What to do when that favorite eyeshadow breaks and it is impossible to use? Don’t freak out! Broken makeup has a solution! Learn how to use and adapt what you already have avoiding waste of money and recycling, especially that expensive products, into new ones instead of buying again and run the risk of breaking again. You can also use the same technique with blush and face powder.

To compact again your eyeshadow you will only need some drops of liquid alcohol! Yes! That simple one you have at home!

Firstly transform your eyeshadow pieces into dust. You can use a pencil to help you breaking the bigger pieces into small ones. Then apply some drops of alcohol (you can use a dropper) carefully. The eyeshadow must be wet but without pools.

Then start pressuring the mixture with your fingers carefully. If you don’t want get dirty you can place a piece of plastic between your fingers and the mixture.  Let it dry for some hours and after that you have your favorite eyeshadow new again and ready to be used!

The Velcro was invented in 1941 by the Swiss engineer Geogesde Mestral. He had an inspiration after examining carefully some seeds that were constantly sticking on his clothes during your daily walks through the Alps. Nowadays, the whole world is using these two layers that can connect to each other. Although Velcro is widely used in clothes and fashion accessories, it is not only in these cases that it can be useful! Have a look in these incredible tips using Velcro that will help you with the organization and decoration of your house.

Remote Controls and Velcro Idea

Always losing the remote controls? Keep them organized using some pieces of Velcro. You can attach them in practical places as the coffee table or the TV. This will keep them safe and always at hand when you need them!

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Rugs and Velcro Idea

Rugs can be an easy trap in houses with small kids and old people. If you don’t want to give up of your rugs but at same time have a safely place for your family a nice idea is using Velcro to secure them in the correct place. This idea is also perfect for people with dogs that love playing with rugs and leave a mess around the house!

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Labels and Velcro Idea

A nice way to keep your house organized and tidy is placing things inside drawer and boxes. However, looking for something when you need it can waste much time. A way of solving this is labeling the places with some tags. Use Velcro to attach the tags on your furniture and boxes and avoid them to be damage with glue.

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Cables and Velcro Idea

Computer, cellphones, tablets… lots of electronic devices also mean lots of cables! Avoid the dirty and the mess around your house holding the excess of cable with some stripes of Velcro. You can also use different Velcro colors to identify which cable is from which device.

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Bathroom and Velcro Idea

Not much space in the bathroom but lots of objects and products to keep? Use some plastic containers and pieces of Velcro to organize everything. You can attach them inside the cupboard or even on the wall next to the sink. This idea will double the space you have inside your bathroom!

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Curtains and Velcro Idea

An easy and cheap way to straighten your curtains as you want is using Velcro to help you! You can fasten them easily and even attach a blackout behind them only using some stripes of Velcro.

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When our cellphone chargers are plugged in outlets, almost all of us have probles with their cables.Sometimes they are too long and mess up around all the way acumulating dirty and dust. If you have kids this situation is worse, they start playing with cables and phones and we are always afraid of them do something wrong or hurt themselves.

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To finish with these inconvenient situations, we are going to show you how to do a cell phone holder to use when your phone is plugged in outlets.I hope this help you to charge your cellphone batteries in a safer and easier way.

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The phone holder project is so easy and simple that anyone can do it at home.As you can see in the pictures, there are two ways to make them.One is using a plastic sheet and the other one is using any kind of  plastic bottles.

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To do the first option you will need a  plastic sheet of your choice and scissors (if symmetry is important for you, of course you will also need a ruler and a pen). First draw a long line in your plastic sheet (about 30 cm). Do the same line on the bottom of the previous one letting about 10 cm of space between them. Connect the lines in their ends drawing a half circle and draw two entire circles in both edges. Use the scissors to cut the plastic sheets and your holder is done!

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If you decide to do your cellphone holder using a plastic bottle, firstly you need to check if the bottle you have isn´t too big or too small for your phone. The best types of plastic bottle for this project are the flattened one as some bottles of cream or shampoo but you can also use water bottles to do it), you will also need scissors and a pen.

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You need to to cut the bottle as in the picture bellow.Draw the lines on the bottle where you are going to cut it.  Be careful during the work because the bottles are a bit harder and it is diffcult to give a shape with scissors. Make a hole in the back of your holder to be able to connect the cables in the outlet. After your work, you may paint your phone holder or if you have a nice cloth you may cover the phone holder using a bit of hot glue.Your phone holder is ready.No mess up anymore!

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Nowadays, there are so many ideas on internet teaching people how to reuse things that would go to the bin that recycling is something common in most of houses. It is so nice when we can transform something old or useless in a creative and useful object for our daily life because, apart from saving money, we are helping the environment throwing fewer things on garbage.

Following this trend, in this post we are going to show you how to transform those plastic milk or juice jugs into creative containers that can be used for different things in your house, from organizing drawers and small objects to a perfect lunchbox for kids. All you need is a clean milk jug, a pen marker, good scissors and a few minutes of your day.

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Start drawing the format of the container in your milk jug with the pen marker. You will use the whole bottom and the front part of it (as you can see in picture 1). After that use the scissor to carefully cut the jug following the line you draw.

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Make some flaps in the bottom edges of the jug (in the dotted lined as shown in the picture bellow) and fold them to the inside. Close the upper part on the edges to make the cover of your container.

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To keep it closed you can use different strategies: use a ribbon or a rubber band or, if you need something more reliable, you can use an adhesive Velcro dot.

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Now you can use your container in different ways. Organize some craft material, jewelry and even small toys in kids’ room or use it as a lunchbox to keep your snacks and sandwiches fresh and safe.

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Do you love make up and have thousands of them at home but always use the same ones because they are on top of the box and you don’t have time to look for the ones missed on the bottom? This idea will solve all your problems! In this post we are going to show you how to make a magnet board to place all your makeup and let them always in sight when you need them. This magnet board is perfect to be placed on your bathroom, closets or near your dresser and apart from being useful it is a really nice decorative piece to your house.

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Materials:

The materials are really easy to find and not expensive. All you will need are:

–          A picture frame on the size you want your magnet board (can be an old one)

–          A sheet of metal that fits in the frame (you can buy this on supply stores)

–          Contact paper or a piece of fabric

–          Magnets

–          Hot glue

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How to do it:

Start covering the sheet of metal with the contact paper or the piece of fabric. If you choose the last option use hot glue to help you and try to make the fabric as smooth as possible.

Then use the hot glue to fix the magnets on the bottom of your makeup. Place the sheet of metal in the frame (if necessary you can apply a bit of hot glue to fix the sheet in the frame).

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Now it is only arrange your make up on your magnet board! A nice idea is using some plastic cups with magnets to place your brushes and other kinds of makeup that you can´t place on board.  I´m sure your life will be much simpler and easy with this simple and creative idea!

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If you think that PVC pipes were made only to be hidden inside the walls storing water you are wrong. You can make thousands of different projects using simple and cheap PVC pipes that you can find in any building supply store or even dropped in some corner of you home. We selected 8 new incredible uses for this ordinary material that most of us have at home but most of times don´t have a clue of what to do with them. Check them out!

Organize Hair Devices

If you are a woman you probably have some hair devices stored somewhere in your bathroom. You can use some PVC pipes to keep them safe and well organized preventing them to break or hurt someone. A “Y regular” piece is perfect to be placed on a shelf or you can use simple pipes nailed inside the cabinet to store your devices.

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Desk Organizer

A creative idea to organize your desk or all the craft material from your kids is making a desk organizer using PVC pipes. Cut the pipes in different sizes (you can cute them straight or in the diagonal). Sand the edges to remove any splinter and make it unruffled and use permanent glue to fix the pipes together on a board (wood or plastic).

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Wine Bottle Rack

Use some large PVC pipes glued together to store you wine bottles. You can use some thinner pipes to create a nice decoration between the large ones. Use permanent glue and don´t forget to sand the edges after cutting them.

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Shoes Rack

Lots of shoes and not enough space to store them? How about creating a rack using PVC pipes?  Use large pipes to place all of your pairs together and save you lots of time when you need one of them. You can use a rope or permanent glue to fix the pipes together. You can also pin them on a wall. More shoes you have, more pipes you will need!

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Organize Your Garage

PVC pipes are perfect to organize places, especially garages! They can be used to store small objects or to keep big ones in their places creating a clean and tidy environment.  Use some rings made with PVC pipes to hold garden tools, brooms and mopes or make an organizer with small pipes pined together on a piece of wood.

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Planters

You can use PVC pipes as planters for your flowers, herbs and vegetables.  Choose the best option for the space you have and plant your favorites in it. Long pipes are perfect to be used as vertical garden. Ring ones or “Y regular” pieces can be used instead of pots or vases.

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Mirror Frames

Do you have an ordinary mirror at home and want to give a nice look to it? Use some PVC pipes cut in rings to make a frame to your mirror and give more style to your home. You can use pipes of different thickness and sizes. Decide the layout and cut the pipes, don’t forget to sand the edges. If you want a different color you can use some spray paint on them. Use permanent glue to fix the rings together and create the frame.

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Wall Hooks

Use a PVC piece called “elbow” to make some hooks on your wall. Perfect to be placed in any place of your house, from the entrance hall to the toilet or kids room they are very useful to hang clothes, bags and other things. Use a big L pin to fix the hooks on the wall and spray paint to make them more charming.

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Shoes boxes are something we always have left over at our home (especially if you are a women). Dozens of shoes box are stored in some corner of house or thrown in the bin every time we buy new shoes or decide to get rid of old ones. However, the next time a useless shoes box appear in front of you don’t waste it!  In this article we will show you how to reuse shoe boxes in a creative and useful way that will help you in the organization of your home and make your life simple.

Drawer Shoes Box Organizer

Use entire or cut shoe boxes to create some separated parts in your drawer. They are perfect to store small pieces of clothes as underwear, socks, ties and kids ‘clothes.

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Cables Shoes Box  Organizer

Nowadays cables and chargers are what we have most in our home!  Sometimes they become a mess, accumulating dirty and dust. If you want to keep them in a safe place and also let your home free of that visual mess you can use shoes box to do that. Make some holes in the box to let cables pass and charge your electronic devices in an easily and practical way.

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Ribbons Shoes Box Organizer

Are you a craft lover and have lots of craft materials around your house? One simple and easy way to organize all that ribbon rolls is using a shoes box! Make some holes or a horizontal cut in the length of the box to let the ribbons pass through. This will make your life easier next time you need them and will avoid the mess around the house!

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Desk Shoes Box Organizer

Do you have kids at home? So you know they love all that craft materials related to art: pencils, pens, scissors, glue, crayons, brushes… One way to organize them is using a shoes box and lots of toilet paper rolls. Place the rolls inside the box and use each one to place the craft materials. You can also make some holes on the box cover and place the material in it!

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If you think that socks only serve to cover your feet before wearing shoes you are wrong! We are here to prove you that they can be more versatile than you think and help you a lot in your daily life. Old socks or new ones can be repurposed in different and creative ways making your life much simpler and better. So, if you have some socks stocked in a drawer and don´t know what to do with them here are some excellent ideas that will amaze you. Enjoy!

1) Socks For Cleaning

As socks have the right size to put your hand in, they are perfect to be used when you are cleaning your house. Don´t throw away those old socks! Use them to dust flat surfaces, clean windows and even the floor!

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2) Decorating With Socks

You can use some new and beautiful socks to decorate your house. How?  Only using them to cover vases, candle holders and even your mugs! Cut their upper part in the right size you will need them. Now it is only “wear” that simple and odd vases and mugs with a cute sock and make your life more colorful and beautiful. Perfect for winter days!

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3) Socks To Protect The Floor

If you have small kids at home you know how they like dragging chairs around the house. The consequence is your beautiful floor all scratched and damaged! A nice idea to avoid this is using socks to cover tables and chairs legs. Cut the socks in the size you will need them and sew one of the edges. Now you don´t have to worry anymore!

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4) Gift Pack Socks

Yes! Socks are perfect to be used as a gift pack for drink bottles! Apart from giving a funny look they protect the glass of being broken and give a lovely look to your gift. Chose a beautiful new sock to put the bottle in and use a ribbon to tie the upper part. Perfect for Christmas and special dates!

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5) Cell Phone Case

Protect your cellphone in a lovely and cozy way. Use some cute new socks to make a new case for it. It is only cut the upper part in the right size of your cell phone and sew the bottom.  You can make lots of different cases, one for each day of the week! Useful and cheap!

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6) Cellphone/ MP3 Arm Holder

If you like doing exercise but never find a place to put your cellphone or MP3 while you are working out this idea is perfect for you. Cut an old sock and use it as a holder in your arm. Now you can listen songs while doing exercise and keep your cellphone or MP3 player safe from falling and get damage.

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7) Socks Puppets

Why don´t you create something new to enjoy your kids while they are at home? Use old socks to create funny puppets and use them to tell nice stories. You can sew buttons for the eyes and a bit of wool on the top for the hair. They will love this idea!

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