Directions:
1. Pick out the color of your frame and the colors of the feathers.
2. Plug in your hot glue gun to let it warm up.
3. Try out different arrangements with the feathers, or go wild and cover the entire frame with them.
4. Apply hot glue to the frame, not the feathers, trust me on this one.
5. Press firmly on the feather after applying it to the frame, be careful not to burn your fingers.
6. Let dry.
This project took me a whole five minutes. You can also create other theme photo frames with leaves, flowers, buttons, shells or glitter. The idea for this project came from diynet.com
5 On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, five gold rings. BY ERICA BRITTAIN
So, we all know that no college student can afford to buy five gold rings. Instead of spending the big bucks, we decided to make coil pots that are fun to make and affordable.
Materials:
Sculpey Oven-Bake Clay, $9.99
Directions:
1. Preheat your oven to 175 degrees.
2. After washing hands and work area, knead clay until soft and smooth.
3. Gently roll clay back and forth, until the piece is a little thicker than a pencil and about 12 inches long. Repeat for the process until you have 10 sections. Set aside.
4. Roll out a piece of clay to approximately a 1/4 inch thick and 6 inches in diameter. This will be the base of your pot.
5. Stack the clay in circles so that they are on top of one another. Gently push down on the clay so that the individual pieces are slightly touching.
6. Place the coil formation on top of the piece made for the base.
7. Place pot in the preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes.
Let cool and you will have a gift that is ready to wrap in no time at all!
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, six geese a laying. BY ANDREW WARD
So the songs says the guy gave the lady six "geese a laying." If you've ever seen an area with geese in it, you know just how much they "lay," and you wouldn't want to clean up that mess. We decided to keep the goose spirit and show you how to make a synthetic goose-downfilled pillow.
Materials:
Stuffing or a pillow form, $4.99 for a
12-by-12 pillow form
1/2 yard of fabric, $1 to $4
1 spool of thread, $.50
1 needle, $.50
Directions:
Total cost: $7.99
2. Pin the two pieces of fabric together "right sides together." This means you'll be sewing the pillow inside out. The inside of each piece of fabric should be facing out at this stage. After sewing we turn the pillow inside out to stuff it.
1. Cut out two pieces of fabric to match your pillow form. You want it to be about 1 inch longer and wider than your planned pillow size. This allows space for the seams.
3. Sew three sides of the pillow together. Sew the corners of the fourth but not the entire length. It is much easier to sew
4. Stuff the pillow with pillow form, stuffing, or down.
5. Sew the last side by hand.
the corners with a machine than by hand.
You now have a goose down pillow without the mess.
On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, seven swans a swimming. BY MAGGIE KOERTH
This verse made us rethink the whole "12 days of gift giving" idea. What project could possibly go with it? Monogrammed swim caps? Feathertrimmed water wings? Then, we realized the problem wasn't us, the problem was the song. There were just too many gifts based on fowl. God only knows what kinky, Victorian trend is the cause of that. Because we here at Jayplay are dedicated to preserving your virtue, we aren't even going to speculate on the nature of those kinks. Nor are we going to perpetuate them by suggesting a project based on this lame gift.
No swans for you!
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, eight maids aing. BY TABATHA BEERBOWER
No maids or milking going on here. Well, there is some milk. Here is a recipe for a relaxing milk-based bath soak for anyone to enjoy.
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
Powdered milk, $2.39 for 6-ounces
Epsom salt, $.89
Total cost: $3.28
Directions:
1. In a large container or bowl, combine 3/4 cup of powdered milk and 1/2 cup of Epsom salt per batch.
2. Mix until it's homogenous.
3. Pour the mixture into jars or small decorative containers and give the gift of
relaxation after stressful holiday planning.
On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, nine ladies dancing. BY TABATHA BEERBOWER
Ladies dancing ... ladies ... dancing ... OK, we got nothing. At first we thought dance lessons, but that did away with the do-it-yourself aspect of the whole thing. So, we went one step up — get it, dancing, step? OK — and created our own Teach Yourself How to Dance mat.
Materials
Mats (2 or more), 2 for $5
Leftover material remnant, $.75
Velcro strips,$1.69 for 4 tape sets
Black Sharpie,$1
Total cost: $8.44
Directions:
1. Take off your socks and roll up your pants. Trace the outline of each foot in a piece of cardboard or heavy paper. Cut out the foot shapes.
2. Place your material on a flat surface and trace a foot onto the material.
4. When finished cutting, lay all of the pairs of feet out. Take your sharpie and start numbering each foot with a big black number, starting with the first left foot cutout and alternating.
3. Cut out the material feet. Make at least 12 feet, six pairs.
5. Cut the Velcro strips to fit in the middle of the back of each foot. Attach so when the feet are laid on the mat, they won't slip during a dance lesson. You can attach the mats or just push them together to create a larger "dance floor."
6. Create a notebook with dance lessons in it. We couldn't find any Web sites that were willing to give dance moves up for free, so we suggest visiting the library to raid their step-by-step books, or talking to someone who knows how to
shake their groove thang.
10 On the 10th day of Christmas,
my true love gave to me, 10
This verse always makes us giggle. It's a nice mental image. We decided to go with a project that, if not exactly having anything to do with lords, would include things that would cause them to leap.
thursday. december 11, 2003
jayplay
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