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2012年10月15日星期一

DIY Romantic Birthday Gifts for Your Beloved Boyfriends, Homemade Gifts


Whenever someone’s birthday comes, it is sometimes very difficult to think of some good ideas for sending him the best gift, let alone you boyfriends. Today we will provide you with some great ideas for sending your beloved boyfriends with DIY romantic birthday gifts.

DIY romantic meal
A romantic meal
Preparing a romantic meal is absolutely a good idea for sending your boyfriends with the best birthday gift. You can get some more good ideas. For example, you can put the meal into a plastic container and then pack a lovely picnic lunch. You can make him some desserts, such as homemade cookies or brownies. Then you can take your boyfriend to a place which you love, either at home or in the park, and share the home-cooked meal with him for his birthday.

DIY gift basket
A gift basket
There are of course many other great ideas in terms of boyfriend’s gifts. For instance, you can make your boyfriend a homemade gift basket of all his favorite things. Include items such as his favorite 
cologne, candy, music CD and movie. Put a 
homemade coupon book in the basket with coupons like "Good for one back rub" or "Good for a home-cooked meal of your choice." Fill the basket with shredded "Happy Birthday" wrapping paper, and don't forget the romantic card.

As you may conclude from the above, it is the devotion and consideration itself that makes your boyfriend feel happy. Therefore, homemade DIY gifts can really help you to achieve that aim. Have fun with your boyfriend on his birthday! 

2012年10月8日星期一

DIY Paper Flowers Give You a Fantasy Home, Your Wonderland Home Decoration


You may have been troubled by the question of how to make your own DIY decorative items. What about making some paper flowers? After all, they are not that difficult to make and are very beautiful. Let’s look at the DIY paper flowers.
The following steps will guide you in making your own paper flowers. Be sure to pay attention to detail, to ensure your fairy tale flowers. You should also prepare some colorful paper in various thickness. This is a must!

paper flowers

1. Cut the leaves before cutting your first leaf, make a range of templates. This will ensure that your flowers are perfect. It will also be easier to create duplicates. Use between a half and one and a half A2 sheets (80gsm+) per flower, depending on the size. If you go larger, your flower will need additional support. Then cut out a round base. The larger the flower, the sturdier the paper should be for the base. Also remember to cut a slit in the base of the leaf, which you will glue gun later. Cut about 6-8 leaves per template.

paper flowers
2. Glue everything. The small ones are really inexpensive and will save you a lot of time and money in the long run. Watch the video provided and see exactly how the flower’s base should be glued. This is the most technical part of the project. The more you cross the base section of the leaf, the more volume your flower will have. As the leaves go smaller, the cross section should be tighter; otherwise there will be gaps, revealing the base of each leaf. The trick is to hide the base of the flower.

3. Getting down to the base. Now you should plan the layout of the leaves. Make sure the base isn’t too big; otherwise you will see it when your flowers are completed. Have a look at the video for tips and tricks on getting this part right. When completed, you can hang them up; put them against walls or fencing; or use them as décor for your table or photo booth.

2012年10月3日星期三

Champagne Glasses with DIY Candlesticks


For a unique design, one must think of something to let their imagination run wild. Usually, it is of great fun to divert everyday objects into something creative and lovely, say, creating some ephemeral candlesticks for the night sparkles. They thus allow you to showcase your candles, even the simplest. Today we will look at the champagne glasses decorated with DIY candles for home decorations.

DIY candles
To do this, you will need first of all six champagne glasses in clear glass to form the shape a pyramid. Fill the water half and drop it floating candles. Once the implementation is complete, all offers a warm and friendly to your dinners and creates a serene and restful style throughout the room.

Both practical and aesthetic, you can preserve the great candlestick candle wax to avoid staining your tablecloth. It becomes more a decorative object in itself and adapts to different interiors thanks to its simple and refined style. Depending on the season, the colors vary for changing décor that gives the look to your home.

So what do you think of the champagne glass which is decorated with your own unique DIY candlesticks? Have a try! 

2012年9月23日星期日

How to DIY a Homemade Birthday Cake?


Many people are troubled by the question of how to send a personalized gift. This is the epicenter of the headaches that many people have. What about making a homemade birthday cake? Here, I'll show you how to make a homemade birthday cake.

DIY birthday cake
Ingredients:
- 450 g flour
- 400 g of sugar
- 100 g vanilla sugar
- 6 eggs
- 300 ml of milk
- 200 ml melted butter
- 300 grams chopped walnuts 50g decorating and other
- 1 jar of chocolate sauce

1. Take a large bowl, and began to look to wands. Place the eggs and both sugars together and began to beat, until you create a frothy cream. Add milk and butter and continue beating. Then put in the sieve, flour and yeast and let slowly pour into the bowl. If you're not screening, nothing happens with a sieve, we'd better.

2. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees, so that the fan and thus heat up and down. Continue beating a few more minutes, until we see that to stop beating, bubbles form under the smooth surface. This means it is ready.

3. Turn the mixture into the mold and put it in the oven at medium height, for an hour or until done, click on the middle with a stick and pulling clean.

DIY birthday cake
4. In the meantime, take a third of the chocolate cream and nuts and toss and turn away. When the cake is ready and cold, cut in half and fill with the cream and the rest, we cover it.

5. Finally, decorate the cake as you wish. You can add some more cream or fruit or nuts, which is based on your imagination.

It will be delicious! A DIY homemade birthday cake is much more personalized and he or she will be very happy for sure. 

2012年9月17日星期一

DIY Wood Garden Shed Gives You More Storage Space


Many people want to build a garden shed to have more space for storage. And if you need a shed to store your lawn mower, tools, or other items and you need that shed to be inexpensive, you can absolutely make a DIY wood garden shed. Let’s have a look.
DIY Wood Garden Shed

You can first of all build a skeleton of a shed that you can cover with plywood and add a galvanized metal roof.

In history, there’s a man named Butch Bridges who share his designing ideas and photos of how to make a DIY wood garden shed to store things. He just cost no more than five hundred dollars over the course of a few weekends. He put together the wall frame by bolting two levels of square pallets together and adding a roof frame made from 12-foot-long 2x4s secured to the pallets with deck screws.

The roof itself is a piece of carport galvanized sheet metal roofing material and the exterior sides are 4x8-foot sheets of plywood. The door to the gate was constructed from fence boards. The supports for the shed are concrete piers, steel straps, and rebar.

It is perhaps not the most attractive shed ever, but it is very beautiful and very useful as well. You can put all your stuff in and enjoy the space a lot. 

2012年9月10日星期一

DIY Plastic Photo Trays, Best Gifts for Friends and Families


No matter whether you are holding a wedding ceremony, or a birthday party, you are going to be the focus and will be photographed many times. So if you would like to have the memory of this special day everlasting, you can make a DIY plastic photo tray to send to your friends, guests and family members. It’s quite simple.

DIY Plastic Photo Tray
The first think you should do is to take advantage of new printing techniques to enjoy every day in various forms. On the Internet, there are lots of ways to live your most beautiful pictures by printing on mugs, phone covers, poster giants. So you can select some photos first and them showcase them.

Then you should give your picture to a tray manufacture to let him help you with the photo tray. There are trays for romantic dinners, wedding photo trays and birthday photo trays based on the theme of your selected photos. You can even ask the tray manufacture to shape your tray into a heart shape to make it more special and personalized!

Send your friends a DIY photo plastic tray to make him/her happy! 

2012年9月5日星期三

Top DIY Ideas 2012 for A Happy Valentine’s Day Celebration


In most cases, self made or personalized gifts can be a better gift to make your beloved ones happy. In terms of Valentine’s Day, if you really work hard, then you can DIY your own personalized gift to make him/her happy. Now let’s go and look at the top DIY ideas2012 for a happy Valentine’s Day celebration.

DIY gifts for Valentine’s Day are not time-consuming. So you can just think a little bit more and then you are going to save a lot of time. The materials used are also very easy to find!
DIY pained China
1. painted China
If you happen to be interested in art and you're handy with a brush then the painting part of this project won't take long (and if you're not, try using inspirational words or a simple geometric pattern instead), but you will need to make sure you don't leave this project for the last minute: While the painting may not take long, the paint needs to dry for 24 hours before its baked in the oven to make the resulting project dishwasher safe.

DIY seed bombs
2. seed bombs
The materials for making seed bombs aren't complicated -- you just need newspaper, water, and seeds, plus a mold if you want to make a certain shape -- and in the end, you can hand over a bag of tiny seed bombs that will grow a patch of wildflowers wherever they're dropped.

Have fun in painting your China and making your seed bombs! There are more DIY ideas than you can think of. Just give him/her a special gift for Valentine’s Day! 

2012年8月28日星期二

Four Steps to DIY a Simple Christmas Wreath


Life is always about innovation and creativity. When you are getting your own creative ideas, why not take a look at this DIY idea to DIY your special Christmas wreath!

You can use some small sprigs of rosemary from the garden. Or you can refer to some other evergreens like ivy and yew. Just choose the flower or plant you like. If you haven't got any outside space, look for winter greenery on a walk in the park or the countryside.
DIY Christmas wreath

Basically, what you need are as follows:

● A good handful of rosemary or other evergreen plants
● 120cm of wire
● Pieces of string
● Scissors
● A beautiful ribbon

Step 1
Cut the wire with pliers to 120cm long. Bend the wire in half, and twist the ends together to make a circle. Continue to wind the ends of the wire upon itself to secure the circle.

Step 2
Weave sprigs of rosemary between the wire until covered.

Step 3
Tie three or four pieces of string to hold the stems in place.

Step 4
Add the finishing touch: a bow of beautiful and colorful gingham ribbon. Alternatively nice piece of velvet ribbon or white linen tape will also look good.

There it is! Your beautiful DIY wreath! You can put the wreath wherever you want a festive touch: like on the shelf or on the Christmas table as a pretty decoration in your home!