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Hang the puzzle without sticking: in the picture frame
April 2024

Hang the puzzle without sticking: in the picture frame

I like to do jigsaw puzzles several times the same. Now at Christmas time, I have hang various Christmas puzzle (1000 pieces) on the wall, which I hang again after Christmas and keep in pieces until...

Paint great patterns with balls from the Deoroller
April 2024

Paint great patterns with balls from the Deoroller

Great patterns you can paint with balls from the Deoroller ... this requires a few balls from an empty Deoroller, a shoe box without a lid, best Plaka color (so not too thin color) and a sheet of...

Acrylic painting with 3-D effect: bird sand instead of expensive textured paste
April 2024

Acrylic painting with 3-D effect: bird sand instead of expensive textured paste

To all who like to make acrylic paintings: Instead of buying expensive texture paste for beautiful 3-D effects, you can easily Use bird sand: just mix under the color of bird sand and apply. How much...

Superglue tube open without violence
April 2024

Superglue tube open without violence

With this tip you can open a superglue tube easily and repeatedly without having to use force. Everyone who occasionally uses superglue knows the problem: Once opened and closed again, it is usually...

Cut paper with rotary cutter
April 2024

Cut paper with rotary cutter

For tailors and people who like to tinker and rumge ingenious: The rotary cutter! It is a tool that at first glance looks like a pizza cutter and is initially intended for the professionally fast and...

Making arrangements more durable
April 2024

Making arrangements more durable

I have always sprinkled Christmas decorations and wreaths of dried flowers, seed pods and twigs with normal hair lacquer to make them more durable and protect them from dust. Now I came across a...

St. Martin lantern stick made of wooden hangers
April 2024

St. Martin lantern stick made of wooden hangers

My daughter has a St. Martin parade in the Kiga tonight. My little son, is not yet in it, but of course runs with! I just do not have a lantern stick for his lantern. Of the plastic parts with a...

Get the curved cutting mat smooth again
April 2024

Get the curved cutting mat smooth again

A conventional cutting mat (the green ones), which has been arched by the action of heat, can be easily smoothed out in the following way: Lay the cutting mat on the bottom of a baking sheet (I have...

Plant decoration
April 2024

Plant decoration

This "trick" for one Plant decoration I use for several years. The idea came to me when I leafed through a living magazine. Take a Kaffepad packaging or similar. and put them in such a way that the...

Make the rubber solution / rubber glue yourself
April 2024

Make the rubber solution / rubber glue yourself

Gum solution (the trade name) can be produced well. Just leave some natural rubber with benzine in a glass with screw cap overnight. About the amount of benzine can determine how liquid the adhesive...