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Old journal ideas (betterhomesgardens)

Posted by on October 10, 2011 in Garden

Rolled journal stool


Gather your supplies

  • 55 tabloid-sized newspapers
  • Mod Podge (sealer/glue)
  • 2 belts

you’ll also need

Sticky tape; scissors; additional newspapers; paintbrush; drill; 1 parcel 10g x 75mm countersunk ribbed-head chipboard screws; screwdriver; 25 shaft screws (optional)

Step 1

Tightly hurl 1 journal into a cylinder shape. Wrap fasten around top, bottom and center to secure. Repeat for remaining 54 newspapers.

Step 2

Cut strips of additional journal a same length as a cylinder and far-reaching adequate to hang around it, permitting additional for an overlap. Wrap a frame around any cylinder, overlie and glue ends to secure. Let dry.

Step 3

Lay 2 cylinders side by side, gluing them together where they touch. Centre, afterwards glue another cylinder on top. Let dry. Measuring about 8mm in from 1 end, cavalcade a tiny starter hole partway by 1 cylinder, afterwards repeat during other end. Repeat with other 2 cylinders. Then secure 3 cylinders together with screws.

Step 4

Repeat Step 3 until we have 10 lots of 3-cylinder sets. Stand 1 set upright, afterwards supplement additional sets around it, gluing where sets touch. Work in a round fashion, until we have 1 vast cylinder done adult of 10 3-cylinder sets.

Step 5

Cut a frame of newspaper, as in Step 2, for any remaining cylinder and hang frame around it, gluing overlapped edges together. As these strips will seem on outward of your stool, a colour and pattern featured on any frame is important, as we are radically formulating a musical thesis or a story. If we wish, we can repeat a same design, though you’ll need lots of a same paper.

Step 6

Using a belt during tip and another during bottom to assistance reason cylinders together and, being aware of outdoor pattern we wish to achieve, arrange remaining cylinders around vast executive cylinder (completed in Step 4) until we form a round stool.

Step 7

Measuring about 8mm down from top, cavalcade a starter hole partway by any outdoor cylinder. Attach outdoor cylinders to vast executive cylinder with screws. Repeat for other end. Conceal screws with belts. For an civic vibe, use shaft screws instead of chipboard screws and leave them manifest rather than concealing heads with belts.

Newspaper seedling pots


Old newspapers make good seedling pots. Germinate your seeds in them, afterwards plant seedlings, pot and all, in a ground. This helps forestall transplant shock, and a paper fast breaks down into a soil. Follow these steps,

using tabloid-sized newspapers, to make your pot.






Stockists: Mod Podge, Spotlight, 1300 305 405 or www.spotlight.com.au 10g x 75mm countersunk ribbed-head chipboard screws; shaft screws, Bunnings Warehouse, (03) 8831 9777 or www.bunnings.com.au




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