Make a Giant Upcycled Cardboard Minecraft Grass Block Party Invitation
Why, yes, this IS an oddly specific tutorial that I’m writing here.
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15 Creative, Kid-Friendly Garden Ideas
There are ways to get kids into the garden without destroying your entire strawberry harvest.
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A Refashioned Dress from a Graduation Gown and Formal Dresses
Every year since she was four, my younger daughter designs an outfit, I create it from thrifted and discarded clothing and other fabrics, and then she models it on the runway at our town’s annual Trashion/Refashion Show.
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11 Upcycled Garden Decorations
Bling your garden without breaking your budget or adding anything new to the waste stream with these upcycled garden decorations. Weekend project, anyone?
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Handmade Review: Gardening on a Shoestring
Gardening can actually be kind of expensive, considering that you’re supposed to be saving money on grocery stores and florists by growing your own organic produce and flowers.
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How to Replace a Button on a Button-Down Shirt
Even if you can’t sew, you can sew this.
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13 More Wholesome Homemade Popsicle Recipes
Here are some of our favorite popsicle recipes. Most of them work well with the homemade popsicle bar that we like to put together, some are recipes that you can set aside to surprise them with, and some are just for adults!
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Host a Wholesome Homemade Popsicle Bar
If you, like I, would rather mix up your own hipster popsicles in the comfort and privacy of your own home, then have I got a treat for you!
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Artist Trading Blocks are a Thing, and I LOVE Them!
Why, oh why, has no one told me that Artist Trading Blocks are a THING?!?
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12 Beautiful Ways to Display Vintage Photographs
Don’t be afraid to display your vintage photographs!
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How to Display Vintage Photographs
If you truly want to display your actual vintage photographs, then I say go ahead!
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A Review of Homeward Bound: Does Domesticity Kill Political Activism?
Are there still sweatshops because the people who should be forcing companies to change are instead spending their time hitting the thrift stores, sewing their kids clothes using organic cotton, and buying boutique-style outfits off of etsy?
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The Magic Yarn Project Makes Kids with Cancer into Princesses
The Magic Yarn Project makes the lives of kids with cancer better, one yarn princess wig at a time.
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Freezer Paper Stencil an Old Shirt
I have an unwritten rule for my kids that whenever I mend something for them, I also add something new to make that thing a little cuter.
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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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Sewing for Tweens: The Chambray Dress from Handmade Style
Sewing for big kids, however? It’s a whole new pastime, and it isn’t necessarily for the beginner, nor the faint of heart.
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Crafty Review: The Singer 2277 Sewing Machine
You know that kind of sewing machine that I’m talking about. Maybe it’s got a ton of fancy stitch settings. Maybe you just press a button and boom, it hems your skirt. Maybe it does some cute embroidery while it’s at it.
And yeah, maybe it costs a thousand bucks.
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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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How to Make a No-Sew Puppy Ears Headband
To be a dog, all you REALLY need are puppy ears.
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The Invasive Paper Project: Papermaking with Invasive Plants
Is it kudzu that is the menace where you live, or is it honeysuckle?
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11 Upcycled Greeting Cards
Whether you’re an avid scrapbooker or a total novice, there is 100% an upcycled greeting card that you will love to make in the list below.
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Crafty Book Review: Upcycled Collage Greeting Cards from The Complete Photo Guide to Cardmaking
When has being bad at something ever stopped me from doing that thing?
Um…. NEVER!!!
Project Show-and-Tell: The Star Wars T-Shirt Quilt that Took Four Years to Make
I can’t wait to see what I’m going to accomplish in another four years!
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Spotted: Paper Fortune Cookies from Unsophisticook, and 4 other Stash-Busting Valentines
We have a homemade valentine rule in our house.
I mean, obviously.
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How to Make a Girl Scout Cookie Box Bunting
It’s a cute and colorful decoration for a kid, especially if she’s a Girl Scout, and it’s an excellent one for a Girl Scout cookie booth, as it shows off all the different types of cookies that are on offer.
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How to Mend a Rip in the Thigh of Your Jeans
Thigh rips in jeans are the nemesis of anyone who has thighs.
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How to Make an Upcycled Cross Stitch Bookmark
There are a lot of interesting, easy, and useful ways to upcycle cross stitched pieces, but one of the most interesting, easiest, and most useful is the cross stitch bookmark.
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Crafty Book Review: Upcycled Porch Star from Crafting with Wood Pallets
It’s not your fault that a tree gave its life to make that wood pallet, and by crafting with it, especially if you’re sourcing it from a store that’s just trashing them, then you’re actually diverting that wood from the waste stream.
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How to Make a Sachet: 21 Projects
I’m not saying that your home is smelly.
But… it could smell nicer, couldn’t it?
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What to Do with a Vintage Flour Sack: 13 Projects
Vintage flour sacks are still fairly easy to obtain and not too spendy, but nevertheless quite lovely, and they make excellent crafting supplies.
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How to Make a Vintage Cornmeal Sack Kitchen Sachet
Here’s a bit of kitchen decor that’s also useful–a vintage cornmeal sack that’s secretly a sachet!
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How to Replace the Elastic in Elastic-Waist Pants
Elastic-waist pants are the easiest to modify, of course, since the absolute only thing that you have to do is swap out that elastic.
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Be a Part of the You are So Very Beautiful Project
You are loved. You are enough. You are so very bright.
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