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Use a small sponge to blot water from your paintbrush when painting to save paper towels.
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Pad your applique projects with used dryer softener sheets. They work great at no cost and they're washable.
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When hot gluing wood pieces, oil the wood, except where glue is to be applied, with a small amount of baby oil. Misplaced glue and glue strings are easy to remove after they have cooled.
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When making a stiff or firm bow, place a sheet of fabric softener instead of interfacing on one side of the layers of the bow fabric, sew together, and turn right side out. The softener sheet gives the bow the correct amount of firmness, and a wonderful fragrance that lasts for months.
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To keep needles and pins sharp, make and use a pincushion stuffed with fine steel wool.
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For a barrette with interchangeable bows, glue one strip of Velcro to the top of a barrette, then glue a strip to the underside of several bows. This way you can easily change bows for a different look. You can make your own bows too with Jewelry Making Supplies and ideas from leaflets.
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Wrap cellophane tape around new crayons, and you'll find they will not break as easily.
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For buttons that "stay put" - add a drop of clear fingernail polish over the top threads. It reinforces buttons on store-bought clothes as well.
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Before drawing on felt, spray it with hair spray to keep the markers from bleeding. This keeps the lines clear and is especially useful when making faces on small items.
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Decoupage them. Spread a thin layer of decoupage adhesive on a tile, mount a picture, and follow with 2-3 coats of adhesive. Use a sponge brush to eliminate brush marks.
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Tear a piece of foil slightly larger than needed and gently position into the basket bottom. Firmly run your fingernail or a pointed object around the basket shape. Remove foil gently and presto, there’s your pattern.
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Wait at least 30 minutes between coats of varnish.
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To keep a hanger on an ornament, place a small flat button on top of the string loops and dab with hot glue.
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Create one-of-a-kind greeting cards with dimensional paints, tracing paper, and graphite paper. Trace any design you like onto tracing paper. Retrace over a sheet of graphite paper. Transfer traced design to heavy paper stock. Outline with dimensional paints.
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Use a large fishing tackle box for a craft or sewing box. It has lots of adjustable compartments on the fold-out tiers.
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Store your yarn in a plastic zipper shoe bag. The clear plastic window front displays the colors and quantity of each yarn while they remain dust-free.
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When returning a crochet hook to your needlework bag and you know that's the size you'll want next, place it in the opposite direction from the rest of the hooks and its ready to be used without hunting!
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Recycle foam trays from the supermarket into paint stirrers. Cut the tray into strips 1/2 inch or 1 inch wide. The strips are sturdy enough to mix paint. When the paint dries, write the mix recipe or other details on the end with a permanent pen.
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After making a silk flower arrangement, sprinkle some potpourri at the bottom of the container. It gives the flowers a wonderful scent.
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Use a wine rack to renew your bathroom decor. Paint and stencil the rack to match your bathroom decor, and then roll the towels and place in the holes.
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Make sure you have these essential supplies on hand before beginning a spray painting project: Mask, eye protection, clean coveralls, gloves, barrier creams for your hands, face, and neck.
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When working in rubber gloves, stuff a cotton ball inside each fingertip to keep your nails from poking through.
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Don't throw away old plastic dental floss containers! Reuse the containers as embroidery floss dispensers. Insert the floss inside the container, and decorate the outside with a colorful adhesive.
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Cut one 8 x 10 sheet of medium-grade sandpaper into small pieces. Cutting the sandpaper into pieces sharpens your scissors.
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Glue a piece of corrugated cardboard to a foam tray or plate to hold the beads. The beads will stay within the corrugated rows, making it much easier to string the beads on the needle.
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Don't discard a favorite vase just because it has acquired a few small cracks. In the dry vase pour a small amount of melted wax. Swish the wax around in the vase until the inside is well-covered. When the wax hardens, the vase will be leak proof.
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When gluing small projects, use rubber bands as clamps. Wrap the bands around an object of almost any shape. They exert a great deal of pressure, without marring the finish.
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If your acrylic paint has hardened, remove the lid, cover the jar with plastic wrap, and microwave on medium to high for 15 seconds or until soft.
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Put your junk mail to use! Cut off your mailing address to use as return address labels on your holiday greetings. It saves you money on purchasing labels and you are recycling too!
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For drying painted dowels, make a series of different sized holes in a
length of a 2x4 and prop the end of the dowels in the holes. This is
also handy when spray painting several dowels the same color.
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Use leftover coffee to make ordinary white paper look like old parchment. Combine 1 cup coffee with 1 cup water. Dip paper into the solution; place on flat surface to dry. The color and slightly wrinkled texture will make it look antique.
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Avoid paint drips when painting overhead by sticking your paintbrush through the lid of a disposable plastic container.
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Run the hot iron (no steam) over plain paper sprinkled with salt.
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In a medium size bowl, mix 1/4 cornstarch with 3 to 4 tablespoons cold water until smooth. Slowly add boiling water and stir until consistency desired; let cool. Use to stiffen fabrics, ribbons, and needlework projects. Store leftover solution in glass jar. It keeps for weeks.
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Keep a box of baby wipes next to you when you are painting with acrylics for easy clean up. One cloth usually stays damp for at least an hour.
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You can easily remove sticky pricing labels on wood products by placing your wood product on a paper plate or paper towel and heating it in the microwave for five to seven seconds. Make sure there is no metal or metallic labeling on the wood.
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When working with small wood pieces, an emery board makes the perfect file to remove rough edges.
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Deflated Mylar balloons make great novelty pillows for a kid's room! Carefully cut open the seam along the bottom and stuff the balloon with fiberfill. Then close the seam by gluing or sewing.
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Have worn-out bath towels? Fold them in half lengthwise and trace around your hand adding a 1/2" seam allowance. With right sides together, sew around, leaving "wrist" edge open. You now have an inexpensive bath or dusting mitt, and a new life for your old towels.
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Before arranging a bouquet of dried flowers, mist them with water, then place in a sealed plastic bag for 30 minutes. They'll be less brittle and won't break as you handle them.
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To insert a bell in a toy, place it in a small plastic Easter egg. Securely tape or glue the egg together. Insert egg, and stuff toy around it. The size and space inside the egg allows the bell to jingle, and the surrounding stuffing holds the egg in place.
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Write guests' names on eggs with a light-colored crayon (white works best) before dyeing. The dye won't stick to the letters so they'll appear white. Makes great East dinner "place cards!"
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Use a package of powdered drink mix mixed with 2/3 cup of warm water. The hard-boiled eggs sit in the solution until they reach the perfect color.
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Use a spice rack to store your beads. Remove the spice labels and clean out the glass containers. Fill the containers with beads, replace them in the rack, and your beads are easily at hand.
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A ping-pong paddle makes a handy wall decoration for holding sewing supplies. Drive nails through from the back side to hold spools of thread. Glue a cork on the handle to hold a thimble. Tack on a small pin cushion, and add a decal to make it pretty!
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Use a single-edged razor blade as a guide for painting fine lines. Set the blade on its sharp edge and run the paintbrush against it.
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Save the wire from old spiral notebooks to use for craft projects.
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When decorating straw wreaths, cut 4-inch strips of yellow net (tulle) and wrap them around the wreath. The net will not be very noticeable and will prevent the wreath from shedding.
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In a mixing bowl combine 1 CUP SALT, 1 TBS. COOKING OIL, and 1 CUP + 2 TSP. WATER. In separate bowl mix 2 TBS. CORNSTARCH and 3 CUPS FLOUR. Slowly pour flour mixture into liquid mixture, stirring as you go. Knead until dough is smooth. Divide into four portions; add a different food coloring to each one. It's safe too -- nontoxic and edible, if accidentally eaten.
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Paint will pour neatly out of the can if you cover the rim of the can with masking tape. The tape prevents paint from spilling into the ridge.
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