How-to: Build a Bat House in Your Backyard
Bothered by mosquitoes? Build a bat house for your backyard, and solve your mosquito problem and a bat’s housing problem all at the same time.
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DIY Home + Garden
How-to: Stencil on Vinyl Record Albums to Create a Custom Upcycled Sign
If you have old vinyl record albums that no longer play, upcycle them into a stenciled sign to decorate your music room.
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Ten Tag Sale Tips
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as they say. Tag sales are great places to hunt for treasure (and recycle trash). But do you know how to maximize your time, hunting for treasure on a Saturday?
It’s Flea Market Season
It’s flea market season, what will you be hunting for?
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Simple Projects You Can Do This Weekend
Fun projects that you can make this weekend.
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It’s National Remodeling Month
May is National Home Remodeling Month, will your remodel be green?
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Recycled Craft Room Decorating Ideas
We’re building an addition on our house, and when it’s all finished up, I’m going to have my very own craft room. Right now, my husband and I are sharing the front office of our house, but soon he’s going to move his music and writing stuff into his own office, and I am planning to totally redo the room to make it a crafty sanctuary.
Of course, no craft room would be complete without some good storage and organizing solutions! Here are some of the recycled ways I’m hoping to deck out my new studio.
Use Junk and Trash to Help Make Your Garden Grow
SImple junk or trash items can be transformed to help your garden grown.
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Soy-Gel: A Must Have for Furniture Refinishing
Have furniture to refinish? Try soy-gel.
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Gardeners: Save Those Easter Egg Cartons and Egg Shells
Save your easter egg cartons and your eggshells. They’re handy to have for a garden.
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Searching for Eco Garden Art and Inspiration
Looking for eco garden inspiration
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How-to: Upcycle a Mesh Produce Bag into a Nesting Materials Buffet for Birds
Treat your neighborhood birds to a buffet of nesting materials with just a plastic mesh produce bag and some natural or recycled supplies.
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DIY Eco-Friendly Bath Remodeling Part 3
The final installment of my DIY bathroom ordeal.
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DIY Eco-Friendly Bath Remodeling Part 2
Part 2 of my DIY bathroom experience.
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Five Pitfalls of Going DIY for Large Renovation Projects
Five downfalls to going DIY on a larger renovation project.
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DIY Eco-Friendly Bath Remodeling Part 1
The ups and downs of trying to do an eco friendly bathroom remodel.
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Where Did the Eco Go?
Not long ago local store shelves were filled with green products, now they’re nowhere to be found. What happened?
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How to Upcycle an Old Globe into a Chalkboard Globe
Upcycle a beat-up, inaccurate old globe into a useful and artistic write-on chalkboard globe.
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How-to: DIY Texture Paint Over Paneling
Need to give your walls a makeover? Here’s a way to save your walls and give them a great new look.
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The Finished Objects Dilemma
We appraised our situation like the mature adults we are. It was determined, with my full agreement, that I was making too much stuff, and that I needed to figure out what to do with this stuff when it’s complete. Something better than “I’ll just set that right here for now” and then leaving it to get buried by piles of mail and library books.
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The DIY Garden: Upcycled Inspiration for Spring
When the chilly, dark days of winter get you down, some springtime crafty eye candy is the perfect pick me up!
Fab Fabrics: Vintage Doilies and Projects to Get You Started
Your first mental image when I mention doilies is probably of a stuffy old home, where those lacy mats adorn the table tops, but doilies definitely have a place in modern crafting, too.
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DIY Bookcase Makeovers
While looking for DIY bookcase makeover inspiration- I came across these ideas.
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Interesting Eco Projects
Interesting new eco projects from around the web.
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Crafty in the Kitchen: Homemade Granola
Make your own healthy, natural, and delicious homemade granola–it’s easy!
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DIY Wine and Vineyard Themed Wedding Ideas
Ideas for DIY wine theme wedding decor and accessories.
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Eco and DIY Garden Theme Wedding Ideas
DIY ideas for a garden or rustic DIY wedding.
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How to Make Laundry Soap for Three Cents a Load
Have you been wanting to make your own green cleaning supplies? Here’s how to make laundry soap that’s eco-friendly and only costs three cents a load!
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Early Eco Spring Cleaning with a Side of Craftiness
Eco crafty ways to approach spring cleaning this year.
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4 Recycled Cat Crafts to Spoil Your Fur Kid
I love my two cats! There’s really no other way to say it. Those little fluffballs always seem to be doing something cute, and it’s hard to resist the urge to shower them with toys and treats! Do you like to spoil your kitties? Here are some eco-friendly ideas for toys and treats!
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5 Handmade Gifts for Cooks
Need handmade gifts for cooks on your holiday list? Create these five crafty kitchen ingredients to give any cook this holiday season.
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Four Recycled Craft Projects to Spoil Your Dog
We talked last week about recycled craft projects to spoil your kitty, and I don’t want you dog owners to feel left out! Here’s a roundup of fun, eco-friendly ways to spoil that pup rotten!
5 Draft Dodger Tutorials to Save You Energy this Winter
Save energy and have fun while crafting up a draft dodger to keep the warm air inside your house this winter.
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Make An Expandable File Folder from a Cereal Box
Cameron Blazer from the Cottage Industrialist has created a wonderful tutorial for creating a simple DIY expandable file folder from a cereal box and some other crafty bits.
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Getting Crafty in the Kitchen: Homemade Tea Blends
Does the chilly weather get you craving hot beverages? Sure, you could pick up a box of store-bought tea, but wouldn’t it be more fun to mix up your own creations? Here are some tea recipes to get you going! If you’re feeling super crafty, you could even brew them up in homemade tea bags.
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