Cedar Incense :
Harvest mature cedar fronds, those of a dusty evergreen color. Avoid the newer growth, indicated by a lighter green color, thorns, and a more ‘pickled’ smell. Conversely, avoid older fronds that have begun to turn brown.
Pre-heat oven to 180 °Fahrenheit
Remove cedar from stems and place in oven-safe dish, baking sheet, etc.
Place in oven, stirring every twenty minutes or so. Will take around 3-4 hours, depending how much moisture is in the air & in the cedar.
The cedar is dry when it becomes crunchy enough to snap easily in your fingers, i.e. when it loses it’s rubberiness.
You can now burn the cedar on charcoal discs, in candles, campfires, etc.
Properties of cedar:
Purification, mental, emotional, & spiritual clarity, balance.Repels insects, esp. moths and termites. Use in sachets in closets, drawers.
The dried cedar can also be used to brew tea; high in vitamin C, anti-septic, anti-viral, helpful for colds, rheumatic conditions.
Three DIY Hose Clamp Jewelry Tutorials. Photos Top to Bottom:
DIY Vinyl Record Notebook. I always looked at these record projects and thought they must be too much work. But they aren’t! If you can sit through a short 3 minute 21 second really well done how-to video, you will see how easy it is to bend scratched, unplayable records into whatever you want. Tutorial and video by stars for streetlights here.
Easy & Fun Headphone Tutorial:
-super easy tutorial to make your everyday headphones so adorable. (this does use a lot of string so make sure you have at least 3 things of string!)
- To start, just tie a normal knot at the base of the headphones (where you plug it in at)
- Now with your string, tie a basic friendship knot over the cord of the headphones.
- Continue until you run out of string, (which you will) & to start the other string just repeat steps 1 & 2!
- When you get to where the cord splits for the earphones, just repeat steps 1-3 until you are finished with both sides & your done!!!
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kitschy and gaudy and i love it
