Season 2 Finale - thank you for watching - cat interruptions!

Thank you so much for watching season 2 of Break + Remake! We made it! Before I left on my holiday break I wanted to share with you Zelda the Cat interrupting filming by being cute.

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Music composed for Break + Remake by Janet Overfield

DIY Fringe Scarf - with upcycled and thrifted materials

This scarf, man. It's so freaking cool. Not only does it make you look like a muppet, but it's thrifted and upcycled. The base scarf is from the thrift store, and the fringe upcycled sari yarn. Cool, right?

Materials:

Scissors

Tape

Yarn

Base scarf

Sewing machine

Chalk

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DIY Upcycled Tassel Necklace

DIY Upcycled Tassel Necklace. I used a shirt that was 100% silk and over 5 years old. It finally shredded in the pits! You can use what ever item you'd like, just make sure the weave of the fabric isn't too loose. If it's too loose you'll fray forever. I do have stragglies on my clothes after I wear it but I don't care, I work in a costume shop.

Materials:
Shirt - you can use whatever though
Wire cutters
Eye pins
Chain - I wanted a long dangly necklace, so I grabbed a long chain
Jump ring
Chain nose pliers - or use round nose pliers, or just whatever you have around
Embroidery floss
Scissors

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DIY Vintage Jewelry Tree - nontraditional Christmas tree

Jewelry tree! Did your grandma have one of these? Mine didn't, but I know other grandma ladies who had them! If you use thrifted and vintage materials, this is definitely a more sustainable craft, but what about the hot glue?

Materials:

Fabric- I used some fabric leftovers from a theatre show

Frame- it's thrifted!

Backing- the board came with an art print, I just needed to cut it down

Measuring- tape and ruler

Glue- hot and liquid

Brush- for glue

Vintage Jewelry- got mine at a vintage stall store

Cutting utensils- get a xacto and some scissors ready

Pliers- to bust up the jewelry

Wire cutters- again to bust up the jewels

Marking tools- like a pencil

What do you think about me painting the frame hot pink to match my pop-up Christmas tree?

And what is a good, sustainable alternative to hot glue? 

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Aquafaba Whip vs Coconut Cream Whip - vegan holiday treats

Ok, what is aquafaba? It's garbanzo bean water, and it makes a mean egg replacer. But I've also heard of it used as a vegan whipped topping. Was it better than coconut whipped topping? I had to know.

Not that have ever made whipped anything in my life. 

Here are the recipes in case you want to try them, I recommend both!

Aquafaba: http://www.michellecehn.com/single-post/2015/05/13/Aquafaba—Magical-Vegan-Whipped-Cream-Made-from-Chickpeas

Coconut Whipped Cream:

http://minimalistbaker.com/how-to-make-coconut-whipped-cream/

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DIY Foaming Hand Soap

Super simple DIY foaming hand soap. Making your own means less unknown chemicals, and less waste especially if you buy the big bottles of soap.

Ingredient list: 

Water- filtered or distilled if you'd like

Castile soap- I used Dr. Bronner's Castile Soap

Vegetable glycerine

Essential oil- I used lavender

Fill your bottle 2/3 up with water, 1/3 with soap. Add about 1 teaspoon of glycerine, then 2-3 drops of essential oil. Rock the bottle back and forth, don't shake or you'll get MAOR BUBBLES.

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DIY Vanilla Extract - vanilla beans and alcohol

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This is a super simple DIY for you and all your baking friends, DIY vanilla extract! Who knew it was so easy! I'm going to give some of mine away as gifts. The rum vanilla extract is going into Grandma's Rum Ball recipe. That's the extent of my baking ability. I'm a cooker, not a baker.

During Christmas 2015 I made a gingerbread recipe that looked fine to me on paper, but after I made them I realized they tasted like dog biscuits. Dad, bless him, said he liked them but it was a fib. My sister, who does bake, took a look at the recipe and noticed it called for too much flour. Well maybe this Christmas, with a recipe vetted by my sister, I can make non-dog biscuit gingerbread. Fingers crossed.

Recipe:
9-10 vanilla beans grade B - cut into pieces
2 cups 80 proof alcohol - I used vodka and rum
2 months time

Materials needed:
Booze, plonk, hooch - any cheap alcohol will do
Vanilla beans - grade B, the dry ones
Jar and lid for storing

Cut beans, place in clean jar. Pour 2 cups of alcohol over beans. Shake 1 time a day, store in a cool dry place. Ready to use after 2 months.

B is for banilla