HOW TO – Paint Your Shoes
Mutantcarrot posted instructions on Cut Out + Keep on how to mod your shoes by painting them. Give your old shoes new life with a paint job. For more shoe mod ideas, check out Craft Volume 07.
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Armoire Revamp
Craftster user Olga turned one of those generic-looking garage organizer units into a glossy, sophisticated armoire. What an amazing transformation!
Cardboard Button Felt Flowers
Megan at Plum Pudding shows you how to make these easy cardboard button felt flowers. A fun and easy recycle project to make with kids!
Wool-Ease Web
I love the spiderweb-shaped trellis Green Kitchen created for her snap peas to grow on! It’s made from Wool-Ease yarn and is very Charlotte’s Web.
Microfiche Earrings
Buckett from In the Buckett blog conducted a little craft experiment with microfiche. He made earrings out of microfiche in the shape of space invaders and Tetris blocks. Boy, I remember when microfiche was as high tech as a library got.
Dance dance make-olution
These custom built dance pads cost under $2 USD a tile and can be hooked up to almost any console systen you can think of. This maker connected them up to his computer and the booty shaking title “StepMania”. Check out the detailed instructions at the link below. A Pair of Homemade Dance Pads
Hand-Painted Wallpaper
I was looking for some info on wallpaper and came across this post on Apartment Therapy about a man named Curtis who hand-painted a wallpaper design all over his kitchen walls. The design inspiration came from a swatch he spotted in a vintage Montgomery Ward sample book. I’m not sure I have his patience, but […]