Category: Recycle it

Calm Down Mind Jar

Reblogged from Herewearetogether:

We mixed 1 tablespoon of pink glitter-glue with about 1 cup of hot water, then added pink food colouring and a tiny tub of glitter. The glue makes the water so thick and gooey that the glitter just slowly and gently swirls around, it takes about 5 minutes for all the glitter to settle, perfect to gather your thoughts!

Print out the label above and attach it to your jar. Use a plastic peanut butter jar if you have little ones that drop or throw things!

Fix Broken Eye Shadow

Reblogged from petitelefant:

Do you ever break your eyeshadow?  Like, drop it on the ground and shatter it?  It’s heartbreaking, especially when you’ve forked over serious cash for the good stuff.  I’ve thrown away hundreds of dollars in makeup because I’ve shattered it doing heaven knows what.

I’m here to teach you how to repair it.

how to repair eyeshadow

Here’s what you need:

  • shattered eyeshadow
  • coin {I used an American quarter}
  • rubbing alcohol
  • tissue
  • butter knife
  • medicine squirter
  • {not pictured} plastic bag or plastic wrap

broken eyeshadows

Step 1:

Place the shattered makeup carefully into the plastic bag holding the plastic carefully over the top.

repair eyeshadows

Step 2:

Hold the plastic tightly across the top of the eyeshadow and with the back of the butter knife smash all the remaining bits of eyeshadow into a fine powder.

 

MAC eyeshadow

Step 3:

When the eyeshadow looks like this, you’re ready to go.  Pull the eyeshadow out of the plastic bag, we’re on to step 4!

rubbing alcohol

Step 4:

Using the medicine squirter put a couple squirts of rubbing alcohol into the broken eyeshadow.  Make sure the eyeshadow is completely saturated with the rubbing alcohol.

quarter trick

Step 5:

Now put the tissue on top of the eyeshadow and put the coin on top of that.  Press down with all the force in the world.  You’re re-compacting the eyeshadow, so don’t be shy.

eyeshadow

Step 6:

Enjoy your new eyeshadow!

Isn’t that awesome?  I’ve already done this to three of my favorite shattered M.A.C. eyeshadow compacts.  I’m so happy I can’t even tell you.

Listen, don’t judge me.  It’s the small bits of happiness in life that make it worthwhile.

Touchy Feely Game

This is for little ones with supervision.

Prep:

You’ll need:

A selection of fillers, such as:

  • rice
  • beans
  • small marbles
  • oatmeal
  • baby powder
  • cotton balls

Also a bag of balloons

Fill ballons with items. Tie securely. Be sure to make pairs.

To play:

Have kids separate balloons into matching pairs by touch. Find other ways to play too, like line up the balloons by softness, or by weight. In any case, its fun to just squeeze and play with  them.

Lounge / Workout Shorts From a T-shirt

I’m using this blue shirt as lining for a white pair of pants I’m making.

Cut off the sleeves:

Cut off collar:

Now. Instead of cutting straight up the middle, cut up the SIDES.

(sorry for the bad picture)

Now you have the front and the back of the shirt seperate.
Take the front, fold in half WRONG sides OUT, and sew up the open side until you get to the sleeve, which will be your crotch.

That’s both my legs, one is inside out. The blue shirt is a little short, but that’s okay, I only needed it because I didn’t want people seeing my panties.

Pin up the crotch and sew:

Make a waist band and sew to pants:

I made my waist band twice as tall in the back than the front.

Now the image on your shirt isn’t cut in half, it wraps around your leg!

It says live united, my dad gave me a ton of shirts and a few pairs of pants that he didn’t want. I hope the pictures aren’t too big.
I hope you found this tutorial helpful! I’ve seen WAY too many people saying ‘Oh I made these awesome pants, but I miss that beautiful [tree, owl, cat, ect] that was on the shirt’
From Crafster.org