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Plans for Solar Cookers -- The Solar Cooking Archive - - Plans for over 50 different solar cookers, using a wide variety of materials - cardboard, foil, metal, glass, wood, even cob. There's a very simple one that uses just an old tire inner tube, a flat piece of wood, and a sheet of glass.

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Build an inexpensive playhouse for your toddler - - "Here is a project for new parents, who, After spending most of their $$$ on diapers and formula, find it difficult to spend more on expensive toys! The playhouse costs next to nothing (well under $20.00) and is as much fun to make, as it is for your child to play in."

Composition Workshop - - Whether you're drawing, painting, making a collage, a card, a web page or a photograph, its success is largely dependent upon the laws of composition- the mysterious chemistry that happens when people look at your creation, and makes it seem interesting...or boring. Photographer Harry Snowden wrote this nifty, one-page, illustrated intro to composition. Check it out!

How To Make A Duct Tape Wallet - - You may not have anything to put in it, but you can still afford this wallet! More designs here, here, and here

How To Make A RFID Blocking Wallet - - Keep the spies at bay! The maximum-security version of the duct tape wallet.

How to Make Musical Rainsticks - - Make a colorful Rainstick using recycled materials and stuff you probably have around the house.

Making Rose Petal Beads - - Just the thing for an early Summer's Day. [7k] Here's another recipe for Rose Petal Beads and here's one with pictures. [5k]

Paper CD Case - - Just fill in the form, click "Create CD Case", and print out either a paper case, or a jewel case liner.

Plans for Solar Cookers -- The Solar Cooking Archive - - Plans for over 50 different solar cookers, using a wide variety of materials - cardboard, foil, metal, glass, wood, even cob. There's a very simple one that uses just an old tire inner tube, a flat piece of wood, and a sheet of glass.

Soap Making Essentials - - And much more! Cathy Winsby has been making soap since 1998. She generously shares everything you need to know to make your own soaps and non-toxic household cleaners. She covers the materals you'll need, the various methods soapmakers use, many specific recipes, decorative, packaging and marketing ideas, as well as resources, like lye calculators (essential if you want to create your own recipes), a glossary of soapmaking terms, links to soapmaking forums, a troubleshooting guide, FAQs, and close to a thousand answered questions from visitors to her site, many of them with comments from readers.

This to That - Glue Advice - - This site, maintained by a theater prop-builder, is the place to go when you need to glue. You simply choose the two things you want to stick together and click, "Let's Glue!". The result is a page devoted to the various glues and procedures appropriate to the two materials.

Toys From Trash - - Some fun toys, from beginning of the millenium.

Traditional Soap Making - - Clean out the fireplace or woodstove- Here's a good use for all those wood ashes! Soap made the original way- from wood ashes and natural fats and oils. A complete, very detailed guide.

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Paper Crafts - a collection of articles on paper crafts