How To Tie Your Shoes

This is a really great site on how to lace and tie your shoes. It has both decorative and practical methods. The "Ian tie" is worth learning and the secure tie is probably what I will use from now on. I actually remember the day I got that "aha" moment and learned to tie my shoes, who knew I've been doing it wrong ever since. I've been doing the initial tie, that first sort of "base" tie incorrectly. I always go up and over from the front when I should be going up and over from the back. the site is definitely worth a look.
(click on the picture to go to his site).

How to make a elasticized pull tab bracelet.
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/cr_jewelry/
Aluminum pull tab chair make using tabs and plastic pull ties
http://blog.makezine.com/
archive/2007/03/aluminum_pull_tab_chair.html
Belt
http://
quidnunc.org/tab_belt.html
Better instructions for the belt
http://ohsocrafty.blogspot.com/2005/05/can-tab-belt.html
Tote bag made from coffee packages
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=219322.0
Fused plastic bag tote picture
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=227144.0
Fused plastic bag tote tutorial
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=187283.0
Woven magazine tote
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=52309.0
Another pop tab bracelet
http://www.kaykaykit.com/tutorials/TabBraceletTutorial.jpg
And a monster list of recycled crafts at a website for scouts.
http://www.scoutingweb.com/scoutingweb/Program/CraftsGeneral2.htm

Christmas Card 2007

I finally got my one Christmas card that I send every year out to Ed so my Christmas shopping is done. Becky helped me make a couple of Christmas cards out of a picture of Bosco with the reindeer antlers that Jeanne gave him.
I didn't think about envelopes so I ended up having to make them out of magazine pages using these instructions:
http://www.tammysrecipes.com/calendar_envelopes
I altered them a little bit to make them neater, cut a curve in the flap and trimmed the sides on the bottom and cut the corners on those.
I think they turned out pretty well.

Bread in a Rice Cooker & How To Fold a T-shirt

Here's a recipe for cooking bread in a rice cooker in a Japanese Anime video. Very weird. Reminds me of that Japanese video on How to Fold a T-shirt.

That was the one I was thinking of but here is another one that is good too, for someone that has a lot of T-shirts. It's a t-shirt folder made out of cardboard. The video shows how to make one. Pretty slick.
I love the internet.
When I tried the first example before, I couldn't get it to work, but I'll try again. There are several different versions. Maybe one will make more sense to me.
This one is from a different angle and looks promising. I wish they'd slow down. Maybe it doesn't work unless it's done quickly.
OK, here's another that is really speaking to me Maybe it's just that I've watched like, six of them, but I think I may actually be able to do it with this one.
Yes! We have a winner. I still need practice (or possibly a newer T-shirt that isn't all stretched out of shape). The secret, for me anyway, is that you have to reach over the T-shirt to the side opposite you. I was trying to do it on my side. It really is pretty slick.