The wonderfully sweet Norma from Quality Cords has featured my tutorial of how to make a hand-painted upcycled decoupage canister in her DIY section of her blog! Thank you Norma for the pleasant promotion and for spreading the fun tutorials! Here are the links to the Quality Cord's blog and to my tutorial:
The other day at work (I am a cashier at a health food store called "Akin's"), a sweet lady customer came in and gave me a kombucha mushroom scoby! I was so excited...and so was my husband, Joe, when he saw it...I knew he would love it because he has been wanting one for sometime and he loves working with new experiments for our health...and besides, we both LOVE kombucha! I have posted pictures of our new scoby below as well as a simple photo tutorial and recipe for making your own basic kombucha!
Basic Kombucha
Boil one gallon of water in a large to medium sized pot, add a cup of sugar and a teaspoon of sea salt; keep simmering until all is dissolved.
Remove from heat and add tea bags; let sit for 20 minutes and then remove tea bags.
Then let the pot of tea sit until completely cooled and add it to your desired vessel (we used a vase that I cleaned out with all-natural, mild soap) and then add the kombucha mushroom scoby and cover the vessel with a breathable towel.
Depending on the temperature of the room, you will want your kombucha to ferment around 10-14 days...although if the room is 80 degrees it takes only a week for the kombucha to ferment completely (the warmer the room, the faster it will ferment; however you don't want the room to be too warm...that would make a not very good kombucha). Good luck and enjoy!
I am delighted to be participating in the Supplies for Tutorials Exchange! I have created an exquisitely lovely upcycled decoupage canister with some gorgeous, very high quality digital collage sheets graciously provided by The Magpies Nest. This piece was such a joy to create and it has a very sweet and uplifting story. The Supplies for Tutorial Exchange is sponsored by Totally Tutorials.
Materials:
- Digital Collage Sheets
- Recycled Steel Can
- Glossy Black Spray Paint
- Magazine Clippings
- Scissors
- Collage Glue (I used Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue, but you can also use Mod Podge as the adhesive for the images)
- Assorted recycled magazine clippings
- Bright White Fabric Paint
- Desired Acrylic Paint for interior of the canister (I chose a beautiful golden yellow)
- Small sponge brush
- Recycled Yogi Tea tags (from yogi tea bags)
- Mod Podge Gloss Lustre (water based sealer, glue, and finish)
1. Peel off the label from the canister.
2. Spray paint the canister.
3. Meticulously cut around collage sheet images, magazine clippings, and yogi tea tags.
4. Position your images on the canister and figure out where you want to place each image so that the entire canister can be filled appropriately and to your liking.
5. Cut the images to a suitable size to fit on the canister and glue them in the desired places.
6. Delicately and leisurely apply white fabric paint to the canister, forming tiny dots with your hand comfortably moving up and down; surrounding each image, continue around the entire canister.
7. Paint dots around the bottom and top rim of the canister.
8. Paint the interior of the canister with acrylic paint.
9. Paint tiny dots on the top, inside rim of the canister.
10. Coat the entire canister with Mod Podge, using up and down strokes. Mod Podge provides a nice, protective glossy finish for your images. 
...and that is it! Enjoy your new, stunningly eye-catching upcycled decoupage canister!
"Lullaby of Angels' Enlightenment"
