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How to Create a Secret Garden

Colorful plantings, winding pathways, and plenty of green screens transform an urban lot that’s exposed to passersby on three sides into a private oasis

See full story and more photos at the This Old House website

Photographs by Dale Horchner

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

New Skill: Chiller

Chillers are well-practiced in the techniques of relaxation. Being a true Chiller is knowing how to take time out from making to recharge your body and mind. Check out these 10 challenges:

Meditate

Practice Body Movement

Watch an 80’s Movie

Read a Book

Enjoy Food

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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.

How to Make a Face Mask for Hospitals and Medical Centers

Hospitals and medical centers across the country are asking sewers to make face masks to protect out health workers. You can google “how to sew face masks for hospitals” to find out where fabric masks are being requested.

EDIT: Also see my post on So Sew Easy’s roundup of 35 DIY fabric masks, and also simple beginner child and adult face masks here. 

Stillwater Medical Center is asking sewers to follow the face mask pattern from buttoncounter.com here.

From Deaconess Health System:

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Citing shortages, Deaconess Health System, including Henderson’s Methodist Health, has asked the public to sew face masks for staff fighting coronavirus.

“This does follow CDC protocols that you can find on their website that if all other supplies are not available, that handmade masks that meet certain criteria are acceptable,” Deaconess spokeswoman Becca Scott said.

The release with the video, pattern and instructions was posted to the Deaconess Facebook page Thursday morning and is available at www.deaconess.com/masks. A PDF of the pattern is available here and embedded at the bottom of this article.  

Deaconess has “a sample video” about how to make the masks, which Scott said will be sterilized when they come in.

From Forbes here:

Additional Resources for Open Source or Volunteer COVID-19 Projects:

One of my favorite how-to sites is Instructables. The DIY Cloth Face Mask has almost 100,000 views. It is a step-by-step instruction for those who need it. Kudos to ashevillejm.

In 2006, CDC released a Simple Respiratory Mask design using heavyweight t-shirts in its Emerging Infectious Diseases journal. More of an academic post, but some ideas in it.

A Facebook group was formed last week: Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies. It is worth a visit — in just a few short days there are 20,000-plus members and volunteers.

If you are looking for some research and street-level testing of various materials for DIY mask-making, this post from Smart Air Filters is exceptional: What Are The Best Materials for Making DIY Masks? It also includes a few great links at the end of it.

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

Panda Bear - Boys Latin by Encyclopedia Pictura