How-To: Candy Corn Vases
Its candy corn season again, and Alexa of The Swell Life has a quick and easy tutorial for making these fun candy corn vases to compliment your Fall decor. It’s a great way to upcycle glass bottles!
Holiday Projects
How-To: Embroidery Hoop Halloween Wreath
The spooky season is almost upon us, and Sarah from The Thriftress is definitely in the spirit. Her Lace Spider Web Wreath tutorial is made entirely out of supplies that most crafters will already have on hand, plus a few seasonal dollar store finds. Because you can take the basic wreath-and-lace design in so many […]
How-To: Chalkboard Book
Here’s a fun way to transform an old board book into a new, fun interactive toy for your child. Regina of Creative Kismet shares how to make a chalkboard book over on Whip-Up.
Contraceptive Couture
The creative team of Pharmacopoeia, headed by textile artist Susie Freeman, re-purpose medications and their wrappings into beautiful pieces of art and fashion. This couture ballgown is made from enough birth control pills to last a woman 22 years.
How-To: Custom Travel Crafting Suitcase
As I was running around this week trying to get ready to fly from New York to LA, one of my biggest problems was deciding which projects to bring and how to pack them in a way that wouldn’t result in a tangled mess of embroidery floss and crochet hooks. I eventually settled on a […]
Earrings from Pill-Package Foil
I always like poking through the foil of a pill container – you know the ones: molded plastic on one side with individual indentations for each pill, and a layer of foil on top. The foil is nice and pliable, but I’d never thought of making anything out of it. These pill-package foil earrings are […]
Flashlight From a Cereal Box and Soda Can
Recycle a cereal box and a soda can and what do you get? At Instructables Paul Em shows us how to turn these throwaways into slick travel-size flashlights. Of course you’ll need a short list of other materials, including a light bulb and AA batteries, but most of what you’ll need Paul says you can […]