Waching daily May 27 2017

Hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world

you know I get a lot of requests for

gifts gifts for moms gifts for dads

gifts for family members gifts for

friends and so I thought it might be

kind of cute to make a little stand for

your friends cell phone and I know that

a lot of you love duct tape and a lot of

you also like recycled things so this is

a toilet paper tube that has been turned

into a stand for your cell phone and I'm

going to show you how to make it right

now for this project you'll need a

Sharpie pen an exacto knife a toilet

paper tube one paper towel center tube

four pushpins duct tape packing peanuts

and scissors I'm going to start by

marking the middle of the toilet paper

tube and then I'm going to place my

phone right at the middle of that point

centering it so that I can make some

marks that'll be on either side of my

cell phone and I just want to make a

little rectangle between those two marks

and just hold it up and make sure that

it's wide enough for my cell phone which

it is and this is going to just be where

we're going to cut a hole I'm going to

take my center of my paper towel and I

just cut it as you can see right down

the center so that this can slide inside

the toilet paper tube the reason I'm

going to do this is so that I can cut

this out safely using my exacto knife so

I can hold on to here I don't have to

put my fingers down inside the toilet

paper tube and that keeps it safer when

I cut it

my fingers aren't anywhere close and

there we go I've got my nice cut hole

now if you have a bigger phone mine is a

rather small phone but if you have a

bigger phone you might need to use one

of these and cut it to length to

actually use for the tube because the

toilet paper tube might not be big

enough I'm going to be using three

strips of six inch long tape and I'm

going to place my tape right over the

top here and I'm leaving about half an

inch overhang

I'm just going to wrap the tape around

and I'm going to do the same thing on

the other side I'm going to overlap so

that I leave about half an inch hanging

over wrap it around and then I'm going to

take my last piece of 6 inch tape and

I'm going to center it right in the

middle there covering up the hole the

next step I'm going to take my exacto

knife and I'm going to make some small

cuts around the circle on the sticky

side and I'm just making little cuts all

the way around this is so that I can

fold that tape in and around the rounded

edge of the tube so see these little

strips I'm going to just fold them in

one at a time or a few at a time all the

way around the reason I do this is

because if I didn't cut them they

wouldn't go in and lays flat and nice as

that so I'm going to repeat that on the

other side

so that I end up with my tube covered on

both sides now what I need to do is cut

this inside out so once again I'm going

to bring that tube back and I'm going to

place that in there and I can see where

the outline of this shape is by just

kind of pushing it down I'm going to go

straight down the middle until I get to the

end and then I'm going to cut across

those ends pull out my tube if you need

to push down where that cut is that

should release it for you pull that out

and then just push those strips down in

so that you now have sometimes you have

to give a little extra cut there so that

you now have that open center that's

where your phone's going to go so it

fits in there nice now you're going to

need your four push pins line up your

first push pin with the edge of that cut

watch your fingers when you do this make

sure that your fingers are not anywhere

near so you don't jab yourself you want

to line those up so you make two little

feet now you might might have to play

with a little bit to get it in the right

place there you go now on the front ones

what you want to do is you want to be

actually outside by about half an inch

and again you might need to play with

these little feet to get them to exactly

where you want them to be once you get

your phone set

because then you're going to put your

phone in there and you just have to make

sure like sometimes if you if you don't

have them splayed enough or if they're

splayed too much it'll tip but this is

nice and sturdy nice and solid now what

you're going to do is you just want to

take one of these packing peanuts and

cut it right down the middle and just

place it on the inside there to cover

those sharp points just so you don't cut

yourself that just keeps it from

stabbing you and again if you feel like

you're you don't have enough support you

can always move those little push pins

until they're in the right position that

makes it stand up where you want it to

be and then just put that packing peanut

back there we go

that's a little more solid and there you

have it a great little handy dandy stand

made for your cell phone out of a

recycled toilet paper tube now if you

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