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 [...]
Italian Farmhouse Kitchen Table (Pinterest Fave)
Share Not fair that Pinterest followers were getting my best design ideas, instead of my loyal blog readers. Being Chinese New Year, I’m changing it now, and during the coming year, I’ll add a Daily Pinterest Favorite to my blog. I’ll feature a mix of interior design styles, home decorating DIY projects, knititng, crochet, paper [...]
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 [...]
DIY Bedroom Bench
Share A winning tutorial: easy, fast and gorgeous. Pin It Some bloggers are amazing, and this is one of them: Carry from ‘Two Friends, Two Cities’. She created this lovely bench from start –to – finish in just 2 hours for the tiny budget of $65. I actually just bought this exact same bold marine [...]
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 [...]
Upholstered Headboards: Make Your Own
Share Comfortable bed headboards are easy to make and transform ordinary bedroom furniture. Actually good bed headboards have to follow certain design criteria: 1. Decorative items on (or above) the headboard should not be able to fall onto my head. 2. It should be high enough to support my back when having breakfast in [...]
Build Your Own Birdhouse
Share This adorable birdhouse is the culmination of a few different craft techniques: creating floral wall art from toilet paper rolls, making a beaded accent charm, and painting, stenciling and decorating a birdhouse. What makes this wall decoration work is repetition of color, shape and pattern. The How-to How to Make [...]
Pallets Around the House
Share You might have recently seen this article with furniture made with pallets whereby we showcase a few indoor ideas on how to use pallets for furniture. And you might have seen Tiffany’s pallet chair \ bench? As the weather is improving, we all want to play outside. What better way than to [...]
Crafty April Fools Day Prank
Share Create a coffee mess and get away with it. Only this one day…!!! This is an excellent video tutorial on how to be a Pro coffee-spill-trickster this April Fools day. You get to fool people the whole day, easily. Even if you are not so ‘into these things’, prepping for this one is kind [...]
Recycled Pallet Furniture
Share Tons of pallets are being used, abused and thus discarded, all the time. Great opportunity of us, reclaimers, upcyclers and creative misfits to transform these bastards into glorious work of artsy home decoration. Pallets are major recycling opportunities. Here are three easy but oh-so-functional DIY projects that stand out: 1= RECYCLED PALLET [...]
Native American Art Residence :: Call for Artists
Share I get a lot of artist opportunities in my mailbox, but only from time to time share them with you all on the blog. This is a unique opportunity to reside on a Haida North American reservation, to be inspired by this great and ancient culture and to contribute to the local community there [...]
Decorate with Recycled Ladders
Share Ladders add a rustic country atmosphere to a home, and can be used indoor or outdoor for decoration. This project goes into my ‘one day’ pile of things to do, but my step one was to collect ‘best of’ recycled ladder decoration ideas. Ladders offer great interim storage solutions: quick and easy places to [...]
How To Decoupage Wooden Bangle Bracelets
Share To me this is a great summer craft: making decoupage wooden* bangle bracelets. It’s so easy & fun, and your decoupaged bangles will be ready to wear within a few hours. * Note: I am talking about wooden bangles here. However, let’s use that term liberally. You could use use plastic, paper or [...]
Back to School Bulletin Board Ideas
Share It’s that time of the year… Time to get our minds around ‘Back-to-School’. I came across two really nice Bulletin Board Ideas. The first one, a crossword puzzle board, is for a classroom, where new kids will meet each other and meet with a new teacher.Isn’t this a fun, fun, fun way to [...]
Art Handbags
Share Coach, Prada or Michael Kors or all other designer tote or handbags: the whole fashion world produces ruffles. Like it or not. Ruffles are HERE! Time for a change?? Yes it is. Personally, I’ve seen enough ruffles for a week or two, and I want to show you today on our Tote Bag Monday [...]
Adirondack Chair Plans
Share You can find them in fun beach resorts, fisher man villages, both romantic and nautical-themed B & B’s They’re so comfy and so beautiful….: Adirondack chairs! Want one? How about making them yourself for your own patio or elsewhere, outdoors ? Adirondack Chairs are durable. This is why grandma still has hers… [...]
Beach Chair
To me, the beach chair we’re featuring today as a DIY project, says ‘vacation’, ‘relaxation’, ‘joy’, and ‘fresh air’ besides shouting ‘BEACHHHH!!!’
Best DIY & Craft Tutorials
Share I thought to feature my top 10 entries so far in the Fine Craft Guild DIY Craft Tutorial Linky Parties (Craft Party #1, Craft Party #2 and Craft Party #3* 10 Top DIY Craft Tutorials I thought to showcase for you my top 10 favorite DIY & craft tutorials that have been entered [...]
Unusual Upcycled Kitchen Storage 2
Remember that I showed you this unusual storage cabinet last Friday as an inspiration for you to bypass your conventional notion of what ‘matches’ and what doesn’t?
I promised that I would come back with some extra unusual kitchen storage ideas, that would help you to do away with even more traditional design rules and notions of what constitute proper storage…..
An Upcycler’s Take on Kitchen Storage
Share “matching redefined” Embarking on a project to make or find some unusual upcycled kitchen storage? Introducing Rupert Blanchard, woodworker in London. Really, he is a designer and craftsman with internationally inspiring taste,and here’s an example of (unfinished but already great) work by him: a completely recycled kitchen. Unusual Upcycled Kitchen Storage You [...]
