DIY Clothes Racks Dividers

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Just back from vacation and after having done a mountain of laundry, I crave ORDER. Clothes order. Everywhere order. I need a more organized life. Now. image credit: paperpartydesignco.etsy.com   OK. It’s not ‘that’ urgent, but I realize we all need organizing tools such as these dividers for your clothes racks. Besides organizational-neat-‘freaks’ and order-craving, [...]

Granny Square Shawl w Halter Top, Free Crochet Pattern

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Canadian Living did it with this darling summer crochet set of a granny square Kaleidoscope shawl and a matching halter top finished with rosette flowers. Darling. Floral & bright, but not too floral nor not too bright. Attractive, but a bit modest also. Just right. How Canadian!!!         What do you think [...]

Recycled Juice Boxes = Tote Bag Patterns

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Going green does not mean boring. It means Stylish! This Recycled Juice Box pattern is the ’living’ proof of how recycling has taken on a whimsical, recycling, refashion-tangent and that there’s no going back! Great project to make this summer, but you got to start saving your used juice boxes now as you’ll need 20 [...]

DIY Linky Party

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(This party is closed, but the current party is listed on our Fine Craft Guild home page. See you there!) Today, we’re having our first DIY Tutorial linky party. The official date is really tomorrow, but as I suspect this to be technically complicated, I gave myself and everyone else an extra day. Hope you [...]

Decorative Pillows :: Beautiful Birdcage Craft Giveaways

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Did you see this fabulous bird pillow tutorial made by Bev from Flamingo Toes for us?  It’s a beautifully embellished pillow tutorial with lots of techniques and tips to get the ‘just so’ detail.           This bird pillow is a match to two other pillows she’d just designed, one of a [...]

Free Butterfly Craft Ideas & Tutorials

Spring, that annual period of transformation… So, I thought it’s time to work with a symbol that marks ‘transformation’ like no other symbol does: the butterfly. We ALL need butterflies. To create ‘how to’s for my craft readers, I’ve collected and developed ideas and free craft tutorials, stencils, templates, plus other design tools~ of use [...]

Homemade Relax Tea

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Home-made relax tea. Delicious. Healthy. Inexpensive. Good for the environment. Yes, avoid all that packaging and save some serious money too! And…. RELAX!!!! Yesterday we posted ‘Love Jar’: a tutorial on how to embellish an empty honey jar to transform it into a wonderful Mother’s Day gift ~ a jar for her desk or craft [...]

How to Draw a Simple Rose ~ Flowers for Mothers Day

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If there is one day of the year, that moms like to get flowers, it’s on Mothers Day.  It’s easy & fun to be creative with this general notion of flowers though. …. You could make a her a pillow with flower embroidery/embellishments, start some daffodils into a handmade basket for her ahead of time, [...]

Cool Girl Craft: How to Make Elastic Hair Ties

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What to do on a rainy weekend? ???!!! Oh, it’s easy: bejewel a plain, ordinary hair crunchy* into a work of art. How to Make a Jewel Crunchy/Hair Tie Here is how ~ it’s a simple formula:   1. Find some seed beads. 2. Find some matching colored sequins 3. And some thread (and a [...]

2010 Challenge: 20 Days, 10 Crafts

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A  new year, a new plan. That’s how it is at FineCraftGuild. Lots of things to do!!!  A craft a day ~ set the timer on…. Let 2010 be an action-filled year.  We hope you’ll join our 2010 craft challenge. You can join any time during the year. The best entries will be featured here [...]