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: Crayon Wands
Got broken crayon bits, but the last thing that you need is to make MORE crayons with them?
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25 Furniture Refinishing Skills that You Need to Know
Here’s a list of the 25 most important furniture refinishing skills, the ones that will get you safely and happily through the most makeover projects–and, most importantly, here’s how to do them correctly!
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My Antique Shipping Box Fabric Bin
Our new house came with a magical garage.
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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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Sponsored Post: KLEE girls Kids’ Makeup from Luna Star Naturals
So, yeah. I let my eight-year-old daughter wear make-up whenever she wants.
Continue reading whenever you’ve finished giving me the side-eye.
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Easy Furniture Refinishing: Paint a Dresser
Painting is about the easiest way to refinish a piece of furniture, especially if it’s got some laminate parts. It’s not terribly tricky, either, and the most time-intensive part of it is waiting for various pieces to dry.
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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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Can You Irrigate Your Garden with Diaper Water? Greywater Resources
Would you eat persimmons from a tree that has been irrigated with greywater from the washing machine where you wash poopy cloth diapers?
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Knitter Arrested During “Knit-in” against Natural Gas Pipeline Expansion
One woman found her peaceful “Knit-in” demonstration abruptly ended by her arrest on July 2.
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Spotted: Plastic Bottle Greenhouse
Check out the plastic bottle greenhouse that kids in Scotland built out of approximately 1,500 2-liter bottles!
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15 Birthday Gifts that a Kid Can Make
Need a present for a kid’s birthday party?
Skip the mall, and let your kids make their own gifts to give to their friends. The hands-on problem-solving is good for them, and putting real time and effort into a gift (not just your money) is a good lesson on friendship.
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How-to: Kid-Built Pipe Sword
Your kid probably wants a sword.
Now, whether YOU want her to have a sword is a totally different question, but your kid? Probably wants a sword.
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Kid-Built Scrap Wood Stomp Catapult
You’ve got some scrap wood in your garage, yeah?
Hand that wood over to the kids, because they’ve got a stomp catapult to build!
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Spotted: 4th of July Waldorf Window Star
Frontier Dreams uses the same kite paper and origami folding techniques of traditional Waldorf window stars to make these themed 4th of July ones.
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Little Kid’s Little Free Library? Not in Leawood, Kansas!
The city of Leawood, Kansas, taught one little kid a very important lesson about local government this month:
That it sucks.
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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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Pajamas from a Vintage Sheet: The Dr. Seuss Project
Vintage sheets are my favorite fabric to sew. You can get them on the cheap, they’re super soft after having been washed a billion times, and the novelty prints immediately whisk me back to my own childhood and all the pop culture stuff that I was into that’s still really cool now (says I!).
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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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Spotted: Scrap Fabric Teepee from Twig and Toadstool
If you’d like a lovely outdoor space to relax in, or to let your kids play in, all summer and beyond, check out this scrap fabric teepee from Twig and Toadstool.
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15 DIY Packed Lunch Storage Solutions
It’s definitely worthwhile to spend the money on a few high-quality packed lunch supplies (my Klean Kanteen is practically an extension of my hand), but you’ll be surprised at how many packed lunch storage solutions you can craft for yourself from eco-friendly supplies, whether they be natural or upcycled.
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DIY Re-usable Lunch Bags from Makery, by Kate Smith
I don’t know where our lunch bags go. Do you?
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Spotted: Summer Pajamas from The Mother Huddle
Does flame retardant bother you, too? If so, what do you do about your kids’ pajamas?
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How to Break Down Jeans for Crafting and Storage
There are a lot of uses for old blue jeans, but rarely for every single part of the jean. If you know what you like to make (quilts for me, purses and skirts for you, perhaps?), then you’ll find that you can make your old blue jean storage much more neat and efficient, as well as space saving, by cutting the jeans up very carefully, just so, and storing them in their parts.
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Digital Design for Green Crafting: Dassault Systems
The techy, geeky part of me has long also been interested in how technology can help us out with removing stuff from the waste stream–there are only so many scrap fabric patchwork quilts that one human can make in her lifetime, you know?
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Broken Coffee Mug Planters (and How to Propagate Rosemary)
Store-bought plastic plant pots offend me for some reason.
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Upcycle Old Sports Gear: 35 Projects from Used Athletic Equipment
Instead of tossing your used sports equipment, keep it useful by turning into one of these creations.
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Kid Craft: Tennis Racket Butterfly Net
Instead of tossing that racket with the broken strings, or making your kid continue to play with a bad racket, buy your kid a new tennis racket that they PROMISE to treat right and let them use the old one to make themselves a butterfly net.
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20 DIY Animal Houses and Habitats
Animals both big and small, tame and wild, will appreciate these handmade animal houses, all made from eco-friendly upcycled or natural materials.
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Kid Craft: Make a DIY Bug Barn from a Mason Jar
Let your kid make herself her very own bug barn using this simple tutorial.
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The Upcycled House: 20 Home Design Projects Made from Recycled Materials
But you don’t want that mass-produced, consumer-culture nonsense all over your house, anyway, not when there are so many unique projects that you can undertake, all utilizing upcycled or recycled materials.
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How-to: Make Recycled Crayons
Save your broken crayons, and use them to make fun, new recycled crayons that will thrill the kids.
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35 Wool Sweater Crafts
Get yourself a selection of unwanted wool sweaters from the thrift store or from the closets of indulgent friends, and then check out my massive collection of wool sweater crafts.
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Decorative Egg Cozies from So Jane
The Decorative Egg Cozies project uses scrap fabric and simple applique techniques to create a portable little warmer for the soft-boiled egg, a popular Victorian-era breakfast.
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