Christmas Cleanup: 5 Things to Save for Your Craft Stash
here are five Christmas leftovers that you can now use to craft your way through 2015.
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Tools + Supplies
Spotted: Cross Stitch Cookie Tin, and 10 other Altered Containers
Check out these altered container projects.
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Is Balsa Wood Eco-Friendly?
Balsa wood is a pretty genius crafting supply. But is it good for the planet? The answer is complicated.
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Easiest Holiday Ornament Ever: Cinnamon Gingerbread People
Are you ready to make the easiest holiday ornament EVER?! You need two ingredients – cinnamon and apple sauce – to fill your house with holiday spirit.
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DIY Holiday Gifts for Everyone on Your List
Are you working on your list of gifts for this year? Check out these resources with DIY holiday gifts you can make for everyone on your list.
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Spotted: How to Make Patches with Crochet
There are lots of tutorials for how to make patches, but I’m loving this crochet method that turns a simple repair into a cute new detail.
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20 DIY Drawer Projects
There are so many great things that you can make with old drawers!
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My Antique Drawer Craft Storage System
An organized, tidy craft storage system is the difference between a person who is uncommonly artistic and crafty and a person who is basically an extreme hoarder in need of a televised intervention.
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30 Glass Bottle Crafts
Glass bottles, whether they held your spaghetti sauce yesterday (here’s how to get the label off) or a Coca-Cola fifty years ago (here’s how to make it look shiny and new!), make excellent craft supplies
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15 Ways to Reuse Tea Bags
Are you a tea-drinker like I am? Next time you finish off a mug, save that spent tea bag! Here are 15 fun ways to reuse tea bags instead of throwing them in the trash.
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Make a No-Sew Hood from a Babywearing Wrap
You don’t need a sewing machine to turn your kid into a vampire, assassin, young Jedi, ranger, or any other hooded creatures this Halloween. All you need is a wrap used for babywearing, and you’ll have this no-sew hood configured in no time.
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Tools to Use: Wood Burner (Plus Six Projects to Use it on!)
Want a totally eco-friendly way to modify wood, or cork, or leather without paint, without dye, without glue?
Dude, get yourself a wood burner!
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Spotted: Homemade Chalk Paint Showdown
Have you been wanting to make some homemade chalk paint but weren’t sure which recipe is the best? Denise at Salvaged Inspirations tried a bunch of recipes, so you don’t have to.
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Are there toxic chemicals in your craft supplies?
We love green craft supplies around here, and we talk about how to find green craft supplies quite a bit. What we don’t often dive into are the toxic chemicals you’re avoiding when you choose natural craft supplies. Here are seven common toxic chemicals that might be lurking in your crafty stash.
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How to Make Buttons out of Anything with Sugru
Sometimes you want to make a button but you only have, say, a toy dinosaur. Here’s how to make buttons out of basically anything you want.
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7 Kids Room Ideas: DIY Decor for Kids
Decorating a child’s room doesn’t have to use a lot of money and create a lot of waste. Try some of these kids room ideas instead!
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Homemade Puffy Paint Takes Only 3 Ingredients
Need some puffy paint for your paper crafting but don’t want to spring for the possibly toxic store-bought stuff? Make your own at home!
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12 Beer Can Crafts for After Labor Day
Feeling a little guilty as you gaze at that post-Labor Day recycle bin? Try some of these beer can crafts to use them up!
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Lanolin Substitutes for Vegan Crafters
Looking for lanolin substitutes? Me too! I did a little bit of digging and found few different options. Let’s look at their merits and see what’s the best lanolin alternative.
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20 DIY Kids’ Art Supplies
Check out these tutorials for tons of DIY art supplies that your kids are going to enjoy creating with.
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25 DIY Scrapbook Supplies
Step away from the scrapbooking aisle!
You don’t need those over-priced, store-bought supplies, not when you can make your own so easily, and from eco-friendly materials, too.
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How to Make Decorative Tape
Who needs washi tape when it’s this easy to make your own decorative tape?
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You Need a Palm Sander
Even when I watch reruns of Sherlock and mentally compose Wholock fanction while sanding, I still hate sanding.
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Spotted: Vintage Cabinet Makeover
How awesome is this dramatic before and after? Here’s how to turn a vintage cabinet from shabby chic to mid-century modern cool.
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15 Mason Jar Lid Crafts
We craft with mason jars all the time, but what about those lonely lids? Use them up with these fun mason jar lid crafts!
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Spotted: Playing Card Stencils from Bare Branch Blooming
Check out the brilliant project that Bare Branch Blooming creates using old playing cards: she turns them into re-usable stencils.
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Product Review: Zinsser Bulls Eye Zero Primer
It feels AWESOME to buy something that’s eco-friendly AND that performs perfectly while looking even better than the conventional stuff.
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Card Catalogue into Studio Storage
I LOVED my antique card catalogue from the second that I saw it in my local university’s surplus store, but I have to admit that it did look pretty janky.
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3D Printing: How green is it?
Is 3D printing really green? What if the plastic you used was recycled?
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25 Wine Cork Projects to Bust Your Stash
Got a stash of wine corks in a kitchen drawer? Whether you’ve got a few corks or a huge bag of them, we’ve got wine cork projects for everyone.
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Crafts that Use Paint Chips? Choose Something Else!
Paint chip crafts are SO cute that it’s hard to remember that crafting with paint chips is not actually “upcycling.”
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Spotted: How to Stain Wood with Kool-Aid
Wood stains are expensive and pretty toxic Check out how to stain wood using Kool-Aid instead!
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30 Free Clothing Patterns and Tutorials for Big Kids
Big kids can be harder to sew for.
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Olympic Paint Review: Zero VOC Paint + Primer
Olympic Paint makes a zero-VOC self-priming paint, but how does it stack up? Check out our review!
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Is Cassette Tape Knitting Safe?
We got a great reader question about cassette tape knitting that I’ve been researching. Let’s take a look at how safe it is to craft with the tape part of old cassettes.
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