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How to Grow Lilacs
Imagine inhaling the deep, mysterious scent of lilacs wafting through your screen on a warm summer's evening. Lilacs aren't difficult to grow if you give them plenty of water and plant them in full sun. There are over 100 species of lilacs, all of which g...
How to Use a Biscuit Joiner: Tips and Techniques
A biscuit joiner, also known as a plate joiner, is an electric woodworking tool. It joins two pieces of wood together without staples, nails, or screws. A biscuit joiner uses a small blade (4 inches or 101.6 millimeters) to cut a crescent shaped hole in t...
How to Hot Comb Hair
Hot combs have been around for centuries as a way to straighten coarse or curly hair. They’re more temporary than chemical relaxers, and they can get closer to your scalp than flat irons. But they also get extremely hot, so you’ll need to carefully prep y...
How to Deal With a Fading Friendship
While you may think a friendship will last forever, it's common for some friends to fade. Sometimes, a disagreement or falling out creates a gap between friends. Other times, commitments like work, distance, or family result in a friendship slowly fading...
How to Drink Milk if You Hate It
Milk and other dairy products are the best sources for calcium and Vitamin D, necessary nutrients for strong, healthy bones – this is why people over the age of 2 are encouraged to drink 1% or skim milk daily.[1] X Trustworthy Source USDA Center for...
How to Paint a Boat
As your boat begins to crack and fade after several years in the water, you have two choices -- hire a professional boat yard to paint it again or do it yourself. Painting a boat takes a lot of time and effort, from preparing the hull to buying the paint,...
How to Write a Business Proposal
You need to draft a business proposal when you offer products or services to another business. You might draft a business proposal in response to a Request for Proposal (RFP), which businesses or government agencies send out when they have a particular pr...
How to Get Lipstick Out of Objects
Modern lipstick is made with a variety of petroleum-based chemicals, natural oils, and man-made dyes. When lipstick lands somewhere other than lips, its dense color can dye materials permanently. Luckily, if you act quickly, you can get the color out.
How to Make Body Oil
Scrumptious-smelling body oils are perfect for hydrating your skin and giving it a beautiful shine, and they’re heavenly for massages, too. Before you dash over to the department store and spend your cash on a commercial product, try making your own fragr...
How to Make a Flower Press
Pressed flowers can be a beautiful addition to scrapbook pages or handmade cards. You can press flowers between the pages of a book, but stacks of books can be cumbersome and flowers are disturbed each time you add new ones. Instead, try making your own f...
How to Build a Roof
A roof is much more than just the decorative top of a building. A roof provides protection from the elements and precipitation, helps drain water away from a structure, and provides insulation that helps keep the interior of a building warm or cool, depen...
How to Sue for Trespass
An individual entering the private property of another without permission is trespassing. You can bring charges against trespassers with proof of the incident and proper documentation. A suit for trespass is filed in court, just like any other lawsuit.
How to Make Friends in School
School can be tough. Having a group or a few select friends there can make the entire experience more worthwhile. Making great friends in school can seem like an impossible feat. However, with a few tricks in tow, you can learn to make more friends and ev...
How to Add a Bustle to the Back of a Wedding Dress
Even though most wedding dresses don't come with a bustle automatically, it's important to bustle a wedding dress after the ceremony. A bustle pulls the back of the dress off the ground so it doesn't get soiled, it allows the bride to move around after th...
How to Become a Successful Poet
Poems are little machines made of words. If you want to make them go, it'll take some work, but you can learn to be a master-tinkerer in the workshop of your poems. By learning as much as you can about the poetry written today and by writing constantly, a...
How to Pluck Facial Hair
If you have unwanted facial hair, plucking offers a cheap and effective way to deal with this problem. In order to make the process of plucking your hairs as pain-free and efficient as possible, there are steps you’ll need to take. First, you’ll want to m...