Crafts

Floral crafts ~ Herbal Hair Tonic

This simple recipe makes a wonderful natural hair tonic. Used as a rinse once a week, it conditions and nourishes hair, improving strength and shine. It also makes a lovely home-made gift. Ingredients: 1 cup (250ml) fresh herbs or flowers...

family crafts: cake decorating with kids drawings

Bakerella has a neat tutorial on how to turn your kids gorgeous drawings into cake decorations. [via crafty crow] Share and Enjoy:

family crafts: printing with flowers

resurrection fern has some tips on printing with flowers Share and Enjoy:

Muni's Guide to the Weekend: SF Marathon, Poi

SUNDAY: On August 3, the San Francisco Marathon gallops out of The Embarcadero and Mission at 5:30 a.m. (Load up on those carbs, runners.) The marathon route will wiggle along The Embarcadero, through the Marina to the Golden Gate Bridge, south on Lincoln Boulevard, hitting Golden Gate Park, and returning just behind the ballpark. Whew. Which means? Parking and driving in SF will be a nightmare that day, but you can find (sort of) helpful info on closures and reroutes here. And, boy, is it exte...

Wood Decor Crafts Roundup

On the Home Style Guide I did a post rounding up the best wood decor crafts tutorials from this design*sponge featured wall clock to the twig lamp from Better Homes and Gardens. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Olympic crafts to get you in the spirit

Filed under: kids, craftsBack in the 1964 Winter Olympics, my uncle won the only gold medal for the US team. Even though it took place before I was born, it's still something the family is so proud of. We're a family that gets pretty excited about the Olympics... because we know that it's a dream that can really come true. You can get your family geared up for the Olympics with some of these simple crafts: Use some red, yellow, and orange tissue paper to create an Olympic torch. If you have kids...

Bar Exam Open Thread: How Anxious Are You?

Hey kids, guess what? It's the last weekend before the bar exam! For those of you who are sitting for the bar next week, how are you feeling? For those of you who are veterans of the bar, what advice would you give the candidates? (Do you even recall how you spent the last weekend before the bar exam? We don't exactly, but we have a vague recollection of an arts-and-crafts project: homemade flash cards.) For those of you taking the bar next week, we're curious about how you're feeling. In our la...

Kiddie Crafts: Paper cup creations

Filed under: kids, Kiddie Crafts I know, paper cups are bad, and I am bad if I use them. What if I reuse them? Can I redeem myself just a little? If you've got paper cups kicking around, there are all sorts of ways that they can be re-purposed into cool Kiddie Crafts. Just this afternoon, I went to the pantry for some dried pasta and realized that there was only a very little bit left. I also came across some leftover party cups that I'd stashed away. What do you do with pasta and paper cups? Ma...

Glass Bottles Turn Useful Again

–Don’t forget! Carnival of Green Crafts is fast approaching. Send in your submissions now.– Out of all the items found in my recycle bin, glass bottles are the ones that puzzle me the most. I know that we can make plastic beer rings into beautiful silver necklaces and the bottle caps into pendants and pincushions but what about the bottle itself? Glass is one of those crafts that is very elusive to me. First there is the process of creating it which involves very high temperatures, taking...

Handbound: Your Thursday Dose of Chronicle Craft

And the Lotta Prints Winner is… Thank you all for sharing so many great ideas and suggestions in our last post asking for your favorite quick summer crafts! I’m so inspired and excited about all of the new ideas listed in the comments. I loved Laura’s uses for Chalkboard paint, which is something I’ve been wanting [...]