Design Your Own T-shirt a la Anthropologie
Here is a free tutorial on ‘how to design your own t-shirt with tulle flower embellishments’ to create that wizzidiwow Anthropologie-look for a budget that suits you.
This tutorial shows that nowadays fashion is about your own creativity rather than ‘some designer’s. And to make this embellished t-shirt does not take much more than a [...]
Ideas for Easter Decorations
Get a head start this year. Easter is around the corner. Making this a fun-filled holiday means getting prepared early enough so that you can actually enjoy all those preparations and craft projects that invariably come along with Easter brunches, Easter egg hunts and other Easter parties.
Here are some of the projects we featured last [...]
How To Organize The Laundry Room – The Bathroom Design ‘After’-shots
It’s interesting that I call this article ‘Laundry Room Design’ as frankly it is a ‘how to hide the fact that this is a laundry room as well as a bathroom’?’ article. The objective of this project has been to keep all laundry elements handy, however out of sight.
I thought I could get myself to [...]
Free Ruffle Dress Pattern
I guess, all of a sudden, we have Fashion 2010 on FineCraftGuild. We did not plan to write more about fashion, but it so happens because fashion designers have been inspiring us.
Maybe because I want to wear ruffle-y things this year. Never mind the ‘how come’? Here’s the how: a free dress sewing pattern for [...]
How to Refashion Clothing to Make Skirts: Shirt Skirt
Popular last year and still on the runway for Louis Vuitton 2010, shirt skirt is a stayer. A Louis Vuitton-label sewn on at the inside will cost you a tat, however, you could easily refashion your own clothing to make shirt skirts. Fashion Indie gives the run-down on how to do it.
HOW TO MAKE [...]
Craft Calendars 2010
It’s January 1. Time for a new calendar.
While I’m all for recycling old calendars and creating your own calendar (In fact, I have an article on how to make your own desk calendar, and will soon post some new scrapbooking page layouts for this calendar), I could not help it but just needed to whiz [...]
How to Make a Zafu Meditation Pillow
Want to meditate and do more yoga in the new year? Learn how easy (and inexpensive) it is to make your own props, and get started!!, Just follow the easy-to-follow illustrated instructions here at http://www.FineCraftGuild.com. OM!!!!
A zafu is a cushion that is specially designed for seated meditation. Most of us simply call [...]
How to Make a Silk Eye Pillow
Silk yoga eye pillows offer a delightful retreat from the pressures of modern life. They give eyes a rest –full spa treatment: An eye pillow offers complete darkness. It’s gentle weight on the eyes provide relaxing pressure.
If you make an eye pillow for yourself, you can use it to take a break, doze [...]
Anthropologie-Inspired Tuxedo Scarf Tutorial
This is just a quick article to give you a heads up:
Here’s a tutorial for an amazingly good looking scarf that indeed looks like you would have just picked it up from Anthrolopologie!
Your free craft tutorial and sewing pattern is here at CraftyHabit.
A moderately experienced seamstress would put this scarf together in less [...]
Top 5 Barbie Dresses & Accessories
Lovely Barbie dresses? Affordable ones??
Look no further. Let the dress up games begin. You can now create your own Barbie. I searched and searched and found these 5 to be the best dress patterns ever.
Complete with free, illustrated tutorials and enticing pictures.
Best Barbie Party Dress – Free Pattern 1
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Handmade Hair band with Glitter Beads
These hair bands make suitable Christmas presents for quite a wide age group, from todds to girls to teens, tweens and moms. As I needed two gifts, I have two different ones to show here. Aren’t they pretty?
They are superfast to make if you have a sewing machine, however, they can easily be [...]
Free, Handmade Christmas Presents from Recycled Materials
My state: REALLY INSPIRED. I just read this story about this young man who actually tried living without money. Inspired, however, I can’t just pack up and live in a caravan, completely without money (nor do I want to).
(photo: Benjamin Earwicker)
When I finished my economics degree, I equally came away with the realization that [...]
