A simple wire rack dries things easily if you have floor air vents. I
machine wash my slippers (Wal-Mart), and this rack dries them quickly
while retaining their shape. Since I wear the slippers for hours each
day during cold weather, I also put them on the rack every night between
washings. Keeps t…
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Did you know that you can make calls from your Gmail account free to
U.S. and Canadian Phone Numbers? Gmail Voice has made it easy to stay
in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone
and speakers. This used to required both people to be at their
computers, signed into …
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I have made many different things over the years, but never in my life have I thought to attempt making shoes. This tutorial for fabric wrapped sandals from Annekata seems so doable and stylish at the same time. She refashions a pair of flip-flops and a t-shirt into these clever kicks. I might have to give this a try!

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Kate of Two Little Banshees shares a great tutorial for putting together this baby quilt using six different fat quarters of fabric.

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Problem: I’m a Lazy Old Geek (L.O.G.) who moved back into a small
modular home and inherited a single (AKA twin) bed (39” x
75”). The mattress was firm but the springs were soft, the bed was
too soft, so I tried putting a board underneath. It helped but not
enough. Also the modular home is small and…
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All speaker systems need a housing of some sort. Normally we see boring wood boxes with some holes cut in them so that round speakers could be mounted into them. There are a few companies who make some speakers which are not just boxes with holes such as the Bazooka Tube Subwoofers. Instructable user djairjr […]

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Over on BoingBoing Maggie Koerth-Baker interviews Jordan Needham about the underwater fort he and his family built at the bottom of a lake.

The dome is vinyl from the local fabric store. We switched from plastic because the plastic was kind of “cloudy” and the vinyl is optically clear. When The Bubble Room is not in use we take the net and vinyl with us and it is just a metal ring sitting on the lake bed. It takes one person about 15 minutes to attach the net and vinyl and fill it with air.
All the materials except for the vinyl where free!

Inside a Nevada family’s underwater fort

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Instructables user heidiwickersham writes:

Turn an unwanted or damaged blanket into a children’s sleeping bag for some summer camping fun! This is a fun and fairly simple project that beginners both young and old might enjoy.

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If you are heading down to Burning Man this year make sure you wander over to the More Carrot theme camp at 5:30 and Baghdad to have a look at this Illuminatrix which is a one metre square LED matrix.
“The system is contructed of 16 custom built PCBs, each containing a PIC16F1827 microcontroller which receives […]

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It’s pretty that your stationery , inclusive pencils and pens become
green & fresh for your writing and school . Natural materials give
you a new and fresh start . Also they have fragrance and aromatize
your stationery . When you get tire from school , you can see the
natural materials and touch t…
By: farzadbayan

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