Tag: diy
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Knit Dust Rags
Aug 14, 2024 by HTV9 So this is a practice run of stockinette stitch. It’s probably suitable for a beginner knitter. I’m not going to put in a tutorial here of how to knit or purl, cast on or bind off, or overhand-knot and weave in yarn ends, because you can find all those in…
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Simple Cheese Plate
Jul 25, 2024 by HTV9 This is an affordable and tasty cheese plate that’s relatively easy. The hardest part is figuring out what goes well with other stuff. I like the notion of doing this kind of thing to clean out the fridge and that’s what I did for this one. © http://www.abrandnewbookofdays.com 2024
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Water Conserving In Potted Plants
Jul 9, 2024 by HTV9 This is a pepper plant. I ripped up paper sandwich bags to top the soil and covered that with some mulch. You could probably use grocery bags and ripped up cardboard instead but oddly, I had none. The real heat of the Texas summer hasn’t hit yet but so far…
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An Attempt At Reusable Kitchen Washcloths
Jun 19, 2024 by HTV9 This might not be the most accessible post but it is what it is. Here was my idea: what if I cleaned up the washcloths already in the kitchen, sterilized them, then kept them in the kitchen and used them only to clean said kitchen and its surfaces, cleaning them…
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Cereal Box Cord Organizer Design 1
Jun 4, 2024 by HTV9 The other day my husband tripped on all the cords coming out of this octopus type multi-charger thing. Not for the first time. Since that’s a safety hazard I decided enough was enough. Here’s what I did: 1. Grabbed a pair of scissors and a small serrated blade knife 2.…
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Lemonade Cold Brew
May 14, 2024 by HTV9 The original idea here was to fill up ice cube trays with undiluted lemon juice and sugar mix but the ice cube trays aren’t clean now so that’s out. So here’s what’s going on. This contains the juice of 1 lemon freshly squeezed, about 2 tablespoons of sugar, some tap…
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Edited: It doesn’t work! No-Sew T-Shirt Bag
May 1, 2024 by HTV9 in Upcycling Here’s a T-shirt that is super worn out. There are a bunch of tutorials online for making sewn T-shirt shopping bags to replace plastic/paper ones, so I initially thought I’d try that. Then I realized due to no sewing machine that would take about five hours per bag,…
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Acorn Starting Site
Apr 15, 2024 by HTV9 This is my acorn starting site/oak tree seed starting setup, such as it is. It consists of some potting soil I had leftover, acorns spaced out about 3 inches from one another about an inch and a half beneath the surface, and pea gravel from the top. The pea gravel…
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Air Freshener
Feb 13, 2024 by HTV9 Plastic stuff builds up around here, as do essential oils. So here’s a DIY for making an air freshener out of it. All the materials required are shown aside from the bottle of essential oil: coffee filter, tape, cotton fluff, plastic vessel with lid taken off. The cotton fluff was…
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Improved Pizza Box Laptop Holder
Jan 26, 2024 by HTV9 in Upcycling It started to squish. Filled it with toilet paper tubes and wound up squashing those down to fit inside the pizza box. February 12, 2024 Update: Made it unnecessarily hard to type even after entirely filling it with as many toilet paper tubes as it would hold. I…
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