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Save a Feral Cat’s Life With a $15 DIY Winter Shelter
Winter is coming, and you can be a hero!
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This Queer House, Vol 10: New Year, Newly Organized Queer House
It’s okay if your end result isn’t completely bare and minimal and perfect; the most important thing is feeling in control of the spaces you create.
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How to Make a Sexy Leather Wallet (and Learn Basic Leatherworking Skills!)
Sew up an A-Camp craft right in your own home!
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This Queer House, Vol 9: End of Year Mailbag
This month, we tackle reader-submitted questions and run through a step-by-step tutorial for rewiring a lamp.
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This Queer House, Vol 8: Baby, It’s Cold Outside
In this month’s This Queer House, I’ll show you how to get your home ready for winter by keeping the warm air in and the cold air out with a DIY draft stopper, as well as a few other helpful tips.
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How to Make a Vision Board (From a Vision Board Skeptic Willing to Change Her Ways)
It’s time to do your favorite thing: focus on your feelings!
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Femme Brûlée: Roasted Pear Butter
“Through my sibling complex I’ve developed a soft spot for loving and identifying with things that go otherwise unnoticed, so today I intend to give pears their five minutes of fame via pear butter.”
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Sew Your Own: Pants Projects for Any Skill Level
Trousers, jeans, and shorts that fit your body and your gender.
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Relevant To Your Interests: Science In The Kitchen
These science-y kitchen gadgets will make you feel like wearing a lab coat instead of an apron.
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Make Your Own Chapstick and Lipstick For Every Pocket
Depending on the day, you may be feeling more lipstick or chapstick, and with this simple recipe, you can make both!
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Get Baked: Sourdough Persian Love Cake
It’s called a “Persian Love Cake” and is a great way of using up any sourdough starter discard you may have. The flavor is sweet (due to the massive amounts of honey syrup), but also interesting and complex (due to the sourdough, cardamom and lemon). It’s delicious, and the cake itself is pretty gosh darn beautiful, too, if I do say so myself.
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This Queer House, Vol. 3: How to Recaulk Your Bathtub Before Crying In It
There are lessons to be learned here from my misfortune, probably, so this might end up reading more like a what not to do than a tutorial.
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This Queer House, Vol 5: How to Patch Walls and Other Easy Moving Tips
If you’re moving this fall, one way to help ensure that you get a full security deposit back from your landlord or management company is to repair any obvious issues in the apartment.
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Helping You Help Yourself #52
Being friends with anyone, taking action on typos in your books, negotiating down debt, houses for owls and more!
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This Queer House: Outfitting Your Toolbox, Hanging Pictures Properly
Just take your time, measure early and often, trust your instincts, and you’ll be a pro at hanging stuff in no time.
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Make Your Own Kickass Block Printed Patch
A patch that you’ve made and sewn on yourself — especially if it’s sewn with dental floss — is a badge of honor professing your ideals, feels, and crew.
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Sew Your Own: Your Favorite Queer Characters’ Wardrobes
For Halloween or for every day, here’s how to stitch up a look inspired by your favorite fictional queer women.
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This Queer House, Vol. 4: Easy Wood Restoration
This is not a full restoration. I did not sand everything down and start from scratch. What we’re doing here is more like restoration-lite, but it should be enough to salvage a Craigslist (or yard sale or attic) find nine times out of ten.
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Homemade Weed Lube Will Get Your Love Pocket Stoned For Valentine’s Day
Chocolate might give a temporary sugar rush, but this DIY weed lube will keep your vagina high all night long.
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Host Your Own Indigo Tie-Dye Party, Make These Amazing Handkerchiefs
We had so much fun making indigo tie-dyed hankies at A-Camp! For those of you who couldn’t be there or would like to host your own indigo parties this summer, here’s a simple tutorial to get you started.