How to Drill through Glass
Drilling through glass isn’t as hard as it looks, and it’s a specific skill that is honestly pretty amazing to have.
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DIY: Upcycle Old Towels into a New Bath Mat
I cut up several old towels to piece together a cute applique mushroom, quilted it onto a couple other old towels, and now have a brand-new custom bath mat that the kids and I are delighted with.
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How to Remove Wax from Fabric: Two Methods
It’s possible to remove most candle wax from most fabric, even if your candle wax is highly pigmented, and even if your fabric is precious and delicate.
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DIY Upcycled Glass Bottle Bottom Ring Holders
These glass bottle bottom ring holders are quick and easy to make, and don’t require any additional supplies other than several grits of sandpaper.
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Make an Easy Drawstring Gift Bag with This Free Pattern
A drawstring bag is a terrific go-to when you’re thinking about sustainable gift packaging. It’s customizable, re-usable, and easy to put to a huge number of alternate uses.
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DIY Wall-Mounted Cardboard Box Shelves
The solution for displaying your favorite treasures is that cardboard box hanging out in your recycling bin!
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Crafty Christmas: Make Altered Playing Card Ornaments
Homemade Christmas tree ornaments are my favorite holiday decoration. Every year, my kids and I add more handmade ornaments to our collection and I cull a couple more store-bought ornaments. My ultimate goal is to have a Christmas tree so bedazzled that you can barely see its branches, with nary a store-bought ornament in sight.
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How to Transform Wicker Baskets with Paint
Painting a wicker basket is a super quick project that makes a big change in the overall look of your room. And when you get tired of your current color scheme, repainting that basket is just as quick and easy!
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How to Darn a Sock
A well-made sock can stand up to a lot of wear, and when a hole does finally work its way through, then you can darn that sock to make it even better than it was when it was new.
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Make a Homemade Scratch-Off Card for an Experience Gift
A scratch-off card is a really fun way to present all kinds of experience gifts or fun activities. Everybody loves a scratch-off, and it adds an element of surprise that makes an already great gift even better.
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Off-the-Grid Cooking Hack: Make a Tin Can Stove
You can DIY cooking equipment every bit as good from two tin cans, a cardboard box, and candlewax.
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How to Restore a Fuzzy Blanket with a Dog Brush and Elbow Grease
Dog brushes brush the mats out of both dog fur AND fuzzy blankets!
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How to Clean and Refurbish Antique Door Hardware
I don’t have any kind of yearning to restore my wonky old house to its original condition, but it would be pretty cool to clean and refurbish just those antique door fixtures, just to see what they actually look like.
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How to Make a Broken Dish Pendant
It’s easier than you think to cut ceramics with a couple of standard tools, and there are loads of ways to finish off the pendant to your taste.
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How to Design and Create a Wood Star from Scratch
No matter how big you want your star to be, or how many points you want it to have, you can make the pattern for it completely from scratch, and the assembly is the same no matter which type you create.
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How to Sew a Button Back on Your Pants
Fortunately, sewing a button back on your pants is a super easy and low-fuss skill that requires only a basic amount of hand-eye coordination. Anyone can do it!
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Sew an Easy Strip Quilt from Upcycled Denim
Denim quilts are about the warmest, snuggliest quilts you’ll ever nap under.
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How To Make A Wood Burned Stick Plant Marker
My favorite plant markers are the simplest ones you could make–they’re just wood burned sticks!
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30 Free Star Quilt Patterns
Here are some of my favorite, free star quilt patterns online.
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How to Make a Corrugated Cardboard Cat Scratcher: Two Tutorials!
Corrugated cardboard, sliced and stacked edges out, has a texture that cats adore, and they really will use them, play with them, and sharpen their claws on them!
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How To Add A Zippered Top To A Tote Bag
Because you don’t want your stuff to fall out!
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Make A Steampunk Snowman From Upcycled Gears
Here, I’m modding a steampunk snowman using the wooden gears from a child’s old DIY marble coaster kit and some wire pulled out of an analog clock.
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I Made A Jewelry Organizer From A Vintage BINGO Game
I turned the vintage BINGO board into a jewelry organizer. It was a quick and easy project and it turned out great.
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How to Dry Flowers in the Microwave
You likely have everything that you need to dry flowers already in your house.
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How To Make A DIY Weighted Blanket
It takes some fiddly work and some sewing prowess, but it’s completely possible to DIY your own weighted blanket, and to do so using natural and/or sustainably-sourced materials.
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How To Sew a Patch
Go get all those band patches back on your denim jacket where they belong!
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Turn An Old Blender Into A Planter
I did what I do with every single even vaguely container-shaped piece of junk that needs a second life around here–I turned it into a planter!
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How To Sew a Nine-Patch Quilt for an American Girl Doll
A nine-patch quilt is the easiest type of quilt to sew.
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How to Make a Shadow Box from Corrugated Cardboard
Storing your little treasures nicely is as easy as arranging them in a shadow box, and making that shadow box is as easy as cutting and pasting.
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How to Remove Wax from A Candle Jar
Reclaim the was from jar candles and reuse it to make more crafts!
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How To Make Stamped Clay Seed Bombs
Done properly, and distributed carefully, seed bombs CAN work
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How To Do String Art
I’m going to show you how to make string art the completely DIY way–from scratch, by hand. It’s going to be awesome.
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How to Make Mason Jar Lid Ring Christmas Ornaments
hese Mason jar lid ring Christmas ornaments look a lot harder to make than they are.
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How to Make a Bean Bag Chicken
These cute chickens make great little gifts, and since you can sew them up quickly completely from scraps, no two are alike!
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