Gift For Grandparents

A cute gift idea for Grandparents....

Gift Idea

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Christmas Word Art

Cute Christmas Word Art

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Floating Candle Centerpiece

Floating Candle Centerpiece

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DIY: How to remove the bottom of a bottle (Beer Bottle)

How to remove the bottom of a bottle (Part 2)…. without breaking the rest of the bottle. This one takes some practice to get right, but the end result is pretty cool. By just using your hand, and some water, you can make the bottom of a beer bottle blow out, in a perfect circle without breaking the rest of the bottle.

Take the empty beer bottle and fill it with water until the water is halfway up the neck of the bottle. Place your hand around the neck of the bottle, so that your hand is flush to the top. So your hand and the bottle are almost flat at the top. With your other hand OPEN, smack the top of the bottle/hand combination. You need to do it pretty hard. DO NOT do this step over anything important, go find a nice grassy spot. If done correctly, the bottom of the bottle will fall to the ground without breaking the rest of the bottle. When you smack the bottle, leave your hand on top. Immediately lifting your hand will do nothing and just result in a bruised hand. By smacking the bottle, the glass moves down slightly. The water in the bottle moves up closer to the top and creates a vacuum at the bottom of the bottle. This water moves back down fast enough to break the bottom off. Therefore you must keep your hand on top long enough to let the air compress. Luckily that is not very long, because the whole reaction takes place very fast. Do not do this over anything that you may not want to get wet, because it will most definitely get wet, really wet. Be careful hitting the bottle multiple times. When it finally breaks, it could shatter all the way up to the hand holding the bottle and potentially cut your hand. Once the bottom is removed you could sand down the bottom edges to make them smooth!

To see a video of this being done go here: http://www.tvlesson.com/video/4500_party-trick-how-to-remove-the-bottom-of-a-bottle.html

Source: http://www.wikihow.com/Blow-the-Bottom-out-of-a-Bottle

DIY: How to remove the botom of a glass bottle (Wine Bottle)

How to remove a bottom of a bottle: These instructions were given on www.remodelaholic.com.

" First I soaked my wine bottles in warm soapy water to take the labels off. Then taped off a section on the bottom and drew a straight line along the tape. This indicates the line I am going to cut along.

Next I was ready to cut. (Remember to wear safety goggles and a mask!) Using the Cutting Wheel of my Dremel I cut along the line I had drawn on the tape. 

Take your time and let the tool do the work. If you apply to pressure you'll just wear down the Cutting Wheel faster, but you won't make your progress any quicker. (Trust me I tried!)

Making some progress! I like to keep the tape on the whole time to keep any glass shards in check. Also remember to periodically dip the Dremel in water and spray some on the glass to keep both from getting to hot. The Dremel can over heat and the glass could crack if not. 

Yay success!! Next you'll use the Grinding Bit for the Dremel to smooth out any rough edges.

Once your are done with this step you can use the polishing bit to make the edge extra smooth and shiny." 

Photo and Instruction Source and to read more: http://www.remodelaholic.com/2010/09/how-to-make-glass-wine-bottle-pendant.html#ixzz1VhZuOZa9

Christmas Card Idea

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 The lights on this card are made by thumbprints and paint of many colors.


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Halloween Wreath Idea

 

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Christmas in July

My sister-in-law Janae is in town this week! That means crafting and cooking and lots of it!

Today we were crafting and we decided to make a Christmas decoration.We made a Christmas Tree. I am going to use mine as a part of a table centerpiece.


To make them you need:

• styrofoam trees
• yarn
• hot glue gun
• felt
• toothpick
• craft foam
• decorations

All you do is start by tracing the bottom of the tree on your felt. Then glue it to the bottom using hot glue. Next, get your yarn ready and put a bead of hot glue along the very bottom of the tree base and then place your first row of yarn on it. Go around the bottom with the yarn then continue wrapping it all the way up the tree, until it is completely covered. Then put some glue at the top to hold the end in place and cut the yarn to the right length. Using the same glue and wrapping techniques, “decorate your tree”. I used a strand of gingerbread men on ribbon that I found at Michaels. Other cute decorations could be little lights, jingle bells, adhesive backed gems or buttons. Finally, cut to stars from the craft foam. Glue them back to back with the toothpick in the middle. Insert the toothpick into the top of the tree!

Here is a picture of the original Fruitful Find:

Picture Source: http://amillionlittlethings.typepad.com/amlt/2010/12/yarn-trees-.html

Here is a picture of my creation:

Christmas Tree  -  Photo Taken by Cami

This craft was very easy and very inexpensive. I am going to make some more trees to decorate my kids bedroom during the holiday season!


Source: http://amillionlittlethings.typepad.com/amlt/2010/12/yarn-trees-.html

Words With Friends

My husband and I both like to play the game Words With Friends on our iPhone. We play each other, with family, with friends and with co-workers.

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So, when I saw this find I knew it was a great gift idea for those times when you want to say a lot without spending a lot. I went to work making this for an anniversary gift to give to my husband.  It turned out really cute! He loves it and it was so easy and so inexpensive. I have already made another version of this to give to someone else in our family as a Valentine's Day gift in 2012.

To make one of these: you need a shadow box frame, a piece of scrapbook paper for the background and some Scrabble tiles (which they sell at craft stores, so you don't have to ruin your actual game)! I glued the scrapbook paper to the inside of the back of the shadow box frame. Then I hot glued the tiles into the words I wanted. Put the frame back together and your done!

The Anniversary Gift  -  Photo taken by Cami

Source: http://www.rockettstgeorge.co.uk/brigitte-herrod---scrabble-love-you-picture---black-frame-2968-p.asp