Arts & Crafts: Page 133

Martha demonstrates how to make a Good Thing: candles in seashells. Here's a creative way to turn seashells the kids have collected into objects both beautiful and practical: Make them into candles.

Paige Davis, of Trading Spaces joins Martha to decorate hand towels with stencils. Materials you will need are hand towels (flat weave), sheet of paper, letter stencil, tape,yamping brush, fabric paint and iron.

Armand Asher helps Martha give her pearls a makeover. Pearls are organic and porous, so they can absorb from their surroundings. Today, Armand Asher joins Martha to talk about types of pearls, give helpful tips on how to care for these gems, and some ways to change the look of your pearl jewelry so it will last for generations.

Martha Stewart and kids editorial director Jodi Levine shares ideas for decorating Easter eggs with crepe paper. Crepe paper is one of my favorite materials. It's actually tissue paper that has been reinforced with sizing and "creped," a crinkling method that yields a medium that is incredibly pliable yet sturdy enough to iron and sew. Beautiful and durable, it lends itself to countless applications. In fact, I walked down the aisle with a bouquet of crepe paper blooms! I recently realized how...

In this video, Bre Pettis of MAKE magazine uses an anvil, a hammer, a drill, and a dremel to make a ring out of a half dollar coin. This project requires use of a coin from before 1964 because half dollars and quarters were made of almost 90% silver and are able to be molded.

Is your trash bin overflowing? Grab a piece of paper and make a mini trash box by watching this tutorial!

This week, the thread heads teach us how to take-in/alter our own clothing. This is totally useful, and not nearly as complicated as it looks. Who needs tailors?

This video will teach you how to make a candle that is cheap, clean, and will last for hours. All you need is nail polish remover, water, a lighter and tempered glass.

You can learn how to fold a 5 point star. You start with one sheet of blank paper and fold it in half. You mark a halfway point on the bottom and then you fold the paper to that point.

These are really easy to make, all you need is a long strip of paper. They make great accessories to gifts or to use in arts and craft projects. No narration but good demonstration.

This $20.00 bill t-shirt is not a very good video because the demonstrator does the project very fast and the $20 bill blends in too much with the background but it's a cute idea.

Want to build a unique paper airplane that flies better than everyone else? This is a very cool video that shows you how to build a manta paper plane.

In this clip, you'll learn how to make a spinning spiral in your own home. The spiral makes a great decoration and will spin when hung above a candle.

All you will need is a piece of notebook paper and you will be ready to navigate the great bathtub or sink sea. This video will teach you how to make a paper boat.

Want to make a cool paper folding trick you can show to all of your friends. With this video you will learn how to make a 3d paper decoration.

Bored and want to make a cool decoration? Using a sheet of paper and an exacto knife you can make a paper pyramid tower.

Forgot to bring flowers to dinner for your date? This video will guide you through napkin selection and the folding necessary to make a paper rose!

Need to add some members to your paper airforce? How about a helicopter? This video will teach you how to make the cuts and folds to make a flying paper helicopter.

You can learn how to build a helicopter from paper using origami. You need a piece of paper and a pen, with which you will have to draw a picture of a helicopter. The helicopter should actually be able to fly.

You can learn how to create an impossible shape out of paper. All you need is a piece of paper and scissors. First, you cut along the 2/3 lines of the paper. Then you flip one half of the paper over, and you have created an impossible shape.

This is a lesson on to make a star book with paper. It involves folding paper and gluing it to another. When you are finished you can open it up to a larger piece of paper and draw on it.

Temajin demonstrates how to fold an origami heart. You start with a piece of paper and fold it in half to make two triangles. At the end, you should have a heart inscribed into another.

Learn the knit stitch, twisted knit stitch, purl stitch, and basic removal method on a knitting loom. A will need a knitting loom, wool yarn, and a knitting tool.

Expert knitter Rachel Ong shows you how to add a stitch, which is also known as 'increasing'. You will need medium sized knitting needles and medium sized yarn.

Expert knitter Rachel Ong shows you how to knit the knit stitch, which is the most basic stitch and requires the ability to cast on. A large pair of knitting needles and a smooth, large weight pure wool yarn.

This is a demonstration on how to make a double crochet stitch. This is also called a treble stitch in the UK.

Choose a scrapbook page theme. Select some patterned and solid paper that go well with your photos and with your scrapbook theme. For each page, you will want to highlight one photograph as the focal point. You can use a couple of other photos on the same page, but they should be cropped smaller and only be used to complement the main photo.

This is a detailed explanation on a particular step of an earlier project "Moleksine Notebook Mods". This is my first time working with a video explainer so I'm happy to take comments on whether this is useful, if some voice over would be better, maybe text on the video.The advantage to making your own holder is that you can build it for your own favorite pen, even a space pen.

This video shows in great detail how to thread a sewing machine. If you learn to thread one sewing machine you can thread any machine. Learning to thread a machine is one of the most common problems.

How to string a weaving loom. This is a good beginner video to teach your child weaving skills.

This is a video demonstration on how to crochet a belt. This is an attractive accessory that goes well with jeans. Crochet is also relaxing after a hard day.

This video demonstrates how to make a post-bound album from scratch. The hints given will help you make a beautiful album that you' be proud to say I did it myself.

Windowed photos added to the pages create a fun telescoping effect you have to see to believe. This is a fun project and makes a great gift.

This tutorial demonstrates how to make a yearbook of momentous events. You make tags with the year the event took place. Notebook rings and ribbon bind your yearbook together.

This video shows how to make a stampboard mini album. The inside pages fold out to reveal memory after memory. These little albums can be made in a variety of shapes and colors.

This is a video demonstrating how to make a drop spine box perfect for holding mementos or small scrapbooks. This box is a great gift for almost anyone.

This video shows how to fit 12 photo's on one page with a flip and fold photo album. Using paper strips for borders and a few more embellishments you have your scrap booking page that is a flip and fold album.

This tutorial shows how to turn a scrapbook page into a beautiful wall hanging. Make your favorite scrapbook page something that you can view all the time hanging in a place of honor on your wall.

For those of you who make paper airplanes, this video will show you different types of airplanes. From upgrading the basic paper plane, to showing you how to make the "tube plane" and "the swallow," Bre Pettis is obviously a paper airplane master.

Watch as Kirsten uses ribbon to create a reversible design wrist watch. She cuts the ribbon and uses a sewing machine to stitch the design together, finally gluing buttons to the end of the the sewn ribbon with designs stitched to each side.