Posted by admin | DIY, Home Accessories | Posted on August 25th, 2010
The paste of salt is one of the easiest to mass produce. Reminds the dough and, with it, you can perform various amazing figures for simplicity with which model. When working with your hands, it is true that it should have a bit of skill, but you can also choose to use molds , which allow very realistic finished work of little difficulty.
How to develop mass:
As its name suggests, the salt is the main ingredient in this pasta. But not alone. To purchase your final texture needs the help of three other partners: water, flour and oil. The amount to be used is about two cups of flour, a glass of salt water and another tablespoon of oil or glycerin. These ingredients are mixed in a bowl to a paste, which should not be too liquid – water should be added gradually. When pasta easily off the walls of the bowl and does not stick to hands, ready to work with.
As for conservation, at work you should keep the salt paste ” in a waterproof plastic to keep dry, “says Arlette Martin, responsible and creative Arteazul . Also, if not used all the dough , you can save up to two days in the refrigerator without losing its properties (in a plastic bag ). To be useful , the paste of salt should have a texture similar to bread dough or bread. ” If we use salt, the texture will be rougher, “said Arlette.
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Posted by admin | DIY, Home Accessories | Posted on August 23rd, 2010
Shellac is an organic resin secreted by a red insect that lives in Southeast Asia. It is highly used for musical instruments and varnish to hide bumps and defects in the wood. Its main advantage over other materials is the strength and protection provided to surfaces. However, its implementation process is slow and laborious. When varnished with this compound is necessary to repeat more than once.
Preparation:
Shellac is a varnish Traditional markets are in different formats : scales , bars or diluted and ready to apply. In any of them, is available in different colors that correspond to different species wood. Whenever working with this resin, it is essential to apply a darker tone than that of the surface to ensure a good finish.
The shellac flakes for their implementation requires advance preparation. It is necessary to mix three parts of alcohol of 96 ยบ on each side of varnish and let stand for at least 12 hours. To ensure homogeneity of the preparation, rotate and change the packaging on a regular basis. You will get a compact and smooth mixture.
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This time we will know a new way of organizing our space environment by removing those objects that are small but always present and twirling around the house. Sure we could spend a large amount of money in shelves, drawers, furniture or boxes. But today we have a fun solution for all who dare to organize differently.
We will create an organizer using tubes of PVC . These PVC pipes are the right size to store large number of objects in and also, if using glue together various segments we obtain a quite useful and unique organizer. Also we should not think of it as an expense because of the low cost of these pipes.
What I do recommend is to paint the finished work and give more fun to dress and decorate the space where it is located.
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Welcome once again to our blog. Today we will share with you one of the best ideas we’ve collected in recent months especially created for people who dare to play with the decoration in the home. Let’s make a simple shelf but with a few materials that until now we had not thought of combining.
This is a ladder that will become more than just a ladder. It will become our new rack design and fine appearance. The detail will be on how to decorate our staircase in composition with shelves. Both materials and bring them to the same color to give consistency to our creation. We shall briefly task of recycling to leave as a result an exquisite design work specially created for the heart and home.
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In our blog dedicated to the home not only want to communicate to all stakeholders and innovative creations of different designers from around the world offer and put in the service of decoration but also give our views on various points related to life in the home.
By this I mean that a house is not home. A home is not achieved by money or luxurious decorations. A home is where we live and where we always want to return because it is our history, our love, our memories. So to create a home that we must begin to love our space and people with whom we live.
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Posted by admin | DIY | Posted on June 20th, 2010
The “track” of the exchange Pattex and that it has already been completed and is about to be the lucky winners who will take home a piece of Pattex house, even to remember, starred in and over that known ” Bricoterapia .”
In previous weeks we told you about the exchange and Pattex that was able to take an “object” of the house had been renovated Pattex in exchange for other objects that we could offer in the ” Bloc of Pattex.
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We like to welcome every week with activities DIY. Our readers call for new ideas and all of them are preparing a series of interesting activities that will already know.
On this occasion we will provide a twist on our decor frames. We have in mind that the pictures hung on the walls are painted by an artist or for a loved one, or bine are photographs that decorate our lives. I believe that few of you have imagined even make fabric boxes. Yes, you read right. We will make pictures with beautiful fabrics.
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Posted by admin | DIY | Posted on June 1st, 2010
As always, our blog devoted to home, we become a space to relax and pursue a new DIY. Although our network has a dedicated blog on this subject, we usually steal some of the most fun idea to color our reading magazine and visitors.
This type of activity is part of a fun and very fruitful relationship that we can feed our children daily. It is very important that we make our house a home and not just a house decorated with the best combination’s and more expensive products.
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We are preparing our blog to live a moment of relaxation. We will make a nice activity that will be reflected and embodied at dinner tonight we will have in the house of one of the coordinators of our network .To make the evening an enjoyable time, women in the network have been prepared for the beautiful details of the dinner table we would like to share with all stakeholders.
We will carry out a DIY really attractive and very easy to do. Just need some materials that we will enumerate below. Ready to start? We will make a beautiful table centerpieces with glasses and candles. That is why we need as the main material, a delicate cups and several small candles of different colors.
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Posted by admin | DIY, Outdoor Decor | Posted on May 28th, 2010
On a cloudy day, something like today, I would like to share with you all I’m doing an activity. I completed it and now, accompanied by a delicious tea, I sit with my laptop to tell a bit what I have done.
In the absence of a purse in which to keep all the coins that are floating around the house, I thought maybe I could make one with a few simple materials and easy to obtain.
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