:: Splendid entryway organizing idea : mess and clutter control at the kitchen back door mats made with pebbles :: Spring is usually wet and rainy. We all know how wet boots make water stains. And how water stains are a nightmare to get rid of. No worries no more. If you haven’t made yourself [...]
Creativity with a mission. While the creative process may feel good to us, it can also be useful to others. Crochet Plastic Sleeping Bag Design These plastic crochet sleeping mats for the homeless are a project by humanitarian and environmentally concerned Dawn Warmbold from Arkansas that has warmed many hearts and bodies already. Dawn has [...]
Can you imagine this gorgeous suzani rug being a DIY IKEA hack? Me neither. Yes, it’s a bit advanced, but 2013 we can handle a bit more advanced projects, can’t we? I have about a dozen of unique articles on this blog on ‘how to make your own rugs’. These are easy rugs. Click link [...]
Featuring a reader’s work today. Miranda here took the original featured eco-friendly bath rug project into another direction by changing colors row by row, working in around the edges inwards, rather than taking the project row by row, and so created a perfect kitchen rug design. This is the result. I think [...]
Can’t really knit nor crochet? Then this is YOUR kind of ‘crochet’ rug. In pastels this might be a baby room rug or a bathroom rug. But in bold bright reds, this certainly is the kind of rug to cozy up at in front of the fireplace. And in tiny blue-white balls or even sisal [...]
Ok.I’ve done dressers for boys rooms. Lots of kids furniture ideas for their bedrooms & playrooms. But what if your girls are teens? OK. Here’s your inspiration for the year. This teen girl attic cum bedroom makeover will blow you away. Probably. I am showing you the ‘before’ picture first…. They went from this barren [...]
On a $25 budget, who wouldn’t like to get this wonderful bohemian (or is it chic) faux zebra rug? I love animals and would not hurt them, but second hand fur is fair game for me, as is this fabulous faux zebra rug. OK. Let’s all make a faux zebra rug! Yeah.. Here’s my [...]
I asked a friend what she thought were the best craft & DIY projects we posted at FineCraftGuild.com in 2012. This is what she came up with. Valentine Pop-up Greeting Cards. How to Make Succulent Wreaths. Cupcakes with Hydrangea Flower Frosting. 5 Last Minute Easter Ideas (incl. this delicious angel food cake [...]
Keep wet boots and shoes from making a mess, and protect your flooring with homemade recycled cork floor mats. Cool, heh?! Now that the weather definitely has become WET, many of us are scouring around for rugs and solutions for wet boots and snow shoes near the front door. Here’s a way to make that [...]
My forecast for 2013 is that weaving will be the next hip thing. Amongst some Avant-garde designers* and recyclists it has already began. Next will be Anthropologie and friends, and then the you and I. How to Weave? image credit, woven table rugs: http://sodapop-design.de/2011/01/diy-untersetzer/ (website in German language) Today might as well be ‘wordless’, [...]
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