Back-to-School Notice Boards

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A Beautiful DIY back to school craft: Desirée, mom of three, and writer of ‘The 36th Avenue’ designed these Personalized Back-to-School Notice Boards for each of her kids,   The boards come with more features than I think I can remember: 0. Beautiful hand-painted and hand-embellished scrapbooked notice boards, made together with the kids 1. [...]

Back-to-School Pleated Skirt

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Love this skirt: So Fall, so girly, so back-to-school. Best of all: easy to make, while sophisticated. Enjoy this free sewing pattern and step-by-step instructions which you can find here at sewmamasew.com  

Back-to-School Noticeboards Schedulers Organizers Desk Accessories

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I haven’t gone back to school for a ‘000 years. However, every Fall I still enjoy that feeling of a fresh start. Lovely.  One of my best memories is how I used to get very nice new book wrapping paper, calendar and others kids desk accessories and stationary. We would making matching schedulers and organizers, [...]

Back-to-School College, Teenage & Kid Bedroom Decorating

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This article on ‘College, Teenage & Kid Bedroom Decorating Projects & Ideas’  finishes the ‘Back-to-school Ideas’- week, however, during September we’ll add a few more individual back-to-school ideas, as they pop up in our minds.   College Room, Teenage + Kid Bedroom Ideas Child Bedroom Furniture Stencil Plan This article contains free templates and a [...]

Back-to-school Small Bag Patterns

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Back to school is this great ‘season’ to get back organized, not only in aspects of school life, but also in other areas.  For this reason, to me, Fall is one of those time that it’s extremely useful to create a bunch of new bags, of different shapes and sizes in matching fabrics so that [...]

Back-to-School Backpacks, Tote Bags, Lunch Bags Sewing Patterns

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School bags are one of the most essential school supplies out there. And from personal experience as someone who studied for many years, it is a really good investment to have a couple of different style bags laying around: one for light days, one for heavy book days, one for gym, one for personal items, [...]

Back-to-School with Easy-to-Make Friendship Gifts

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. But let’s go beyond the simple ‘threaded thingy’, and help your (kids) friends be in style [...]

Back-to-School Ideas

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Back-to-School time is now!  Would you believe that in Italy, kids have a FULL THREE MONTHS of summer vacation?!! They will only go back to school mid- September? For those of you, who are starting earlier than that, here’s an overview of our Back-to-School projects and tips to date.   Back to School Sales & [...]

DIY Personalized Bookmarks w Beads & Jewels

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Step-by-Step Instructions 1. Collect materials: string, or strip of leather, or yarn or jewerly wire coverd in fabric,….. ~ or equivalent.. + pretty beads + tools to attach beads. 2. String them together, creating a long beaded jewel for the book bottom end, and a tiny beaded end-jewel to be topping out of the closed [...]

Invisible Bookshelves DIY

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Eco green, super cool, back-to-school, and simple-to-do, inexpensive kid room decoration. These invisible bookshelves meets all criteria.       Materials Needed A book (that you don’t mind never reading again) A good-sized L-bracket Couple of flat-head screws Ruler & pen Glue Stack of Books (high enough to cover your bracket)   How to Make [...]