DIY: Shutters as Magazine Racks
Share : Shutter-love! Fancy owning this recycled shutter cum magazine rack. I want to own one. Teal, aqua, or Robin Egg’s blue happen to be some of my favorite paint colors, so this shutter caught my eye. Note: this kind of aqua blue / teal always makes me feel like I’m on [...]
Free Fashion Sewing Patterns
Share : overview of free fashion sewing patterns, or DIY garment make-overs that I just luv’…. Yes, I’m showing you part of my Pinterest page on Fashion :: Free Sewing Patterns, as I know many of you are not yet following me there… You can fix this right now by simply clicking that bright [...]
How to Make Solar Panels
Share heating solar panels made with 180 soda cans. How to Make Your Own Solar Panels You can see I am on a greenhouse / gardening – kick. And so I followed Daniel Strohl from Hemmings.com, who made this solar panel out of need for heating. He wanted to tinker in his garage but [...]
PS I Made This
Share great title, great book. Part designer DIYPart fashion Part lifestyle inspiration guide. I counted 27 projects in this book. All are practical and with easy (obvious) to follow instructions. Sample Trendy Fashion Project 1 How to Make a Fancy Ruffle Shirt (Upcycling a plain boring white t-shirt) Sample Trendy Fashion Project [...]
Valentine Heart Wreaths
Share Well-illustrated Tutorial To Make Rag Heart Wreaths as Valentines Gifts or Decoration By guest writer Lilana “Hello, Fine Art Craft Guild readers! I’m the “Lilly” in LOVD, Lilly Of the Valley Designs. I’m a hardly-at-home-stay-at-home wife and mom, retired rocket scientist, jewelry-maker, project seeker, and optimist do-gooder, and daily blogger at FeelLOVDeveryday. [...]
Make a Recycled Dryer Sheet Envelope
Share Great Idea: Make your own envelopes for keepsakes from used dryer sheets. Jennifer from Sunny Vanilla executed this creative idea that was the brainchild of Paula Spahr. Let me show you her works of art: How to Make Your Own Envelopes Step-by-Step Tutorial Just a few steps to success [...]
DIY ‘Porcelain Rose
Share Isn’t this an awesome glossy porcelain rose? However, it’s made from 13 old plastic spoons instead. Would you believe it?! Next time you have a party, save those plastic spoons! You’ve got roses to make… Find an excellent, step-by-step tutorial by Gail here, at the “Can’t Stop Making Things”-blog. :: [...]
How to Save Your Cosmetics
Share Pin It Save yourself hundreds of dollars with this handy eco-friendly cosmetics saver tip! Got some broken cosmetics ranging from compact blush, powder to eye shadow? No longer be sad; no need to throw it away. This photo explains exactly how you can recover it. In essence, what you’ll need is a few drops [...]
Designer Lamps from Recycled Drinking Straws
Share How novel. Recycle 3000 clear drinking straws, and you can make this wonderful lamp. According to designer Tim Fishlock, it takes 7 days to complete. Like it? Make your own? The Howto 1. Tim does not give us a clue as to how it’s made other than sharing that he interconnected all [...]
Tassels, Fun Handmade Home Accessories
Share : shabby chic tassels like these are handmade home accents that transform a house. This tassel is 100% recycled, and made of remnants of a sheer curtain & a shirt sleeve; a tiny bit of pre-used ribbon; and a broken bead spacer for the top. The white ribbon from which the tassel hangs [...]
Handmade Ruffle Rugs
Share : easy rug-making technique that even kids can do. This handmade DIY ruffle rug offers a great way to blow new life into the mountain of unused or outgrown t-shirts in your family’s (and your neighbors’) closets. Fabulous and colorful, they would make hip and fun floor mats for bedrooms and bathrooms. With colors [...]
Recycle Holiday Cards into Tags
Share Yes, the holidays are really over now that the three wise men are arriving (the 6th). So now is the perfect time to get the ship back into order and clear received holiday cards and gift packaging. Rather than tossing them away, reuse recycle as next year’s gift tags. Simple and fast. Get [...]
Gift Bags Made from Fabric
Share : DIY idea after my own heart: wonderful design, easy, colorful + environmentally sound, i.e. gift bags made from fabric by Toni from Design Dazzle. Pretty reusable Christmas wrapping. They look fabulous under the Christmas tree and can be used year after year. It takes less than 15 min to make one and when [...]
DIY Postcard Journal / Calendar
Share Pin It Need a new calendar for 2012? Don’t buy anything *. Make one yourself instead. Like how? Here’s an idea: perpetual postcard calendar / Asley from ‘Under the Sycamore’ showed this really sweet perpetual calendar / journal idea last week at designsponge.com, and I want to share it with you today, as it’s [...]
Christmas Tree Alternatives
Share Pin It It’s perfect if you don’t yet have a Christmas tree. There’s something far better: an adorable Christmas tree alternative that you can make on a dime, and that’ll be loved by Mother Nature and your kids alike. Materials for Alternative Christmas Trees There’s no limit to the materials you could use [...]
Finger Knitting Projects
Share Now that you’ve the finger knitting directions, let me give you some creative ideas on what projects to make using this fun knitting technique. Finger knitting usually results in smaller projects, offering a great way to use up bitty bits of left over yarn, to recycle and to make accent accessories. Here are [...]
Handmade Rugs
Share Most visitors to this blog have found our feature of this eco-green towel-recycling DIY bathroom mat. I’ve noticed however, that not everyone has good ‘bathroom mat treatment’ habits, so I thought to share a few tips with you today, to begin with, and then I’ll give you an overview of the various rugs I’ve [...]
Halloween Ghost Crafts
Share Pin It 7 projects. What’s Halloween without a spooky ghost? Must-have decorative Fall season displays have at least one or two ghosts hanging around, spooky or friendly. Kids consider both kind of ghosts to add to the family fun. Halloween Ghost Crafts to Entertain: These are all easy, fun & fast to [...]
Rug from Recycled Sweater
Share I have this thing for recycling cable sweaters. I’m sure you all seen this recycled wool sweater lamp, which I just adore. It just looks so warm and cosy. Now, here’s a DIY tutorial to make yourself a matching rug for that chair near the window. Direct recycling aka very-eco-green designer Diane Durkes pulled [...]
Glam Necklace for Cheap: Recycle yr Credit Card
Share I had a golden name necklace when I was about four years old. Did you too??!! (Am I giving my age away now??? Yes, it was long time ago.) ;Well, these old fashioned name necklaces are back. Big time!! How so? New York Celebrities are wearing these instead of the LA glam girls’ beaded [...]
Thanksgiving Dinner Place Cards
Share Let’s plan ahead. This Thanksgiving I would like to have a number of people over for dinner. As this is a bit daunting to me, I usually like to have all the small details, such as the artsy & crafty decorative elements as well as the main dish to be made well ahead of [...]
Back-to-School with Easy-to-Make Friendship Gifts
Share Time to celebrate going Back-to-School with flirty gifts that create smiles on the first day of school and help continue friendships. Fun Fashion Friendship Gifts that are Easy to Make Sure, there is the good-old classic friendship bracelet (click link to learn how to make it). But let’s go beyond the simple ‘threaded [...]
Hip Zipper Butterfly
Share A fun project to do with kids: We recycled an old zipper into a darling butterfly brooch. Step by Step Instructions on How to Make a Zipper Butterfly 1. Sniff through old cloths or recycled textile supplies to find a 22 cm long zipper. Pick a color you want, or if [...]
Funky Coat Hangers
Share These coat hangers caught my eye at Paris’ main Flee market. \While I personally have been designing crochet coat hangers, I was enamored by the thought of having these colorful wooden, felted and bead bejeweled coat hangers to cheer up my wardrobe. Which ones are your favorite? I love the [...]
Fabulous Glamorous Fabric Beads
Share Here’s the tutorial for this easy to make beads, these fabulous, glamorous beads are made with fabric strips wrapped around simple cotton balls. Stitch the fabric down and embellish with contrast-colored shiny glass seed beads in a free –form pattern. As simple as that. Don’t they look glorious? source photo & original design: Alma [...]
Burlap Messenger Bag
Share Summer markets, country fairs, flee markets & antique markets are ideal locations to pick up materials to make your own unique bags. This burlap messenger bag is made from a burlap farm animal feed sack, an old belt plus a scrap of off-white demin for lining. This feed sack was found in a US [...]
Cool Recycled Metal Fence
Share A fence like you’ve never seen before, have you?! You gotta go to Carrboro in NC to see this beauty. Artistic and practical. This particular fence does not come with a manual, however, there are however plenty of YouTube tutorials on fence making from which to borrow the design ideas needed to pull [...]
Suitcase Storage
Share Inspiring eye candy with lots of photos for you today. Calling all vintage (and just plain old) suitcases to come to work as storage. Didn’t we all have an old suitcase as coffee table in college? I know I did. There are however more ideas. What’s best about suitcases is that they come in [...]
Succulents Shine in Recycled Shoe
Share Great summer craft for kids: make your own succulent garden in that worn pair of shoes that has been the favorite for soooo long and that is just still too ‘precious’ to throw away. Have a pair of those, with soles all worn out and/or now cramping your toes? Perfect. Let’s recycle (upcycle) it!! [...]
Kids Hat Crochet Pattern
Share Easy to make, lovely to wear. This hat will sure bring on a mood of frivolous vacation. You can crochet this hat in less than a day and it will make a great gift to your son for protection from the sun. :: Skill Level = Easy :: It’s also a craft kids can [...]
