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How to Force Bloom Flowers
Flowers bloom in the spring when the weather is warm and the snow has melted. Nowadays, flowers are used year-round for decoration and landscaping. If you have a bouquet of flowers that hasn’t opened up yet, you can cut the stems at an angle, place them i...
How to Tie a Beer Knot
Beer knots are used by rock climbers to join 2 pieces of tubular webbing, which are flat, hollow harnesses, into a loop and make slings. Since you insert one end of the webbing into the other when you tie a beer knot, it stays extremely secure and keeps y...
How to Dye Paper Lanterns
Paper lanterns are a simple but elegant way to brighten up any gathering. Although they come in a variety of different shapes and colors, the white ones are very useful for custom decorations. You can use fabric dye to turn them into any color you wish. I...
How to Keep Brush Hairs Off Paintwork While Painting
It's common for pesky stray paint brush hairs to make their way into your painting, and you might not be sure how to get them out without messing up your artwork. Luckily there are several ways you can try to remove them, as well as ways to prevent this f...
How to Keep Nutrients in Frozen Vegetables
Freezing vegetables is a great way to have nutritious produce on hand at any time. To ensure that your frozen vegetables maintain their nutrients, it’s important that you select fresh, ripe vegetables. Then, you can clean, blanch, and chop the vegetables...
How to Set Up an Easel
A good easel is one of the most important tools an artist can have. There are many varieties, from big easels meant for indoor use to small ones that can be transported outside. Although most easels are fairly simple to set up, the process can be a little...
How to Make an Ice Bath for Cooking
An ice bath might be one of the simplest tools in your kitchen, but it's one of the most effective. If you'd love crunchy, crisp vegetables that keep their snap and vibrant color, heat them in hot water before placing them directly into ice-cold water. Th...
How to Clean a Travel Changing Pad
Like stationary changing tables, travel changing pads can collect a lot of bacteria. To prevent the spread of germs, you can sanitize the with a disinfectant wipe or a mixture of soap and water. If the care label permits, use your washer and dryer to give...
How to Air Layer a Tree
Air layering is a technique to propagate fruit-bearing and flowering plants, such as apple, maple, cherry, and orange trees, to make smaller clones of the parent. Select one of the newer branches on the tree and cut off a ring of bark. Wrap damp sphagnum...
How to Strip Shingles
Stripping roof shingles is a breeze compared to installing them—it’s as easy as prying up the old shingles with a shingle ripper or roof shovel and chucking them in a dumpster. But while the project is simple, it has the potential to be quite dangerous. I...
How to Cook Angus Steak
Angus steak is meat from an Angus breed of cattle. True Angus beef requires approval from the Certified Angus Beef brand, so always look for that logo when you're buying Angus steaks. Angus beef can come in all the cuts that you would find regular steak i...
How to Create a Homemade Nurse Costume
Halloween is a fun holiday where you get to dress up as whatever you want. A nurse’s costume is a great way to pay homage to a difficult profession while still looking great. To make your own nurse costume, get a white dress with a collar, add crosses to...
How to Use a Heat Gun to Dry Paint
DIYers commonly use heat guns to strip paint from surfaces because of the high temperatures they can reach. However, on a lower temperature setting, you can use a heat gun to dry paint on certain surfaces. Drying paint with a heat gun isn’t an instant fix...
How to Do a Pour Painting
Pour painting is the practice of mixing multiple colors of acrylic paint in a cup, then pouring the paint over a canvas. The result is an intricate design of colors and shapes that looks like a complicated, professional piece of art. Acrylic pour painting...
How to Get a Still Image from a Video
Do you need to save a still image from a video on your computer? You can easily get a still image of a video using the screen capture feature. You can also use the Game Bar on Windows, or the Screen Capture menu on macOS Mojave or later. This wikiHow t...
How to Help Make the Internet a Safer Place
Using the Internet has become a basic need in today's world. Everything from official records to family pictures all gets saved online. Unfortunately, the internet is not always safe. In 2015, 230,000 new viruses were created every day[1] X Research so...