The process of dying leather is quite straight forward. You can use either water- or oil-based dyes. Water-based dye leaves the leather with a more natural feel, while oil-based dye can make leather feel somewhat stiff. By mixing colors and adjusting the strength of your dye, you can create a wide variety of effects.
Making homemade soap is a simple DIY that anyone can try. You can customize your soap recipe with additives, scents, and colors as well as with fun, sassy phrases right on the bar of soap! Washing your hands has never been this much fun!
Vinca leaves turning yellow may be the result of rot, fungal diseases, or a variety of plant pathogens. These can affect periwinkle (Vinca minor) as well as the better-known annual vinca (Vinca major).
You can dress any room up or down with beaded curtains for the doorways. You'll need some fishing line and everyday craft supplies to make this quick and easy project.
Play dough is a favorite with kids and parents alike because the squishy, sensory fun fosters creativity as well as fine motor skills. You can take the activity to the next level by making homemade modeling clay. Once the kids' creations dry they can be kept and treasured, instead of thrown away.
Made from a full circle of fabric and a waistband, circle skirts are fun and flattering and can be made to look modern or with vintage flair. Follow these steps to learn to easily draft and sew a perfectly tailored circle skirt.
Chatterboxes will hold children’s attention for hours, both in making them and playing with them. You might have known them as fortune-tellers or cootie catchers when you were young, but by whatever name you know them, everyone remembers peeking at the secrets hiding under the geometric folds.
What is an embroidered inchie, anyway? Simply a piece of fabric filled with 1 inch by 1 inch squares of embroidery. Inchies are great projects for everyone from beginners to advanced embroiderers because they can be as simple or complicated as you like.
It might appear as wisps of smoke lazily floating in the room. Or it might be more substantial with puffs of smoke emerging when you open or shut the door on the stove. Outside of it being a bit annoying, it's not a big problem and happens to the most wood stoves at some point. Stoves rely on draft to operate.
If your inboard-outboard boat is equipped with a Volvo stern drive, you quickly learn that Volvo has a habit of doing things logically. If you have basic mechanical knowledge and skills, you'll find that removing the Volvo Penta SX stern drive is a straightforward process. When you remove the stern drive, the process can take an hour or less the first time you do it. During reinstallation, things get a bit more complicated. You have to slather grease on some things, daub gasket sealant on others, and align and reconnect the shift shaft and drive shaft.