Tatting is a special kind of lace. Thin, with many small holes, it is manually created using the shuttle. Even at first glance it is easy to distinguish it from any other weaving. Tatting is famous for its sophistication and variety of applications. From traditional napkins to lace bouquets, brooches, ties, gloves, and even curtains.

A homemade alcohol burner can come in handy, say, while fishing, camping, in the woods. With it, you can reheat food or boil water. It can also be used in various other experiments and experiments. Filled with alcohol, it does not give soot and foreign smell, and due to the small size it can fit almost anywhere.

In this review, the author shares the old-fashioned way how to make a good knife sharpener from the old "bald" file. Such a thing is useful in every home, workshop, garage. In addition to the fact that a home-made sharpener does its job perfectly, it will also last a long time. Well, perhaps one of the main advantages of this sharpener is accessibility.

Sometimes such situations arise when you need to turn on the light in the room on and off at dawn every day at dawn, i.e. to imitate daylight hours in any closed room. This may be required, for example, when growing plants or keeping animals, where precise adherence to the day / night regime is necessary.

To knit an octopus toy, you need to take 100 g of yarn of medium thickness of pink color, 50 g of the same quality yarn of violet color, floss thread or simple threads of white and black for eyes, red, bright pink for a smile and hook number 3- four. The body of an octopus. 1 row. We knit a chain of 2 air loops with a pink thread and close it in a ring; we knit a half-column in the first loop.

Money tree is not only the most popular, but also the most effective talisman of wealth. In addition, it will decorate any interior. It’s quite easy to make a money tree with your own hands, it is enough to stock up with the necessary materials, time and inspiration. So, to make a money tree you will need: fake banknotes of any value; foam ball of the desired diameter; old waste pen or chopstick for chinese food; threads alabaster; a small flower pot or any unnecessary capacity; glue or hot glue gun; foamiran or any fabric; sisal, half beads or coins decorative ribbon or any beautiful lace.

Do you want to make not only a beautiful, but also a useful gift for the most romantic holiday, which will be relevant not only on February 14, but throughout the year? Then prepare a dense cotton fabric, for example, a two-thread, red cotton flaps with different patterns (in a flower, a cage, a strip, polka dots, etc.).

To unscrew the slotted nuts, which are often used on mopeds, motorcycles and other equipment, a special slotted wrench is usually used. However, if it is not at hand, then you can do with a homemade tool. To make this device you will need a piece of metal pipe and a bearing.

If a tool has served faithfully for a long time, even a broken one is dear to the heart of a do-it-yourselfer. When one of the sponges breaks at the pliers, do not rush to throw them away, they will still serve. To make a tool for wire and nails, pliers need to be finalized. Firstly, the remaining sponge is sawed off and the front part is rounded, secondly, a hole is made and a cut is made to it, and in conclusion, you can sharpen the cutting edges on the sides.

So the warm summer days passed, leaving only the aroma of flowers and a myriad of colors in mind. And we will leave a piece of summer - a tea rose - in the flower of the leaf. It’s a pity that it doesn’t smell. Revel (it is also called foamiran) - the foam rubber structure is a very pleasant and pliable material that will allow you to create incredibly realistic flowers.

Here I made such a simple, and most importantly, very necessary backlight, with my own hands from a Chinese lamp. After all, you can’t buy eyes, and working on a computer in a dimly lit room is very harmful to the eyes. This lamp can be bought for 100-200 rubles. It is powered by 3 finger batteries, that is - 4.5 volts.

As a basis for the countertop, massive oak driftwood is used, sawn into two parts and adjusted to the desired size. In two halves, it is necessary to use a hand milling cutter to make a recess of a square shape. Then the surface is impregnated with mineral oil. At the next stage, a rectangular "formwork" is made of plastic of the required width and length into which the tabletop is laid.