Jack-O-Lantern stencil patterns
There are lots of great stencils for you to carve a perfect Jack-O-Lantern this halloween like this Crazy Cat. Link.
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Make roses out of Maple leaves
As the Fall leaves cover the sidewalk, here’s a great recycling project for you. With this tutorial you can learn how to fold roses out of Maple leaves. The autumn colors look great for decor and they don’t need any watering. Link.
Laptop Sleeve from Old Pants
Melissa says, “A complete tutorial for turning a pair of old corduroys and a sweatshirt into a lined sleeve for a 12″ iBook or Powerbook. Great step-by-step instructions (with photos!) and a brilliant recycling idea.” Link.
HOW TO – Build up a bike
Joe has a good Instructable on hacking together a bike from parts you might find/have/get, he writes – “This is a guide to building up a bike from parts. It should help you get the parts and tools you need to get you pedalling along in no time. It assumes that you have tinkered with […]
HOW TO – Make a “Flailing victim” Halloween decoration
Here’s a pretty realistic “Flailing victim” Halloween decoration for your haunted house or for outside your home using a PVC skeleton, Mjeden2006 writes – “The finished body is quite realistic in its movement. The body here has been flailing for as long as an hour continuously without a problem. I needed to ‘sprinkle’ watered down […]
Basement arcade
Before After Jeff Kinder turned his basement in to a retro gaming heaven, including pumping in ambient arcade sounds, he writes “For the final phase of my project I installed 4 speakers up in-between the joists which play all 80’s music and the “Arcade Ambience” sound effect files that I downloaded from Andy Hofle’s website. […]
MIB (Men in Black) Halloween costume
Here’s how to dress up as Agent J/K along with creating a gigantic gun made from PVC…. Honus writes – “First you’ll need the obvious black jacket (preferably three button- I used a two button black blazer and added the third button), black pants, black shoes, black tie and white shirt. Don’t forget the dark […]