Archive for the ‘Misc.’ Category
Posted on July 10, 2008 - by Chezlin
Lip balm galore!
After watching this episode of Threadbanger, I decided I needed to make some homemade lip balm. I bought all of the necessities, bees wax, lip balm tubes, scented oil, the works. That was a few months ago. I finally decided to get off my rump and make some balm!
Here’s the recipe I used:
1 tablespoon of beeswax
2 tablespoons of some kind of oil. In this case I used coconut oil. You can either go out and buy some, or you can buy a coconut and extract some yourself! Here’s a post where I made some coconut oil.
a few drops of an essential oil. I didn’t use any for this batch because the only oil I had smelled like orange.
Here’s the tablespoon of wax and two tablespoons of oil.
Posted on July 10, 2008 - by Chezlin
Coconuts: 101 different ways!
This post is all about coconuts. A single coconut has multiple uses, and I’m going to show you just a few of them. Okay, I lied. I’m not going to talk about 101 different ways to use the same coconut.. I’m going to talk about four or five different ways. That’s still a lot!
The first use! Coconut oil. Here’s a bunch of pictures of when my mom taught me how to make coconut oil.
I apologize in advance for the not so great pictures.
Blurry picture of her cracking that sucker open. She was moving pretty fast.
Mmm, this is a good coconut. Lots of meat.
Posted on April 24, 2008 - by Chezlin
Paper making tutorial
Sorry for the lack of posts recently, school is wrapping up so I’ve been busy with random papers, projects, etc. Hopefully soon I can start to post on a regular schedule rather than so randomly. Anyway, I finally had a little time to craft, so I decided to make paper. Exciting!
Here are some pictures of my journey:
Posted on April 7, 2008 - by Chezlin
Oldie but goldie: Shift boot cover
I don’t have time to craft today because I have class ALL day.. so I thought I’d share another old craft. My friend had asked me to make a new shift boot for his car, and when he found the fabric he wanted, he handed me the fabric, which happened to be a bandanna, and the old shift boot, and I got to crafting.
They’re super simple to make.. it’s basically just two triangles sewed together. I can’t give a very specific tutorial unfortunately because not all shift boots are the same.
Here it is:
I hope to be able to make myself one for my new car… if I can get it! If I do, expect another shift boot post!
