If you’re anything like me, you have at least one or two bottles of Perrier mineral water sitting around just waiting to be sucked dry. If you’re even more like me, you want to figure out something to do with those bottles (that will eventually be empty). So, looking around the interweb, I found this cool instructable that uses water, oil, some manner of drill, and a sock to make a sweet oil lamp out of that very VERY empty bottle of life-enhancing, beautiful, wonderful mineral water. Yes, I am a freak who has a slight fixation on bubbly water. So sue me.

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These cool little kicks are something that anyone can make. Minimal sewing machine usage, but then again anyone over the age of 50 can use a sewing machine, so have your grandmother sew it for you if you’re not familiar with how a Singer works (my Singer sewing machine is my other baby). You need a few types of fabric, some other assorted things, and you’re on your way to making hilarious summer flipflop covers (or as we in the interior decoration work say, “flipcovers”). Enough bad jokes, here’s the link!

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Giovanni Militano says:

“The BD-Pipes are a fullrange DIY speaker project designed by Bert Doppenberg of BD-Design for use with the ACR FE103 driver. Each speaker enclosure uses two full-range drivers, one firing forward with the other firing upwards and backwards at about 45 degrees. The drivers are wired in phase (push-push) which results in higher output levels than a single driver system, but more importantly the rear driver compensates for the baffle diffraction step, and thus no electronic correction circuit or crossover is required.”

In layman’s terms, “if you understand anything Giovanni Militano just said, this project is right up your alley”! High five, DIY speakers.

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This is a really cool way to utilize a $2 towel rack. By mounting the rack on the back of any television stand or anything else that houses electronics, you can remove the visible cable clutter and make your life a little more zen. Very contemporary, very awesome. If you’re a neat freak, you can even wrap each cord neatly around the prongs of the rack so that they don’t look disheveled. Huzzah!

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This is an awesome way to make use of old metal components. Weld them all together and make a giant steel skeleton hand that doubles as a coat rack (and possibly a high chair or even a pet bed). The possibilities are endless on this one, and everyone should be very excited about the prospect of their very own hand.

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Shhh!!! Don’t tell anyone, but in this super top secret tutorial Stencil Revolution member Phelyx spills the beans on his method of “tattooing” shirt using bleach and stencils. The results are amazing! It literally took years of research and testing to figure out the best process to create the effect you see above. [via]

Please remember that bleach is a dangerous chemical and to use it with caution. If you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t do it.

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Congratulations, Stephen Arsenault! Our new DIY:happy official logo is Logo #8. Stephen has graciously decided to pass his prize winner loot onto the next person in the winner’s circle, so the $20 Adafruit Gift Certificate goes to Rock Kennedy, who created Logo #1.

Thanks to everyone who participated!  All of your logos were outstanding!

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You know those huge lantern batteries that are the size of bricks? Turns out they’re actually just a treasure chest containing 32 AA batteries! With the cost of 32 AA batteries being between $10-$20, its amazing that you can get all of them for the price of a single lantern battery (~$5). If you buy a name brand, I’d even be willing to bet you’re getting the exact same batteries. Just bust it open and you’re ready to go! [via]

Update: Apparently YMMV. Some, if not all, of these lantern batteries may contain other types of battery cells that will be useless to you. The battery used to prove this false is a different brand then the one in the first video, but there’s still a chance that different brands might have different internals. See the comments before you try this, and let us know what your results are. [Thanks, conedude13]

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Whoa, this is insanely inventive. Some brave soul took a heat gun out of the trash, some other components (like the handle from a scooter), slapped them all together and made an amazing soldering iron that uses hot air (extreeeemely hot, don’t underestimate!) to solder things. There is a large amount of pictures in the instructable to guide you, and detailed explanations of each step. Now you can copy him, you copycat!

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Vote for the logo that you’ve grown attached to, in the sidebar! Voting ends tonight.

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This is an awesome way to dress up old doors, plain walls, and anything else that’s just plain! All you need is a little paper or fabric, some glue/shellac/varnish/glaze, and TADA: new surface, new space! This seems like a “duh” thing, but how many of you have extra wrapping paper that you love, and a really ugly paneled white door that can benefit from this? With my interior decoration background, I have a special place in my heart for sweet, jazzed up spaces - and this fills my need for a home décor post! Everyone wins.

Don’t forget to vote in the sidebar for your favorite logo! Voting ends tonight @ midnight!

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Okay, so we’ve pared down the logos to the best of the best, and now it’s your turn to vote for the new logo, and thus - the winner!

Just vote for the number of the logo you like best.

Voting is over, we will announce a winner soon!

By: Rock Kennedy

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By: Cynthia Poon

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By: Stephen Arsenault

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By: Scott Rogers

^4^

By: Tom Marshall

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By: Matt LaGrandeur

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By: Daniel Garfield

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By: Stephen Arsenault

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Thanks and good luck to everyone who entered! All of the logos look absolutely amazing. I wish that we could have more then one!

Voting ends Thursday night at midnight. Any attempt to game the vote will result in disqualification. Let’s keep it fair people!

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Here’s one for the kids: how to make a baseball cap out of a sheet of newspaper. There’s some pretty intense folding action going on here and then all the sudden the folder newspaper pops open into a hat complete with adjustable brim.

Be the most popular kid on your block or the classiest hobo in town with a newspaper hat.

Technorati Tags: hat, newspaper, origami, papercraft

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Or shall we say “Pasta-shredding-paper shredder”? Any way you slice it (mind the pun), one can use a paper shredder to make pasta out of dough. Can you then use a pasta maker to shred paper? Hm. Something to ponder. We also wonder if it’s an Aroku Saki type of Shredder. Ouch, enough jokes.

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The logo contest is officially closed!

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Okay everyone, the contest, as of 12:00 CST, is closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted a logo. Tomorrow we will post the pictures and everyone can vote on their favorite. We look forward to finding a new logo in the next day or so!

 Thanks again to everyone who participated!

 - DIY:happy.

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Pop-up photographs are really cool, and they seem like they incur a lot more work than they are. A few snips of some scissors, some glue, and there you have it. No mess, no excess paper, just a three-dimensional photograph of you hugging Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam (or Bre Pettis) (at least, that’s what I’d be doing in my 3D picture).

4 days until the end of the DIY:HAPPY LOGO CONTEST!

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