading creeping vines, strawberries, herbs or a variety of different plants. When choosing plants, look for their light and water needs and pair them up accordingly. Use clay or plastic pots in all the same size, or start with a large pot, stacking increasingly smaller pots as you go up. Whatever way you decide to make your stacking flower pot stand, the end result looks impossibly tilted.
It doesn't take much to turn a simple yard into a landscaped oasis, especially when you have the know-how to turn everyday items like shipping pallets into attractive, versatile pot stands. With the ability to customize the stands to match your existing decor and the option of switching out the pots whenever you feel like, these easy-to-make pot stands will help keep your yard looking fresh and stylish all year long with little cost and hassle.
Potting benches are work spaces set up to pot flowers or small seedlings for the garden. These benches usually have a box to contain soil, keeping it off the floor, and storage for small gardening supplies. Make a potting bench easily by using a vintage sewing machine table. The built-in hole, used for holding the sewing machine, is ideal for access to a soil box. The hinged flip-top table extension adds extra work space and covers the potting mess when not in use.
Designer night stands can cost a fortune, even when they are small. These bedside tables are very convenient, however, for placing a book, a glass of water, or your spectacles. If you want a piece of bedroom furniture that will impress without spending a fortune, consider constructing a nightstand yourself from just a few easy-to-find pieces. Even if you can afford to spend the money on a pre-made piece, building your own custom furniture will allow you to express who you are.
Contrary to its name, maple cream, also known as maple butter, contains no cream or butter. The only ingredient is pure, Grade A maple syrup that has been cooked and whipped to a light, fluffy spread for enhancing toast, pancakes and desserts. Use a stand mixer to make homemade maple cream to save your arms several minutes of beating the hot syrup by hand or holding up a hand mixer. Prepare a large batch of low-fat maple spread in advance and keep it in the refrigerator to always be ready.
While the windowsill is a natural place for plants, it can easily become overcrowded. Depending on your home, a windowsill can also be a very unnatural and unstable place for plants, and, if you have children or pets in your home, finding a more secure location for your green, potted friends becomes imperative. Corner shelves often provide the best of both worlds: they make use of overlooked space and provide a stable location for plants.
"Guitar Hero" is a video game that mimics the playing of a real guitar by allowing players to use a special video game controller designed like a real guitar to play along to different songs. These guitar controllers are easily knocked over if they are stood up and do not come with any sort of support or case. It is possible, however, to create a stand for these guitar controllers by connecting pieces of PVC pipe together.
Though small enough to be held and operated with one hand, soldering irons pack a powerful punch when it comes to heat. For this reason, a wire stand is an essential part of using a soldering iron, as it prevents the hot top of the iron coming in contact with your work surface and creating a burn hazard. If your soldering iron didn't come with a stand, or if you've lost or just don't like the one it came with, create your own secure, cone-shaped wire stand using household materials and common craft supplies.
Designing a stand for a 61-inch television takes careful planning. Measure the area for the proposed stand and then decide on the type of lumber you want. On average, add 30 percent to the width and depth of the set for the size of your stand. This allows for the addition of components. When planning the design, remember that the components housed have wires and cables running to each other and incoming sources.
Wood is a versatile product. With the right tools, you can cut it, shape it or mold it to make almost anything you want. When you want to make a wood stand, it can be as simple as a square piece of wood atop four legs that are nothing more than 2-by-4-inch studs cut to length. Build a box from wood, set a plant on it and it becomes a wooden plant stand. The possibilities are endless, limited only by your drive and imagination.
After grocery shopping, save and recycle your heavy nylon-mesh orange and onion bags by using them to scrub your pots and pans. The tough nylon and rough texture of the mesh vegetable bags is perfect for scraping off baked-on food from your cookware. These bags are made of plastic, so they will not damage non-stick coatings or plastic.
Whether advertising a yard sale, lemonade stand, birthday party, outdoor wedding reception or any other function, you might need a sign stand–sturdy enough to last for at least a few days. With the right tools you can make a sign stand in just a few minutes.
Old TV stands are often too narrow for flat-screen TVs, so make a wood TV stand to custom-fit your modern TV. With a woodworking technique that uses dowels in place of screws, you can make a chic TV table that costs a fraction of store-bought furniture.
Spring and summer are the seasons when your garden is in full bloom. You may want to decorate the yard and garden with beautiful flower and plant arrangements, so you will need planting pots. Rather than buying several planting pots and spending more money than necessary, you can purchase a few materials to make the pots yourself. If you make the pots out of concrete, they will be durable and could last through many growing seasons.
Hammocks are the epitome of taking it easy. You can relax in style anytime you want by setting up a hammock in your backyard. You don't need two well-placed trees to make a hammock dream into reality. Building your own hammock stand means you can place it wherever you want and can even fold it up when the hammock won't be used. No special tools are required to make a hammock stand at home and previous construction experience is not necessary.
A gazing ball is a sphere made of mirror-like or highly reflective material such a polished metal or glass. First made by Venetian artisans in the 13th century, the gazing ball has both practical and decorative uses. Gazing balls reflect the landscape or decor around them and add a splash of color and shine. Strategically placed gazing balls allowed Victorian-era servants to monitor guests without seeming to stare at them: They watched the reflection in the ball to see if anyone needed service or assistance. The globes require a stand to prevent them rolling away, and you can make one…
When you're working on a computer, or reading a piece of paper off of a desk, you can actually cause yourself some harm. Back and neck strain are dangers, especially when trying to copy from a book or paper onto a computer screen. However, it's really easy to either make or purchase a page stand or book holder for yourself. The downside to trying to buy one, is that paper holders are fairly difficult to find.
Creating large pots for outdoor plants allows you more creative freedom than purchasing premade pots. Making your own pots is also cheaper, as the larger the pot, the more expensive it often is. Hypertufa is a mixture made from concrete and organic matter. Pots made from hypertufa are strong, attractive and inexpensive. They are also easy to make in whatever size or shape you need for your landscaping. Create your own hypertufa pots over the winter when possible so they are cured and ready to use by spring.
If you have an old door lying around, reclaim it and use it to make a custom potting bench. Any wood door will work, from a hollow core closet door to a solid wood entry door. You might be able to use a metal or fiberglass door, but these will be harder to work with. Use a door with a glass insert only if you plan to remove the glass and patch that spot or use the opening in your design.
Planting hardwood cuttings is a great way to begin saplings. Hardwood goumie cuttings are the branches that you can clip from the tree in the spring when the leaves are about the burst open. These branches have small buds where the leaves will be produced. You will need cuttings that are approximately 12 to 48 inches long.
Armillary spheres were first used in ancient Greece, China and the Middle East as models for teaching astronomy. Larger armillary spheres were also sometimes used for observing the skies. The armillary sphere consists of bands of metal that form rings to create an open sphere. Sometimes a small globe, which represents Earth, is at the center. Three main rings, perpendicular to one another, represent the equator, the solstices, and the equinoxes. Other rings represent the Arctic Circle, the Antarctic Circle, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and the ecliptic. Finally, an axis rod passes through the sphere and usually has…
A Vernier gauge is a useful measurement device equipped with two scales, one fixed and one that slides. It can measure extremely precise distances, in some cases to .02 mm. Anyone doing construction or remodeling work and in need of accurate measurements of the depth of a slot, hole or recess will find a Vernier depth gauge extremely handy.
If you have your eye on that large market umbrella, you may not realize the price often does not include the stand. The stands can be pricey, and occasionally hard to find. Inexpensive does not have to mean "cheap," and making an umbrella stand might be easier than you think. With a little patience and a trip to a home improvement store, you can have a functional umbrella stand that is attractive, and possibly sturdier, than that one you saw in the store.
A firewood stand makes a great place to organize and store cut firewood that is destined for your fireplace or campfire. Locate your firewood stand in a convenient location either outside or inside your home or garage. You can build your firewood stand out of wood or metal, and you can create a firewood stand to accommodate a few logs or hundreds.
Most household folding ladders are relatively stable if the frame is locked into place and the legs are situated on stable, level surfaces. Extension ladders, on the other hand, are inherently unstable and require extra steps to make certain they're secure. Even after you've secured the ladder, having someone else on hand to monitor it, hand you tools and otherwise ensure your safety is always a good idea.
If you're trying to stock your kitchen or if you're thinking about upgrading your baking equipment, you may be wondering whether you'd be better off with a hand mixer or a stand mixer. Both types have their benefits and drawbacks. It's important to know what they are, and to evaluate your own baking habits, so you'll make the best choice for your kitchen.
Having problems seeing the television from another part of the room? If you're tired of fighting for the best seat in the room, installing a television swivel stand under your television is an inexpensive way that will allow you to rotate it for viewing at all angles. Television swivel stands can be made to fit all types of sets from the largest to the smallest. Now all you have to fight over is the remote.
The maidenhair fern is a shade-dwelling plant scientifically referred to as Adiantaceae. The formal name is Greek and means "not wetting," meaning that the fronds seem to shed water without ever becoming wet. The tiny, lacy leaves of this deciduous plant have been used for medicinal purposes, treating everything from colds to liver problems. Beautiful in appearance and easy to maintain, the maidenhair fern is a fine addition to a shade garden.
When you get a new TV, especially a larger one, you need a place to put it that will suit your home. This becomes a larger issue when you see the size of the entertainment centers and TV stands that are available in stores. They are often too big or too small for your purposes. Of course, you can always mount your TV to the wall, but then you have to buy a kit or hire someone to do it for you. The corner of a room is normally a great place for a large TV. Placing the TV in…
Many gardeners like to start seeds in seed trays, especially if the soil outside is still too cold for direct planting. The trouble with using just trays is that young plants can be traumatized when their patch of planting soil is removed from the trays and placed in the soil outside. Peat pots remove that risk of trauma; you can simply plant the entire pot into the outside soil, because the pots themselves will dissolve shortly after they are planted.
A bonsai pot is a relatively shallow dish when compared to typical plant pots. The art of bonsai is the skillful miniaturization of any variety of plant life. Developing and maintaining a bonsai requires balance. The appearance of a bonsai is supposed to be calming. Part of the art of this is in the form of the bonsai. The bonsai pot is important for this process. The roots of a bonsai tree should not be much longer than the branches of the tree. They should not have an abundance of room to grow in; hence, the shallow bonsai pots are…
Adding moss to terra cotta clay pots gives them an aged patina. In an afternoon's time you can add the look of years to your pots. Filled with real or artificial plants they will provide an appealing texture to your décor.
PVC hammock stands are sturdy yet inexpensive for what you get. They are completely weather resistant, and can be left outside, no matter what the weather, which saves a little hassle for you. Once you have made your PVC hammock stand, you will be able to simply roll up your hammock and bring it in when the weather is not friendly without having to worry about disassembling your hammock stand as well.
Candle wicks are generally made out of cotton that has been chemically treated to make it burn more slowly than if it were left untreated. Some wicks contain other materials at their cores to make the wicks either burn cooler or to make the wick more rigid.
Clay pots are easy to paint and decorate. They have been used to make many different craft projects, from animals to Christmas ornaments. You can easily make a clay pot lighthouse for use as a decorative item in your home. You can also make a lighthouse for your yard or garden. This is an inexpensive craft project that you could also make as a gift. You will be able to choose different clay pot and saucer sizes to make a smaller or larger lighthouse.
Nylon pot scrubbers are a necessity in any kitchen for scrubbing baked and cooked-on food from cookware and pots and pans. They're also effective for removing fuzz and pet hair from upholstered furniture and drapery. These scrubbers are available at many stores, but making your own pot scrubbers from nylon netting is a fast and easy project that might be fun to try.
Making a stand for your TV is a simple project that you can complete in an afternoon. Design your TV stand to fit the space in your room and add a shelf for additional storage. You can paint your TV stand to match your room's décor, or stain it compatible with your other furniture.
Making your own metal lathe stand is not complicated, and can easily be accomplished in a single weekend. Homemade lathe stands are often stronger and less expensive than their mass-produced counterparts. Also, by making your own lathe stand, you can customize it to your liking and include some more complicated features that other, prebuilt stands do not include. This article shows you how to build a simple but strong lathe stand out of 2-by-4 inch lumber.
Some flashlights are designed with flat sides or little kickstands that can be used to prop them up for hands-free illumination. Round-handled flashlights, on the other hand, can be extremely frustrating to use when you need both hands free. But if you anticipate the need, you can make a cheap, easy stand for your round-handled flashlight so that you can set it down without being left in the dark. Follow these simple steps to make your own stand at home.
A butcher's steel isn't used to sharpen a knife but rather to true, or hone, the blade immediately after the knife has been sharpened on a sharpening stone. When performed correctly, truing perfects and smooths out irregularities and keep the knife's edge in alignment. Steels come with coarse, medium or fine grains. Although traditionally made from hard steel, glass, ceramic and diamond-dust coated versions are also used. All steels are designed with a guard or hilt between the handle and steel to protect you from an accident. When using one, it should be held with your thumb and fingers safely…
Making your kitchen to suit the way you cook takes time and imagination. Some people like to hide everything away in cupboards, while others use their walls as a place to hang their pots and pans and other kitchen gadgets for decoration. Of course, you can purchase pot hangers, but you can also design your own to be extra durable or decorative. These directions are suitable for heavy pots like cast iron skillets.
Candles in the garden can create a magical feel. Making candles in terra cotta pots and arranging then around the garden can transform the space into an area for an early evening party. Terra cotta flowerpots gain a shot of glamor with a shimmering of gold around their rims. Not only does the candlelight add sparkle to outdoor entertaining, but a generous dash of citronella essential oil in the candle wax deters annoying insect invasion as dusk falls.
Maple or walnut are good wood choices for a book stand. Learn what materials you will need to build a simple book stand in this free wood project video from a woodworking teacher.
Band saw, power drill and power sanders for book stand project. Learn what tools you will need to build a simple book stand in this free wood project video from a woodworking teacher.
Make a shadow box out of a copper pot; learn this and more in this free arts and craft video taught by an expert shadow box maker.
Bouquets of flowers look beautiful when they are put in a vase. However, some flowers are not so compliant about standing upright in the vase and they droop over. Here is an easy way for your beautiful bouquet of flowers to stand upright.
KitchenAid stand mixers can be used for many kitchen tasks, from whipping egg yolks into perfect peaks, to kneading bread dough and making whipped cream. Here are several ideas using your KitchenAid stand mixer.
Make a set of beach-themed candle stands by recycling materials that you already have at your house. Completing this project may take a little time, as you will need to collect at least one empty wine bottle and enough seashells to cover it. Make this a beach night activity with your children the next time you visit the beach.
You may find a beautiful ceramic pot that would be just perfect for a patio planting except for one thing -- no drainage hole for extra water. Since few plants like to have wet feet, it’s worth remedying the situation. With a bit of effort, your beautiful pot can be filled with blooms.
