Craft Book Review: Graffiti Jeans from This Belongs to Me
Because who cares if it came from Goodwill if it’s got your own personal dragon logo painted on the pocket?
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3 Ways to Repair Embellished Clothing
Repairing clothes with embellishments on them sometimes requires a bit of finesse. Here are three methods to repair embellished clothing, so it looks good as new!
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How to Make a Brown Paper Bag Sash
Be Miss America. Be a Lookout, complete with Basilisk Slayer badge. Be the Ambassador from China.
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Repair Your Headphones: 10 DIY Fixes
Most of the most common breaks in headphones are easy-ish to repair. Here are some ways to repair your headphones that will have them back on your head by tomorrow
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How to Make Prayer Beads from Recycled Materials
Have you ever made a Rosary out of roses? Pope Francis’ visit to the US is a perfect time to have some faith and learn how to make prayer beads!
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Make Dyed Popsicle Stick Bracelets with Kook-Aid!
These popsicle stick bracelets are a Kool-Aid craft. They’re a popsicle stick craft. They’re a totally COOL craft.
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20 DIY Backpack Tutorials for Back to School
School will be in session before we know it! Create your own (or your child’s) backpack this year with these amazing DIY backpack tutorials.
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10 Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Rainbow Loom
I can’t completely dislike anything that gets my kids creating, but there are SO many eco-friendly Rainbow Loom alternatives.
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How to Organize Jewelry with a Vintage Drawer
Need some DIY storage ideas for your jewelry? Here’s how to organize jewelry with a common yard sale find.
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Label ALL THE THINGS! DIY Eco-Friendly Labels for Everything
It IS possible to DIY eco-friendly labels for all your stuff.
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Embossed Aluminum Pendants: An Upcycled Kid Craft
If you’ve got kids (or a Scout troop, or a day camp…) who love making jewelry, then they’ll love making these embossed aluminum pendants.
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27 Dried Flower Crafts
“This bouquet is so beautiful!” you said. “I’m going to dry all these flowers!” you said!
Awesome!
… Now what?
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Make a DIY Camera Lens Cap Leash
A lens cap leash is nice if you’ve got a wandering lens cap, like I do, but it’s also extremely handy for keeping track of your lens cap for you while you’re busy shooting photos.
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30 Awesome DIY Jewelry Organizer Projects!
Is your jewelry out of control? Get it all together with these 30 DIY jewelry organizer projects!
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How to Make Rosettes from a Reclaimed Tee
Don’t you love the look of a rosette? These simple fabric flowers are very cute, and they’re actually simple to make with just an old t-shirt from your stash. Here’s how to make rosettes and use them in your crafting.
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50 DIY Jewelry Projects from Recycled Materials
Add DIY jewelry to your wardrobe with recycled materials! Here are 50 projects and tutorials that you’ll love!
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DIY Fashion: Make Your Own Belt Bracelet
Skip the impact of buying new– create your own DIY fashion like this stylish belt bracelet!
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DIY Fashion: Make Your Own Vintage Button Brooch
Make your own unique brooch with recycled felt and vintage buttons!
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How-to: DIY Custom Flower Brooch from Fabric Scraps
When you’re mixing up a lot of colors in your outfit, sometimes you need just the right accessory to pull it all together. Think of this custom flower brooch as The Dude’s rug…
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How To: Teacup and Spoon Jewelry Holder
As you know from How To: Spruce Up an Old Jewelry Box, I love unique jewelry storage. This week I noticed my rings were getting out of hand, so I came up with a way to keep them organized and on display!
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How To: Make Wine Cork Earrings
Remember when I told you that I had a huge bag of wine corks in the Wine Corks to Wall Art tutorial? Well, inspiration struck again and I decided to create wine cork earrings!
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5 DIY Hair Accessories from Recycled Materials
Add a little cheery springtime color to your ‘do with some recycled DIY hair accessories!
How To: Make a No Sew Sunglasses Case
I’ve admired Becky’s Burlap Sunglasses Case for quite some time now, but I have no sewing skills at all. My solution? Create a no sew sunglasses case with my handy-dandy hot glue gun!
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How-to: Reverse-Stencil Neon Hair Clip from Fabric Scraps
Neon is super hot right now, but if you’re working with reclaimed fabrics it can be hard to track down that vibrant goodness. Fabric paint to the rescue! When you’re choosing fabric paint for your neon hair clip, look for something that’s water-based and non-toxic.
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How To: Turn a Vintage Earring into an Unique Hair Pin
Give your earrings, brooches, or buttons new life by transforming them into a unique hair pin!
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How-to: Upcycled Toy Charm Necklaces–They’re Toys You Can Wear!
These toy charms can be worn on a necklace or bracelet, one at a time or in a whole herd. They make fine jewelry on their own, but the secret trick to these little charms is the latch that allows you to release them from their jewelry status. In the blink of an eye, you’ve gone from having a necklace full of toy dinosaurs to a handful of toy dinosaurs, ready to make standing in line at the grocery store SO much more bearable.
Here’s how to make your own.
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How-to: Make a Kid Crown from Recycled Felt
Dress up your little prince or princess in a handmade kid crown!
How-to: A Hoop Skirt Made from Wire Hangers
Using nothing but wire hangers, hot glue, and duct tape, I created a hoop skirt. Here’s how:
How-to: Kid-Made Recycled Cardboard Pendants
Kids love to make their own jewelry, and these pendants, crafted from upcycled cardboard, are especially fun to create and wear. The pendants cost no money, slip easily inside a letter to a pen pal, and, if the kid gets tired of wearing them, can be tossed right back into the recycling bin.
10 Upcycled Plastic Grocery Bag Crafts
Got a stash of plastic bags that you can’t bear to toss? Try some of these plastic grocery bag crafts to give them a new life instead!
5 DIY Scarves for Fall
Fall is here and the cooler weather has arrived! My favorite accessory for cool weather is a scarf. After finding tons of tutorials for scarves, I decided to put together 5 of my favorite DIY scarves!
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Project Show and Tell: A DIY Child’s Witch Hat Made from Recycled Newspaper and Cardboard
See how proud that kiddo looks? She and I made that witch’s hat, the exactly perfect Halloween costume accessory, out of recycled newspaper and cardboard (and a lot of tape!). Considering that everything except for the tape and paint came from our recycling bin, and that this is EXACTLY the tall, polka-dotted hat that she had wanted, I’m declaring it a Halloween win.
How-to: Make a Reusable (Not Disposable!) Kid’s Name Tag for School Field Trips
Kid going on a field trip? Generally gotta have a name tag.
Instead of buying disposable name tags, my kiddos and I make reusable name tags. These name tags can be made almost entirely by a kid with just a little adult help, and can be used until any of the information changes–if a kid made one of these in kindergarten, and used it until she headed off for middle school, that’s probably worth an entire package of disposable name tag stickers right there, and if the whole class did it, that’s a good effort towards helping a school go green.
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5 Easy Upcycled Accessories
Luckily, you don’t have to go shopping to beef up your accessories collection! Here are a few DIY accessories that you can make from reclaimed materials instead.
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Reader Question Answered: Reusing Cardboard for Kid-Friendly Crafts
Cardboard is a terrific material to reuse for kids’ crafts because it’s so sturdy, and it’s amenable to a wide variety of media, from duct tape to spray paint.
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