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DIY Nightmare Before Christmas Wrapping Paper 

I’ve posted a lot of Halloween DIYs from DIY NBC Props - especially Nightmare Before Christmas tutorials. 

Find the Nightmare Before Christmas Wrapping Paper as seen at DIY NBC Props here. 

You can download the Nightmare Before Christmas Wrapping Papers from Tim Baker’s DeviantArt page here. 

As always, if you see a printable that you like, download it ASAP. It may be deleted at any time.

Closeups of the paper:

The ribbons:

Kristie also made a black and white version of this paper:

Volcano eruption from the International Space Station

A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev Volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009. Sarychev Peak is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain, and it is located on the northwestern end of Matua Island.

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“I realized, really for the first time, that people who didn’t even know me were wishing for my success —  hoping to share in the pride of future accomplishments, but even more important, willing to provide encouragement in the face of disappointments. I hope that by sharing my experiences, others will be inspired to set high goals for themselves.”

- Ellen Ochoa is the first Hispanic director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the first Hispanic woman to go to space. Check out the in-depth Q&A with Ellen below!

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5 Introductory Tools to Programming

Have you been toying with the idea of learning how to program but don’t know how to get started?  Check out these introductory tools to help you begin to think like a programmer.  Figure out how a computer works, instruct computers to performs tasks, create your first game, and more. 

Scratch: One of the easiest ways to get started with programming is to remix someone else’s already existing program. Remix a project using this free programming language called Scratch. You can build games, animations, music videos, and more.

Minecraft: Use blocks to build just about anything you can imagine in a virtual world. Discover engineering concepts, architecture, mathematics, as well as critical thinking skills and teamwork.

Develop a Game: Get started on building out the code, artwork, and music for a video game. These tools will help you build an interactive experience.

Remix a Website: Never seen the insides of a website? Use Hackasaurus to hack your favorite website to have it look and do whatever you want.

Run a Node.js Server: With Node.js, you can mimic the back and forth request/response your browser sends to servers when you visit a website. Set up your first development environment.

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DIY Harry Potter Marauders Map Tutorial and Printable  

Updated Links and Information 2019

This is one of my most searched DIYs on Google and I found out that the links had disappeared. This massive DIY Hogwarts Castle Printable is another searched for tutorial HERE.

This Marauders Map tutorial is no longer available on Instructables. 

I’ve linked a WayBack Machine snapshot of the Instructables post by Muggle Magic HERE.

What You Need to Know:

The WayBack Machine still has the tutorial on how to put together the map, but you have to go the littlefallingstar on deviantart to download all the parts of the map.

This is a DIY Harry Potter Marauder’s Map printable based on scans done by littlefallingstar on deviantart. 

This is the most complete Marauder’s Map I’ve ever seen.

This Marauder’s Map has all the parts to the map - that other DIY maps are missing. 

If you like this map, I’d download it ASAP because printables like this can be pulled from the internet at any time.

For everything DIY Harry Potter on truebluemeandyou:

Go here for Harry Potter DIYs: truebluemeandyou.com/tagged/harry-potter

DIY Harry Potter Monopoly Game here 

DIY Harry Potter Chess Set here 

Below is a simplified DIY Hary Potter Marauder’s Map Tutorial and Printable from Harry Potter Paraphernalia. 

She couldn’t find all the parts to the map, so it’s not as complete as the Instructables’ map, but it easier to fold. At this link, there is a good DIY on tea staining white paper and also a Marauder’s Map Party Invitation at the bottom of this post.

Here’s what the Marauder’s Map party invitation looks like.

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Typology of Ecuadorian canopy beetles. Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

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Never shuck corn again! 

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.

Tortoise Gets Wheelchair Made From LEGO Bricks, Skates Around Like A Pro

“LEGO bricks are making life a lot easier for this critter.

Last year, Iris Peste of Germany began noticing something peculiar about her tortoise, Blade, Ruptly TV reported.

“I noted for the first time that Blade wasn’t so active and fit as the other two turtles [I own],” Peste said, according to the video’s description.

When she brought Blade to veterinarian Dr. Carsten Plischke, it was discovered that he had a metabolic bone disease and couldn’t support the weight of his shell. That’s when Plischke had an idea.”

See the full video from Ruptly TV at the huffingtonpost.

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Hello! Your embroidery is beautiful! Do you perhaps have tips or could recommend webpages/videos on how to embroider? I'm especially interested in how to do these mushrooms/flowers, which kind of stitches (?)/styles produce these artworks? Thank you for posting your gorgeous results!

Hello, and thank you! 

I learned embroidery mostly from books, and have somehow watched hardly any embroidery videos. But I know there are lots and lots of websites and videos out there.

The main book I refer to now for embroidery is 18th Century Embroidery Techniques by Gail Marsh, but the Reader’s Digest Complete Guide to Needlework is my go-to book for anything that’s not in the 18th century one.The Readers Digest one is VERY thick and has a huge range of stuff from quilting to bobbin lace, and an excessively large number of embroidery stitches. It’s a very common book and if your local library doesn’t have it you can get a secondhand copy for pretty cheap. (Here’s one on etsy for $7.) And it’s just one of many similar needlework guidebooks, so it ought to be pretty easy to obtain one. The 18th century one still has a lot of stuff that typical needlework guides don’t though, like metal embroidery.

But you asked specifically about the mushrooms and flowers I’ve posted, and I’m happy to report that those require only a few basic stitches! Needlework guides are full of dozens of different stitches and variations, but most projects only require a small number of them. 

Here’s a breakdown of what I’ve been using, with links to tutorials for each stitch.

Satin Stitch - This is one of the most common, especially for flowers and leaves and other such solid shapes. I prefer to use one strand for this, so I don’t have to un-twist anything.

You can also do Padded Satin Stitch, which is the same except you work it on top of one or more layers of satin stitch, or some other filling stitch. This makes it more 3 dimensional. For my waistcoat I’m not padding it though, I want my shapes to be nice and flat like a picture.

Long and short stitch - Very similar to satin stitch, but with longer and shorter bits so you can fill a larger area, or blend different colours together. This shows up a lot on shaded flowers and leaves. I used it to do a little bit of shading on my tree stump, and to fill in the wider part of my green mossy ground, because you don’t want to make your satin stitches excessively long. 

This little sample I did a few years ago illustrates it more clearly.

Stem Stitch - Also fairly similar to satin stitch, but done thin and very slanted. It’s pretty easy to vary the thickness, like I’m doing for my maple twigs.

French Knots - These take a little practice because you need to get the tension right, but they’re not difficult. I’m using them for the dots on my mushrooms. The mushrooms themselves and their little patches of substrate are done in satin stitch, and the French knots added on top afterwards.

For the ferns I’m using stem stitch for the stalk, and to do the leaves I just do little straight lines coming off them. These are easy, you just bring the needle up at the tip of the leaf and back down again at the end that’s attached to the stalk, or the other way around, whichever. This probably has a name but I don’t know what it is.

(However, you can get a similar fern effect with Fly Stitch. Or, if you want your leaf placement to alternate, with Feather Stitch.)

The brown fanned out triangles on the border are done like my fern leaves too. Just in on one side and out on the other to make little straight stitches. The clusters of 3 green dots are French knots, and the solid green and brown lines on either side are satin stitch.

Split Stitch - That Beardsley inspired waistcoat I made all those years ago was almost entirely done in split stitch, with the exception of a few French knots here and there. Chain Stitch produces a very similar effect though.

Backstitch - This is a stitch I mostly use for garment construction, and it produces nice strong seams, but it’s also good for embroidering thin and fairly smooth outlines. It’s what I used for most of the embroidery on my monster waistcoat.

There are a lot more embroidery stitches, but that’s most of what I’ve been using!

Taken individually the stitches themselves are fairly easy, and when you use them all together in different shapes and colours you get something that can look much more complicated than it really is. I hope this is sufficient to get you started on whatever it is you’re looking to embroider.

Remember to always do samples before starting a Big Project!

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Grass seeds + Soil + a CD case = An epic container garden.

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15 Real Products Created from Children’s Wildest Ideas

Awesome “Inventors!” project by British designer and inventor Dominic Wilcox (who we posted about last year). After gathering over 600 ideas from over 450 children across Sunderland and South Tyneside, UK, Wilcox whittled down the entries to 60 and challenged local manufacturers to create exactly what the kids envisioned. See more of the original imaginings paired with the real-life creations here!

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And here they are:

Thermoception:  Ability to sense heat and cold. Thermoceptors in the brain are used for monitoring internal body temperature.

Proprioception: The sense of where your body parts are located relevant to each other. 

Chronoception: Sense of the passing of time. Your body has an internal clock. 

Equilibrioception:  The sense that allows you to keep your balance and sense body movement in terms of acceleration and directional changes. 

Magentoception:  This is the ability to detect magnetic fields. Unlike most birds, humans do not have a strong magentoception, however, experiments have demonstrated that we do tend to have some sense of magnetic fields. 

Tension Sensors:  These are found in such places as your muscles and allow the brain the ability to monitor muscle tension.

Nociception:  In a word, pain.  This was once thought to simply be the result of overloading other senses, such as “touch”, but it has it’s own unique sensory system.  There are three distinct types of pain receptors: cutaneous (skin), somatic (bones and joints), and visceral (body organs).

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DIY Pop Up Heart Card and Heart Love Letters 

For Valentine’s Day ideas go here: truebluemeandyou.com/tagged/hearts

DIY Find the Pop Up Love Letters Tutorials and Templates from minieco here.

New Skill: Makeup Artist

Makeup Artists use the face as their canvas. We have the power to transform ourselves into anything we want to become. Get started on these 10 challenges:

Make Your Own Makeup

Transform a Face

Do Stage Makeup

Review a Cosmetic Product

Apply Makeup for a Photoshoot