A staircase can be a major focal point on your big day. Either you will be walking down the staircase as you enter the room for the first time to meet your groom or afterward for the reception. For these reasons, dress up your staircase with tulle.
When building an outdoor storage shed, closing off an attic for storage or even building a tree house, you'll need a door. Rather than trying to find a prefabricated door that will fit to your particular project, you can build your own.
If you paint portraits or landscapes, you are familiar with muted earth colors, such as Burnt Sienna. Burnt Sienna adds a warm, tan color to your painting, and it is ideal for skin tones or painting objects like rocks, mountains and trees. If you run out of Burnt Sienna paint, you do not need to buy more at the store.
Ribbon, in its many colors, widths and textures, can be folded, twisted and sculpted into an wide variety number of shapes. When you add the ability to stiffen that ribbon to your repertoire the possibilities become almost endless.
There are two basic types of turnings when it comes to a wood lathe: spindle turning; and bowl turning. But no matter which one is your preference, learning to turn a cylinder, or spindle turning, is a beginner's technique that must be practiced.
Fresh flowers may be preferable in some situations, but when you want to save a few dollars or avoid the hassle of keeping the flowers fresh, silk flowers give you an everlasting alternative. You can use the same elastic wristlets that hold fresh flowers on a corsage for holding silk flowers.
Television shows such as "Mission Impossible" often feature lifelike masks worn by spies to duplicate other people. While these masks are the creation of Hollywood fantasy, you can create a realistic mask of a friend's face using some Hollywood techniques.
Plumeria are tropical flowers known for their distinctive pinwheel petal formation and their strong fragrance. Make a polymer clay plumeria flower by looking at real photograph references. Observe the oval shapes of their petals with a hint of added color. The petals look waxy and delicate at the same time.
There's no need to buy expensive crackle medium to create crackled paint effects. Make paint crackle by first brushing on a layer of Elmer's Glue-All.
Pants, especially jeans, have a tendency to stretch and get baggier as you wear them because the fibers in the pants are stretching and uncoiling. This is neither comfortable nor flattering.