DO IT YOURSELF PROJECTS
Crafts are always fun, especially when you can do them yourself with a few, simple steps and materials that can be found normally around your home. These are a compilation of some of my favourite summer DIYs.
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Want an easy, healthy and cool summer treat? Try these fun and easy recipes that you can serve any time in summer and anywhere.
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Frozen Fruit Skewers
Materials:
– Grapes and bananas or other assortments of fruit
– Skewers
– Other sweet seasonings you might want to add
Procedure:
Take your fruit (I personally recommend grapes as one of the must haves partly because of the frozen texture inside and because of the cool taste) and put them onto your skewers. Freeze them in your freezer for at least 30 minutes and then they are ready to serve!
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Orange Creamsicles
Materials:
– 4-5 oranges (8 oz. orange juice)
– 2 1/2 cups vanilla ice cream
– 1 tablespoon orange zest
– 1 cup heavy whipping cream
Procedure:
“First extract the juice from the oranges. If you’re too busy and important to stand around juicing oranges, you can use store bought orange juice. Geez. Blend together the orange juice, ice cream and zest until smooth. Pour into popsicle molds, but leave the top 1/4 empty. Using a whisk, or a stand mixer with a whisk attachement whip the heavy whipping cream until soft peaks form. You don’t want firm whipped cream, just firm enough that it won’t too quickly seep into another liquid. Spoon the whipped cream on top of the creamsicles, add popsicle sticks and freeze overnight. You can use any kind of fruit juice you prefer. I think next time I might try grapefruit. 🙂 These are a fun snack to serve at a backyard picnic party or by yourself in front of the TV watching Game of Thrones. Either way. I think both options sound just perfect. ” – Quoted from: http://www.abeautifulmess.com/2013/05/homemade-creamsicles.html
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Have a large T-Shirt lying around that you don’t need and don’t want? Turn it into fun, spring blouse, or into a simple prom dress! Here are some fun tutorials and DIYs that I compiled:
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DIY T-Shirt Strapless Dress
An explanation:
First, the materials needed for this project are:
– A really stretchy, long T- shirt
– Possibly a pair of scissors
– Sewing equipment
– Bobby pin
First, you must find a really large T-shirt that has a large collar that can fit around your upper body. If you don’t have any T-shirts with large collars, you can cut the collar so that it fits you (*Note: If you have cut the collar, sew the opening so that it is somewhat circular will help make the dress look more decent). Then, put the T-shirt on like you would a dress,leaving the sleeves under your arms and the collar of the shirt above your chest. Take each arm of the T-shirt and tuck them behind the collar of the shirt so that they overlap. To secure the dress in place, take a bobby pin to secure the sleeves onto the collar, take the dress off, sew it and you have your DIY dress! 🙂
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DIY Short Sleeve Dress
What materials you need:
– Form fitting long t-shirt
– Scissors
(That’s all…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uR5luaDPHM
Check out their DIY website: http://desireandinspire.com/diy-t-shirt-to-dress-reconstruction/