Art & Craft Ideas, How to Tutorials, Handmade Gift
Ohhh, yummm… ! Tell me a man who doesn’t like cinnamon rolls? You might like them also. Look at all these cinnamon rolls in heart shapes, enticing you to make them as these sweet mini-cakes make great ‘lovers breakfast’ for Valentines Day. Favorite cinnamon rolls made into a heart-shape form. Heart [...]
: Handmade Valentines Gifts are Best. This shirt folding board is a paper decoupage project I made years ago that I thought would make a fun scrapbooking Valentines gift for a person who has lots of shirts to fold … Like your dad, your husband, your papa?? And that is to make him [...]
Womething cool. So simple, even your 2-year-old can do it. Toilet Paper Roll Stamp Art! Toilet paper rolls make instant stamps. Besides stamping the obvious circle, it’s easy to fill each circle with hearts and flower stamps. Pretty!! Make your own Valentines Day card, Mothers day card, fathers day card, get-well card…. Fun and fast [...]
: Shutter-love! Fancy owning this recycled shutter cum magazine rack. I want to own one. Teal / aqua/ Robin egg blue happen to be my favorite paint color range, so this shutter caught my eye. As an aside: aqua always makes me feel like I’m on a tropical island. Love that color, particularly [...]
Let’s prep today for St. Patricks Day, and share that luck of the Irish, from now till then. When is St. Patricks Day? March 17 St Patricks Day :: 2 Free Phone Backgrounds for You I found a four-leaf clover for you, and am sharing it with you as a [...]
Click here for THE LATEST PARTY!!, or check out the Best Featured Creative Projects from this prior party below. Great DIY Tutorials * Beautiful, Creative Ideas Check out these great entries to our third ‘Time for a Party’ creative eye-candy feast. Before adding your lastest and greatest, check out first some of the best [...]
: this great freebie! I have the ultimate toys for bad-weather days and dreaming with your kids of going on vacation in …. Paris!! These travel-sized paper landmark buildings allow you to enact the most wonderful vacation adventures in Paris. Free!! And you don’t even need to pack! The printable paper city play set comes [...]
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 it [...]
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 2 [...]
THAT LOVING HEART: 15 free darling heart designs to embellish just about anything. Enlarge them: to create a wall-decal/ furniture print stencil or bleach-dye them on t-shirts (gifts or keep). Keep ‘m small: to print in red and adorn that Valentine Card; to create loving embroidery patterns; or make into stamps. Or make a darling [...]
We all must learn to grow vegetables. Whether we live in a small apartment without a balcony, a unit with just a small patio, or a luxury house with lots of land. Don’t you think? Growing veggies is easy & fun, once you know how, particularly with the ingenious plastic bottle vertical gardening system I’m [...]
Oh, and the things you can do … with beads. And I’m referring to those beads that are iron-able and shape-able into pretty much any thing you fancy, called perler beads. Creations Made with Perle Beads After you’ve made Zhu zhu pet food from [...]
Want to be sweet to your loved one for breakfast on Valentines Day? How about whisking up easy love gateaux, aka instant breakfast bars ? Love it. Serve up a sophisticated slice sprinkled with some icing sugar or candied hearts for breakfast and cut up a few take-away bars for mid-morning coffee. Filled with goodies [...]
Last week, we stopped by this fun and funky antique store in Trastevere, a favorite downtown area in Rome. This antique shop is a rare breed. It reminds of American lifestyle fashion furniture stores which also sell (vintage) Oriental furniture. Such shop is a rare find in Rome. What makes this shop more special is [...]
‘Soul Smile’ ‘Laugh with your eyes, hug with your soul, and smile with your heart’ (Anonymous quote) Wow. Powerful quote on canvas art. Paper art creation. Scrapbooking collage on canvas. Below is my favorite Pinterest pin today. Inspirational? Love the colors, style and sincerity statement. Comes with a very detailed tutorial. [...]
Mercury glass is so popular right this minute and I’m fully supporting this trend. I love its shabby chic look, and how you can transform plain glass object, from vase to goblet, into a magnificent vintage silver mirrored home accent. Eg. Look what I picked up : two darling glass candle holders. Add this magic [...]
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. :: Tip [...]
Lets make a topiary. I will show you how. It is winter and not much creative gardening going on besides making winter veggies and protecting whatever you planted from frost. It is however a time that in Italy, the olive farmers clip their olive trees again, and loads of free branches are to be had. [...]
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 art, [...]
Love this pop-up card. Classy, simple. Love the color ~ not pink for a change, with a universal message that any lover will understand. Perfect. Best of all, it comes with a free template. You will need some precision scissors however to cut this perfectly, but if you do, you’ll have a stunning and [...]
Let’s celebrate the best of you. At least once a week, shall we. A NEW LINK PARTY !! Because today is CHINESE NEW YEAR: Happy new year of the dragon, which will be a year of lots of action !!!! (My free Chinese New Year Greeting Card, to print or as eCard). Because it’s new [...]
2012 comes with a commitment to myself it to live more soulfully and to reflect that on the blog. So, out with the paraffin candles and in with the soy candles. Let’s make some candles! Here’s the howto. Soy Wax Candle Making Supplies Needed soy wax flakes (European readers / I get it [...]
Today, NO new tutorial. Instead, we protest over the SOPA and PIPA bills that are before the US House and Senate. We unite with many sites who are taking their entire site down for a day. SOPA/PIPA = prohibitive for bloggers like you and I. If you want continued creative finds from around the web [...]
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 of [...]
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 straws [...]
Now that all your holiday decoration is gone, does the front door look a bit barren? Not for long, because here’s an idea for you that you wished you’d tried before: year-round colorful succulent wreaths that need next-to-no-attention to good looking. Best of all, the plants on these wreaths are alive! Like a garden [...]
Chinese New Year will be really early this year, January 23. To celebrate with your Chinese friends, I’ve designed you again a Chinese New Year card. As a gift. This year will the year of the Water Dragon. Meaning of the Chinese Dragon The symbol of the mythical Chinese dragon stands [...]
January 2012 Here is the scrapbooked January page in my personalized CD Jewel Case Calendar. Like it? So easy, so fast, so fun. How-to: Calendar Page: Recycle a cereal box; cut to CD-case size. Glue on wrapping paper remnants. Glue on printed calendar month. Embellish with (very old) recycled foam flower. CD Jewel-Case [...]
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 it [...]
: this fun and easy way to spruce up plain white mugs and to personalize them with the kids (or your) favorite animals and designs. Stencil your way to the farm …. Country Living offers free stencils to download of cows, sheep and pigs.
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