Easter Crafts: Make Chalkboard Place Cards!
Searching for last minute Easter crafts? Make these simple chalkboard place cards!
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Herb Spiral: Turn old bricks into a sweet vertical planter!
Garden Week is going strong, you guys! Today I’m excited to share how to build one of my favorite features from my own back yard: our herb spiral.
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How to Propagate the Inch Plant: It’s Super Easy!
If you’ve got a grown-up wandering Jew, some extra pots, and good potting soil, then you’ve got yourself another six to a dozen wandering Jews right there for the taking.
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Printable Cupcake Toppers for your Superhero Party
I talked last week about the awesome superhero birthday party that we threw for my son and shared how to make cute superhero capes from recycled felt. Today I’m going to share another superhero birthday party craft: printable cupcake toppers!
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Cool Math Games: DIY Multiplication Touch
Got a kid who’s learning her multiplication facts?
Forget the flash cards! Instead, build this cool math game to play with your kids.
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DIY Storage Ideas: Turn an Old Cigar Box into a Keepsake Box
You don’t have to buy storage boxes from big box stores! DIY storage ideas are so much fun to create and will save you tons of money!
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Homemade All Purpose Cleaner (with a printable label!)
Other all purpose cleaners can have harsh chemicals and other harmful ingredients — try our homemade all purpose cleaner that only requires a few ingredients!
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Homemade Soft Scrub Recipe
Soft scrubs are great at scouring off grime, but they often use harmful chemicals to do it. This homemade soft scrub recipe is effective, all natural, and inexpensive to make.
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Homemade Cleaning Wipes to Disinfect Naturally
Prepackaged disinfecting wipes are full of toxic chemicals. Disinfect naturally with these homemade cleaning wipes that cost a fraction of the price!
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Homemade Wood Polish with Only Two Ingredients
Store-bought furniture polish may make your wood table look beautiful, but the chemicals in it are skin, eye, and airway irritants, and it may be aerosol-based or contain petroleum byproducts.
Seriously, you don’t want to rub something like that onto the table where you eat.
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St. Patrick’s Day Crafts: DIY Embroidery Hoop Wreath
March is right around the corner! It’s time for St. Patrick’s Day crafts like a DIY embroidery hoop wreath!
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How to Make Gift Tags from Junk Mail Envelopes
Need to wrap a cute gift in a hurry? Here’s how to make gift tags out of junk mail security envelopes in under 10 minutes.
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How to Sew Knit Fabric with the Tissue Paper Method
Do you have warping and stretching problems when you’re sewing jersey? Here’s how to sew knit fabric with a simple stabilizing trick!
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38 Clothing Refashion Tutorials to Upcycle Your Wardrobe
Tired of your boring old clothes?
Turn them into new clothes!
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Baby Game: Recycled Water Bottle Sensory Play
This is a fun baby game that you can make with an old water bottle and other materials from your stash!
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Valentine’s Day Ideas: Turn an Oatmeal Container into an Eco-Friendly Gift Box
Valentine’s Day ideas don’t have to be expensive– turn trash into treasure by making an oatmeal container into an eco-friendly gift box.
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How to Make Chalkboard Art from an Old Candy Box
Make unique chalkboard art by recycling old candy boxes from Valentine’s Day!
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DIY Crafts: Recycle Gift Cards into Unique Keychains
Add color and fun to your keys with DIY crafts like this step by step tutorial on how to recycle gift cards into unique keychains!
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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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Handmade Reviews: Stashbuster Catnip Mice from Crafty Creatures
You DO love your kitties, though, right?
You DO want them to have the bestest, cutest, most catnip-filled mice that human hands can make, right?
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Reduce, Reuse, Redecorate: Card Catalogue Photo Drawer
We needed a way to store and display our family photos.
We own an antique card catalogue.
We combined the two, and came up with a card catalogue photo drawer, an accessible, out-of-the-way, organized, dust-free way to store photos.
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Valentines Day Card from an Old Manila Folder
Got some old folders in your stash? You can use them to make a sweet Valentines Day card!
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Make Infused Vinegar for Good-Smelling Green Cleaning
This DIY infused vinegar isn’t for pouring onto your salads. It’s for making DIY cleaning supplies that actually smell good for once!
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Valentine’s Day Crafts: Heart-Shaped Dessert Toppers
These sweet dessert toppers are simple Valentine’s Day crafts that come together in a flash!
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How to Make Seed Bombs
We recently shared an article on extreme seed bombs that you fire out of a shotgun. A couple of folks have asked about how to make seed bombs with a little bit less firepower, and it reminded me about the article below that I wrote back in 2008 for Ecolocalizer. It’s a simple seed bomb recipe, no shotgun shells required.
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Christmas Card Crafts: Make Covered Clothespins!
Are there some holiday cards on your mantle that you can’t bear to part with? Turn them into a decorative keepsake by using them to make covered clothespins!
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Rosemary Lemonade Bath Salts to Melt Away Holiday Stress (plus free printable label!)
I made these homemade bath salts as Christmas gifts and saved a little extra for myself!
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Holiday Crafts: Chalkboard Gift Wrap
Got a few last-minute Christmas gifts to wrap?
Don’t stress out about cute wrapping paper, matching bows, and festive tags. If you’ve got some chalk and a little creativity, you’ve got almost everything you need to create a nicely-wrapped present with chalk art embellishments.
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Holiday Crafts: Filled Christmas Ornaments
Got some teeny-tiny treasures?
Some scrap craft supplies?
How about just some of the colored sand or rice or pony beads that your kids play with?
If you do (and you totally do!), then you’ve got almost all the makings for an easy, special, stash-busting Christmas ornament craft.
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DIY Christmas Ornaments: Fabric Scrap Pom Pom
You can use a simple pom pom-making technique to turn your fabric scraps into sweet DIY Christmas ornaments!
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Tutorial + How-to: Clean and Polish the Metal Sled Runners on a Vintage Wooden Sled
Your kid’s vintage wooden sled is way more awesome than those new-fangled plastic ones.
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Tutorial + How-to: Upcycled Beaded Ornament Hangers
You can never have enough ornament hangers!
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Jewelry Findings: Make an Earring Backing from a Wine Cork
Lost an earring backing? Here’s how you can replace these sneaky jewelry findings in just a few minutes!
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Tutorial + How-to: Brown Paper Bag Travel Journal
You don’t want to forget all the wonderful memories that you made on your vacation, do you?
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Tutorial + How-to: Personalized Scrabble Tile Greeting Cards
Everyone loves to receive a handmade card.
That handmade card is even more beloved when it’s personalized.
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Holiday Crafts: Leaf-Carved Pumpkin
Fortunately, the kiddos were perfectly happy with my suggestion that we carve the pumpkins into something appropriate for Thanksgiving, not Halloween, and that’s how we ended up with our leaf-carved pumpkins. They’re festive without being spooky, use real leaves as stencils, and are, thankfully, just as fun to carve as Jack-o-lanterns are.
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