2015年1月29日星期四

How to Clean the Glasses Cloth?

Many eyeglass wearers prefer to use a special personalized glasses cloth to clean their glasses. Fortunately, the cleaning cloths themselves are easy to clean. And if you take the cares, they deserve, you will be able to use them for a very long period.

2015年1月28日星期三

DIY Pressed Flower Phone Case

Pressing fresh flowers is a great way to preserve their natural beauty, and by decorating your phone case with them, you can showcase their vivid colors and add a little touch of nature to an otherwise ordinary gadget.

Materials:
- Hard plastic phone case
- Pressed dried flowers
- Craft glue
- Clear casting epoxy resin
- 2 plastic cups - 4 wooden stirrers
- Wax paper - Acetone nail polish remover
- Cotton swab

Directions:
1. Place the pressed flowers on your case and play around with different flower arrangements. If you don't want to fully cover up the beautiful pattern on the back of the case, you just need to use a few strategically-placed flowers to add some dimension and color.
2.Secure each element in place using craft glue when you've found an arrangement you like.
3. Mix your resin according to the instructions. Do make sure you are in a well-ventilated space.
4. Place your phone case onto a piece of wax paper — this is where any spare drips of resin will land.
5. When your resin is fully mixed, slowly pour a small amount of your newly mixed resin onto the center of your case. Use a wooden stick to spread it out evenly, making sure to cover the entire back portion. Add more resin, bit by bit, until the flowers are fully covered.
6. If any resin spills over the edges, dip a cotton swab in acetone nail polish remover, and rub until the resin comes off.
7. Once your first coat of resin has dried, examine your case to make sure all the flowers have been properly coated. If needed, add a second coat of resin.

All done. What a beautiful personalized phone case! What a wonderful way to preserve and display the beautiful flowers!

2015年1月26日星期一

Avoiding Messy Meals with Custom Bibs

It is the dinnertime and you're ready to eat a mealtime favorite - spaghetti. Your baby’s personalized bib is on and you just sit down to enjoy your dinner. You know that your child’s clothes are protected, but a dreadful thought crosses your mind. “What about the rest of the dining room? Custom bibs can only do so much. How can I avoid a room covered wall to wall in spaghetti?”

Luckily, there are a few things you can do along with custom baby bibs to further prevent messy meals.

First, make sure your child’s seat is far away from the wall. You want your homemade spaghetti sauce on personalized bibs, not on your newly decorated walls.
Second, put a small tarp or blanket underneath your child’s chair. That may save your floor from spaghetti noodles or spilt milk. Clean up is as simple as taking off the custom bibs and removing the tarp or blanket.

Third, control your baby's portion. Along with the personalized baby bibs, portion control is probably the best strategy for avoiding messy meals. Your child might have a voracious appetite, but that doesn't mean giving them enough food for 8 hungry sumo wrestlers (who should wear their personalized baby bibs as well). Less food on the plate means less food on custom bibs, the walls, and the floor.

2015年1月25日星期日

Protect the Environment

Our planet is changing. As we all know, there are many environment problems. We need to help it change for the better. There are some simple habits to implement in your everyday life which will make a difference. There is nothing new here but if you follow at least some of these tips, you can be proud of yourself participating in the protection of the environment.

2015年1月23日星期五

DIY Desk Drawer Dividers

When your desk is in a mess, you can make a personalized desk organizer to put the pens and notebooks in order. It is often the case that your desk drawer is always in a mess. How do you deal with this problem? Yes, you can also make desk drawer dividers to reorganize this madness. It is quite easy to make.

2015年1月22日星期四

DIY Personalized Coasters

Personalized coasters are perfect for any special holiday. They're cheap, practical and fun to make. You just need to pick up some plain ceramic tiles for a few cents and transform them into stylish coasters with your favorite decorative paper. You may also love that this project is 100% customizable, because you can mix & match with any paper you'd like. Personalized coasters are also perfect gift for someone special.

Here are what you need:
- 4 tiles each 4" (10 cm) square scrapbooking paper
- Scissors
- Mod Podge
- Foam brush
- Felt
- Hot glue gun
- Clear spray sealant

Here are the Instructions:
1. Cut out pieces of scrapbooking paper 3.5" across, to leave a small border around the edge.
2. Make sure the tiles are clean and dry. If they're greasy, then give them a wipe with methylated spirits or rubbing alcohol to clean them.
3. Coat the front of the tile with a thin layer of Mod Podge, then center and press a piece of scrapbooking paper to the tile. Let dry for 20 minutes.
4. Coat the top of the scrapbooking paper with a light coating of Mod Podge, brushing horizontally and then brushing vertically. Let dry for another 20 minutes.
5. Lightly coat again, sealing the top of the coaster and ensuring the photo is completely adhered to the tile.
6. Cut four small one-inch squares from the felt for each tile, and use a hot glue gun to stick one square of felt to each corner of the tile. Give the dry photo coasters a quick coat of clear spray sealant, which will completely moisture-proof the finished project.

This is how you make these personalized coasters. So easy!

2015年1月21日星期三

Encourage Your Child's Creativity

What's the definition of the creativity? Creativity can be defined as putting things together in novel ways, or seeing the world, or a given problem, with fresh eyes. Creativity is a key to success in nearly everything we do. Creative people are more flexible and better problem solvers, which makes them more able to adapt to technological advances and deal with change—as well as take advantage of new opportunities.

Many people assume that creativity is an inborn talent that their kids either do or do not have: just as all children are not equally intelligent, all children are not equally creative. In fact, however, creativity is more skill than inborn talent, and it is a skill parents can help their kids develop.

So how do you help your child develop his creativity?

1. Encourage them to question.
Children are curious and they ask many questions, with some capable of even baffling you. Make sure never to curb this habit. Rather, encourage them to ask questions. Curiosities are major step towards creativity. So, try to feed it as much as possible. But, do make sure that you don’t get political or dead serious in answering the questions. Provide open-ended answers and always be game with them. If you don’t know the answer, instead of directly saying no, tell them that it was a wonderful question and both of you should search for its answer.

2. Allow them to make creative art and show respect for their creative effort. For example, you can allow your children to paint on the T-shirt by using their hands and feet. And then, you had better not throw away their personalized T-shirts. You can wear their personalized T-shirts. Kids love to see their labors of love to be accepted by their parents.

3. Encourage them to make mistakes and fail.
Some researchers find that children who are afraid of failure are less likely to think creatively. You can share the mistakes you've made recently, so they get the idea that it is okay to flub up. If your child acts disappointed at making a mistake, try saying something like, “what can we do to change this outcome?” or “how could you do this again?” This is Failing Forward, or looking at mistakes as opportunities for growth rather than failures.

4. Stimulate imaginative, independent thought by posing questions.
In projects, avoid telling kids exactly what to do. For instance, when making a birdfeeder say, “I wonder what would hold the cracked corn and sunflower seeds. What would you suggest?”

5. Give them decision power.
Make kids the master, at times. We always want to decide for our children, as we believe that we know the best for them. However, we cannot decide for them all our life, can we? So it is better that you cultivate the habit of making decisions in your kids right from childhood, to make them self-dependent and creative. Although the absolute power should be with you, let them give a vote on what they want. If it’s reasonable, comply with it.

2015年1月20日星期二

DIY Photo Canvas

Do you want a personalized canvas to decorate your room? You don't need to pay extra money to let someone else to customize one for you. You can easily create a canvas by transferring your photo to canvas. Here is what you can do:

2015年1月19日星期一

DIY DESK ORGANIZER

For successfully studying it is important to organize the space intended for studying. The desk organizers will really help you in that occasion. They are really practical school stuff display. Desk organizers couldn't be expensive. You can make any of it at home by yourself. It is interesting, creative and cheaper. Here is how the desk organizer being made.

Choose a Perfect Gift for Your Friend

Friends are special and important persons in your life. They can share your happiness and sadness. Therefore, they deserve the perfect gift! So how to choose a perfect gift for your friend? Here are the suggestions:
1. You should know your friend's interest. Knowing their likes and dislikes is the basic thing you should do. For example, if he/she doesn't like dogs, it wouldn't be nice to give him/her a toy dog as a gift.

2015年1月15日星期四

Personalized Cake Plate

The weekend is coming. Do you still thinking about how to spent your weekend? Maybe creating a personalized cake plate is a good choice. Then you can invite your friends to your home and serve the dessert onto your personalized cake plate, which may amaze them. It is quite easy to make this personalized plate. The instructions are just as follows.

2015年1月14日星期三

Some Superstitious Things to Avoid Giving Your Lovers

With the Valentine's Day only a month away, it’s time to start shopping for presents. Perhaps you will choose the normal gifts, such as flowers, chocolate. Or perhaps you will choose some unique custom gifts, such as custom jewelry, custom ties, etc. However, not every gift is suitable for you to give your loved ones. In the spirit of all this gift giving, there are some superstitions about gift giving.

2015年1月13日星期二

Clean Eyeglasses Correctly

It is often the case that when our glasses are smudged up we reach for the corner of our shirt and clean them off. We probably even know tha't the wrong way to clean glasses, but we still do it anyway. Maybe some of us just like to use their personalized glasses cloth to clean it. Obviously, many of us even don't know how to clean the eyeglasses in a correct way. So what is the correct way to clean eyeglasses? You don't even need special sprays and microfiber cloth to clean glasses, all you need are just a kitchen soap and a normal cotton cloth.

2015年1月12日星期一

Jigsaw Puzzles are Excellent Brain Training

Jigsaw puzzles are excellent brain training, because it helps people exercise both the left and right parts of your brain. In particular, they develop your abilities to reason, analyze, sequence, deduce, logical thought processes and problem solving skills.

While working on jigsaw puzzles, it has been studied that there exists continuous activity thought the brain involving all the cells and parts of the brain. This intense activity works to exercise the brain cells and thereby activate them and increase their efficiency and capacity too.

You can get immense and long lasting benefits out of doing puzzles. It not only sharpens memory, improves brain function, but the clarity of mind and thought helps you clear out the clutter in the mind and the cobwebs accumulating over years. You then begin to see things around them in new light are able to appreciate their life a lot better.

DIY Phone Cases

DIY phone cases are a necessity if you need to change your phone case frequently. It seems a common rule that people get bored of things easily. For this case, the DIY phone case is borderline genius. Basically, you can make any kind of design you want and put it in a clear case so you can change it as often as you like. Here I want to introduce a kind of design to you.

Supplies:
- Clear phone case leather (faux leather would work just as well)
- scissors and an exacto knife
- Super glue

Instructions:

2015年1月9日星期五

DIY Personalized Cufflink

Girls, are you always worrying about what meaningful gift you should give to your boys? Let me give you a suggestion. Maybe the personalized cufflink is a good choice. Personalized cufflink is easy to make and inexpensive. I think you will want to make it.

For personalizing the cufflink, you will need:
- cufflink blanks and glass tile inserts
- Tacky Glue
- scissors
- paint brush

Instructions:
1. Print out the free design download above onto your choice of 8.5″ x 11″ paper.
2. Before gluing, wait patiently for at least an hour to let your inkjet print dry.
3. Place a small dot of glue on the paper and then paint it evenly across the design.Then quickly push your glass tile into the glue. Press it evenly and firmly until you can see the design through the glass tile. Carefully center the tile over the design. Make sure there are not any air bubbles between the glass and the paper.
4. Waiting patiently for at least 4 hours to make sure the glue is absolutely dry.
5. When the glue dries, cut out your tiles! Carefully and closely, cut your tile off the paper. Try to trim it as close as you can, clipping the corners if need be.
6. Cut out each of your darling little tiles carefully .
7.Place the embellished glass tile into the cufflink blank to make sure it fits. If it doesn’t, you will need to trim the paper until it does.
8. Gluing the tile to the cufflink blank. Place a small dot of glue on the inside of the cufflink blank, evenly distribute it with a paint brush and then carefully press your glass tile into the cufflink blank.
9. Finally let these glue dry for at least 4 hours.

This is how the personalized cufflink made. It is not difficult, but need your patience. It may be a surprise when boys receive this custom cufflink. Girls, take actions right now!

2015年1月8日星期四

Painting the T-shirt with Your Kids

If you are in need of craft ideas that you can make with your kids, consider using your kid's hands and feet to paint on the T-shirt. T-shirts are inexpensive and easy to decorate with paint. Painting T-shirts with kids is not only an activity that passes time, but also lets your kids create a design that they can call their own. By adding a thin coat of paint to your kid's hands and feet, you can have your child make footprints and handprints on t-shirt. Your kids can wear their custom T-shirts around the house and out to events once the paint is dry.

Here is the instructions of footprint designs:
1. Purchase fabric paint from your area craft or retail superstore.
2. Wash and dry the T-shirt to ensure it will not shrink once painted.
3. Place the T-shirts on three to four sheets of newspaper or plastic sheeting. 4. Pour the paint in a plastic container or paper plate and use a sponge to apply paint to your kids' feet.
5. Have your kids walk and jump on the T-shirts. Let them be creative and make borders or draw out a design with one toe.
6. Let your kids sign the T-shirts, using a small paintbrush once the design is finished.
7. Hang the shirts on a clothesline or drying rack to air dry.

Here is the instructions of handprint designs:
1. Purchase colored T-shirts and fabric paint in multiple colors including white. 2. Lay the shirts in a row on a newspaper or plastic sheeting-covered table or floor.
3. Let your kids start at one end of the table or floor and paint a scene from their favorite book, movie or computer game across the shirts with their fingers. Assign each kid a specific part of the scene to speed up the process.
4. Once finish the design and the T-shirts are dry, dress each of your kids in the shirts to see the complete scene.

2015年1月7日星期三

Customizing Your T-shirts with Painted Hand Prints

From pictures to quotes, designs on T-shirts is a way of expressing thoughts for people. Want to paint your own T-shirt design? Maybe painting hand prints on T-shirt is a good idea.It is quite easy to create. Just by using your hands, fabric paint you can create your own unique custom T-shirt.Here's how you do it:

1.Wash and dry the T-shirt to ensure that it will not shrink once

2015年1月6日星期二

Personalized Jewelry - An Ideal Gift for Girls

Valentine's Day is coming. Guys, do you still distress yourself about what gift you should give to your girlfriend? Your choices are wide from clothing to jewelry. If you want to make your gift become more special, then the custom jewelry