Handmade Reviews: DIY Disinfecting Wipes from Homemade Cleaners
It’s not right that I have to drench my house in toxic chemicals just to keep the puke bug away.
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Tutorial + How-to: DIY Award Ribbons
Winning is fun.
Make it even more fun by adding swag!
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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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Handmade Reviews: Rustic Chic Wedding, by Morgann Hill
Want an eco-friendly wedding with plenty of handmade components, but you don’t necessarily want it to *look* like it was cobbled together by a gang of amateur crafters?
Rustic chic is the look that you’re looking for. A rustic chic wedding emphasizes vintage and natural materials, and a simplicity of construction that both makes the projects more do-able, and keeps them from looking overdone. With rustic chic’s additional emphasis on salvaged, one of a kind components over mass-produced commodities, it’s also a look that works well with modest budgets.
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Clothing + Fashion: The 14 Best Ways to Patch Jeans
Hole in your pants?
You can fix that.
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Clothing + Fashion: How to Patch Your Pants
Why is there a hole in the butt of my jeans?
Why did I sew a dinosaur patch over that hole in the butt of my jeans?
These are questions that you probably shouldn’t ask, and that you definitely do NOT want the answer to.
What you DO need to know is how I did it, and that’s what I’m going to tell you!
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Weddings + Showers: 18 Eco-Friendly DIY Wedding Bouquets and Flowers
Worried about the ethics of the floral trade?
Struggling to find organically-grown, fair trade cut flowers?
You may want to skip the politics altogether, and simply make your own bouquet and other floral pieces for your wedding. You’ll invest more time in the process, definitely, but you’ll definitely save money, and your wedding will be all the greener for it.
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Made Buy Hand: Who Won Some Candy?
Was it just luck?
Or, does the winner of the Make Your own Candy kit from Glee Gum just somehow love candy more than the rest of us?
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DIY Home + Garden: DIY Prepper Projects that You Can Use Now
I’ll be honest: for years, I never considered the survivalist/prepper crowds as target audiences. I mean, we’re on totally different ideological wavelengths, right? I’m not into shooting things, and they likely think I’m a touchy-feely hippie…
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Made Buy Hand: Win a Make Your own Candy Kit from Glee Gum
1) Want to eat candy made from sustainably raised ingredients harvested in fair trade environments?
2) Want to make that candy yourself?
3) Are you feeling lucky?
If you answered YES to the three questions above, then this is the giveaway for you!
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Handmade Reviews: The Make Your own Chocolate Kit from Glee Gum (and a Giveaway!)
Ever wondered if you could make your own chocolate?
You totally can!
It turns out that chocolate is a pretty do-able DIY project, and easy to customize with your own mix-ins and flavor combinations. Never had a peanut butter/sesame seed/dried cranberry chocolate bar? Well, now’s the time to make that happen.
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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: The 2013 Upcycled CD Wish List Ornament (with Free Printable Template!)
Want a way to preserve the memory of what your child wants most for Christmas this year?
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Holiday Crafts: Christmas Tree T-shirt with Vintage Button Ornaments
One of your kid’s T-shirts (at least!) has a mystery stain that nothing will remove.
Here’s an easy way to make that gross shirt look brand-new, completely concealing that ugly stain while adding an adorable festive motif! All you need are fabric paints, vintage buttons, and a creative kid to do the art.
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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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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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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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DIY Natural Toys: Art Dice from Building Blocks
What else can your kid do with her old, outgrown building blocks?
She can draw with them!
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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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Crafts for Kids: Decoupaged Building Blocks
My kiddo used to be over her building blocks. Whereas she once spent hours building entire wooden cities, she’s into superheroes now. So I made these outdated toys brand-new again, kicked her building block play back into high gear, and totally thrilled the socks off of her just by decoupaging comic book images onto some of her blocks.
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Reduce, Reuse, Redecorate: Vintage Doorknob Jewelry Holder
Vintage doorknobs make beautiful jewelry holders.
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Tutorial + How-to: Make Origami Waterproof with Beeswax
‘Tis the season for making origami Mayflowers!
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Handmade Reviews: Uncommon Cards
You don’t need a store-bought, factory-made greeting card.
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Clothing + Fashion: How to Shorten Bra Straps
I’m really short, y’all.
And I have really big breasts.
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Holiday Crafts: Thanksgiving Pumpkin Crafts
There are TONS of fun Thanksgiving pumpkin crafts that will pacify a carve-happy kid and work for Thanksgiving decorating, helping you avoid Halloween waste.
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Holiday Crafts: Make a Harry Potter Wizard Hat
Your favorite wizard in training needs a hat, and it’s up to you, their favorite Muggle, to help them make one!
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DIY Home + Garden: Comic Book Wallpaper
Check out my small wall makeover that I did in one afternoon with nothing but comic books and Mod Podge. It adds a LOT of personality to a little bit of square footage!
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Tutorial + How-to: Make Zipper Pulls from Vintage Medals
Grab up a handful of old award medals, some vintage jewelry, and some pliers, and check out how to replace your janky zipper pulls with these excellent, sturdy, striking zipper pulls made from vintage medals.
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Back to School Ideas: A Project Display Board from Upcycled Cardboard
Make the Science Fair (or the Biography Fair, or the International Fair…) slightly less of a pain in the butt, AND save yourself a trip to the store to buy a cardboard or foam core display board, because crafting your own display board out of upcycled cardboard is so easy!
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Tutorial + How-to: Upcycled Glass Jar and Tissue Paper Luminaries
Gently glowing, flickering luminaries are a beautiful sight in the evening.
They’re also an excellent, easy kid’s craft. Using any old glass jar as a base, kids will LOVE pasting colorful tissue paper squares to make pretty pictures, and they’ll be thrilled to see how gorgeous their creations look that night, with a lit candle inside to start the magic.
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Handmade Reviews: Boo Bottles from InstaCraft
Looking for a quick craft? A cute craft? A kid-friendly craft?
InstaCraft, given to me by Ulysses Press, has become my kiddos’ and my go-to reference when we’re looking for something fast and easy to fill up a Sunday morning or a rainy afternoon with a little color.
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Tutorial + How-to: Make Homemade Dehydrated Nut and Seed Crackers
These homemade dehydrated crackers are delicious. They’re made entirely of seeds and nuts, so they’re SO good for you. They’re vegan and raw, if you’re into that. And my kid there ate an entire tray of them this morning for Second Breakfast, so they’re a hit with the small, fussy ones, too.
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Holiday Crafts: Halloween Crafts Made from Recycled Materials
Want an eco-friendly Halloween? This is the place to be, and now is the time to start!
Check out these green Halloween projects, all of which are made using recycled materials. Whether you’re looking for costumes or decorations, we’ve got you covered.
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Tutorial + How-to: Make Scrabble Tile Pendants
Scrabble tile pendants are easy to make. All you need are a couple of kinds of strong glue, a little paint, some wonderful vintage papers, and a jewelry bail. Here’s how to whip them out in a day.
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